Clinical Research Coordinator – Neurobehavioral Genetics

University of California - Los Angeles Health; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 53,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

The UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, part of UCLA Health, seeks a Clinical Research Coordinator to support studies on psychiatric and neurological disorders across UCLA and partner sites. You will manage data and biospecimens, maintain REDCap databases, and assist with regulatory documentation.

Responsibilities include coordinating day-to-day operations, ensuring data quality, tracking samples, and contributing to grants, manuscripts, and presentations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or 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 and data exports.
• Strong data management, cleaning, validation, and preparation of analysis-ready datasets.
• Knowledge of human subjects research, confidentiality, and data security practices.
• Familiarity with programming in R and/or Python.

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 and data dictionaries.
• Monitor data quality, validation reviews, data reconciliation, and prepare research datasets and reports.
• Support biospecimen tracking, sample quality control, and repository submissions.
• Assist with regulatory documentation, IRB submissions, protocol compliance, and study reporting.
• Coordinate meetings and communications with investigators and collaborators.
• Support preparation of grants, manuscripts, presentations, and other research materials.
• Learn and support REDCap, BTM, Azure, and repository-submission systems.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Project coordination

Data analysis

Team collaboration

Education

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

Tools

REDCap

Excel

Python

R

SQL

Job description

The UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, part of UCLA Health, seeks a Clinical Research Coordinator to support studies on psychiatric and neurological disorders across UCLA and partner sites. You will manage data and biospecimens, maintain REDCap databases, and assist with regulatory documentation.

Responsibilities include coordinating day-to-day operations, ensuring data quality, tracking samples, and contributing to grants, manuscripts, and presentations.