Clinical Research Coordinator (Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics)

UCLA Health; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

UCLA Health is seeking a Clinical Research Coordinator to support a growing portfolio of neuroscience and psychiatric studies at the UCLA Semel Institute/BGI Center. You will coordinate clinical research activities across UCLA and collaborating sites, manage REDCap databases, and support data and biospecimen management.

Responsibilities include regulatory documentation, IRB submissions, study reporting, and collaboration with investigators and international partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Neuroscience, Public Health, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Data Science, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum two years supporting clinical or human-subjects research.
• Experience with REDCap or similar electronic data capture systems.
• Strong data management, cleaning, validation, and dataset preparation skills.
• Knowledge of human subjects research and data security practices.
• Familiarity with R and/or Python.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Office apps.
• Ability to learn specialized research systems and platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to work with diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day operations for multiple clinical research studies and sites.
• Develop and maintain REDCap databases and study documentation.
• Monitor data quality, perform validation, and prepare research datasets and reports.
• Support biospecimen tracking, repository submissions, and shipment records reconciliation.
• Assist with regulatory documents, IRB submissions, and protocol compliance.
• Coordinate meetings and deliverables with investigators and collaborators.
• Assist with grants, manuscripts, presentations, and scientific reports.
• Learn and support REDCap, BTM, Azure, and repository-submission systems.

Skills

Data management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Project coordination

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Collaboration

Programming (R/Python)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Psychology/Neuroscience/Public Health/Biological Sciences/Data Science

Graduate-level training preferred

Tools

REDCap

Azure

Excel

Data repositories

Job description

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday 8am-5pm

Posted Date

10/08/2026

Salary Range: $38.19 - 61.45 Hourly

Employment Type

Duration

Indefinite

Job #

33347

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is seeking a Clinical Research Coordinator to support a growing portfolio of research studies focused on identifying the genetic and biological factors that contribute to psychiatric and neurological disorders. The Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics conducts innovative research aimed at advancing the understanding, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of brain and behavioral health conditions through multidisciplinary scientific collaboration.

In this role, you will coordinate clinical research activities across UCLA and collaborating domestic and international sites, support research data and biospecimen management, maintain study databases, and contribute to a variety of scientific and administrative research activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day operations for multiple clinical research studies and collaborating sites.
• Develop and maintain REDCap databases and study documentation, including user access, data dictionaries, validation rules, and project workflows.
• Monitor data quality, perform validation reviews, conduct data reconciliation activities, and prepare research datasets and reports.
• Support biospecimen tracking, sample quality control, repository submissions, and reconciliation of collection and shipment records.
• Assist with regulatory documentation, IRB submissions, protocol compliance activities, and study reporting requirements.
• Coordinate meetings, communications, and project deliverables with investigators, research staff, and domestic and international collaborators.
• Support preparation of grants, manuscripts, presentations, scientific reports, and other research materials.
• Learn and support specialized research systems and platforms, including REDCap, BTM, Azure, and repository-submission systems.

Salary range: $38.19/hr - $61.45/hr

Job Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Neuroscience, Public Health, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Data Science, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum two years of experience supporting clinical or human-subjects research.
• Experience with REDCap or similar electronic data capture systems, including project development, data dictionary creation, validation rules, database maintenance, user permissions, and data exports.
• Strong data management skills, including data cleaning, validation, quality control, reconciliation, and preparation of analysis-ready datasets.
• Working knowledge of human subjects research, research compliance requirements, confidentiality standards, and data security practices.
• Familiarity with basic programming/coding in R and/or Python.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.
• Ability to learn and support specialized research systems and platforms.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and attention-to-detail skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently in a fast-paced research environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with investigators, research staff, technical teams, and external partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate-level training in a scientific, public health, clinical research, quantitative, or related field.
• Experience supporting multi-site, international, biospecimen-based, or repository-related research studies.
• Experience preparing scientific reports, presentations, grant materials, manuscripts, or other scholarly work.
• Bilingual English/Spanish communication skills.

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer. Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.