Clinical Research Coordinator - Ophthalmology Full Time Bascom Palmer Eye InstitutePalm Beach Gardens, FL

University of Miami; Florida; On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Tuition remission

Job summary

University of Miami’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, is seeking a Clinical Research Coordinator 2 for a full-time staff position. The role supports planning, coordinating, and monitoring clinical studies to ensure participant safety and protocol adherence.

The coordinator will assist in participant recruitment, data collection, specimen handling, regulatory filings, and communication with sponsors and investigators, under supervision of the Principal Investigator.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field required.
• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience required.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills required.

Responsibilities

• Assist in participant recruitment and retention activities and screening for eligibility.
• Perform study procedures, routine tests, data collection, and day-to-day operations of moderate risk protocols.
• Collect, process, package, and ship specimens according to protocol and regulations.
• Maintain study binders and regulatory filings per protocol and policies.
• Distribute study materials per approved procedures and delegated authority.
• Monitor, document, and report adverse events and protocol deviations.
• Assist with protocol amendments under supervision of the Principal Investigator.
• Support study orientation and in-services for the research team and clinical staff.
• Monitor study progress and communicate updates to investigators as required.
• Coordinate communications with sponsors, data coordinating centers, and regulatory bodies.
• Contribute to training, competency documentation, and safety education.

Skills

Learning agility

Teamwork

Technical proficiency

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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The University of Miami, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, has an exciting full time opportunity for a Clinical Research Coordinator 2 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

The Clinical Research Coordinator 2 serves as a mid-level clinical research professional that assists in the planning, coordinating, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating of specific clinical research studies. This role assists in the day-to-day operations of clinical research protocol implementation and carries out study coordination duties from protocol initiation to study close-out according to regulatory/sponsor guidelines. The incumbent works closely with study team members and other staff/faculty/study sites to ensure study participant safety and adherence to approved protocols, help with study-related administrative tasks, facilitate across-the-board flow of information, and coordinate study activities and personnel.

CORE JOB FUNCTIONS

• Assists in participant recruitment and retention activities and assists in screening potential study participants for eligibility.
• Performs study procedures, routine tests, data collection/recording, and daily operations of moderate risk clinical research protocols.
• Collects, processes, packs, and ships specimens according to protocol, applicable standards and regulations.
• Maintains study binders and filings according to protocol requirements, UM and department policy.
• Distributes study drug materials according to practice standards and clinical credentials as delegated by the Principal Investigator.
• Monitors, documents, reports, and follows-up on study unanticipated/adverse events and protocol deviations.
• Assists in implementing protocol amendments under direct supervision of the Principal Investigator.
• Assists with study orientation and protocol related in-services to research team and clinical staff.
• Monitors protocol implementation and study progress; keeps investigators fully apprised of study progress; submits progress reports according to established schedule.
• Learns the research team and assists with communications/interactions with sponsor, data coordinating centers, compliance monitors, collaborators, investigators’ academic administrative personnel, and departments.
• Assists in administrative tasks of study personnel including orientation, documenting core competencies, certification mandates, safety/responsible conduct of research education, and performance reviews.
• Adheres to cultural competency guidelines; implements strategies to meet study participants’ needs for language translation, health literacy, etc.
• Follows the appropriate fundamental requirements of all international, national, and local regulatory bodies.
• Maintains requisite skills and mandatory training in safety, equality, responsible conduct of research, continuing education, and research competencies.
• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

Bachelor's degree in relevant field required

Experience:

Minimum 2 years of relevant experience required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Learning Agility: Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
• Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
• Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
• Communication: Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.

Department Specific Functions:

• Ability to handle multiple clinical trials with several principal investigators. Serves as back up study coordinator to other clinical trials.
• Obtains informed consent from patients/study participants and documents the process in alignment with policies and procedures.
• Recruits patients referred by physicians, schedules study appointments, prepares for and conducts study visits in the clinic.
• Processes and ships participant biological samples to central labs according to safety regulations.
• Collaborates with the research pharmacy to dispense study medication and maintain unmasked study records.
• Completes corrections/queries required at audits/monitor visits and takes action to correct deviations, as needed.
• Establishes/maintains contact with patients/participants, health care providers, community agencies, and study sponsors.
• Updates appropriate agencies (such as sponsors, IRB, etc.) regarding current status of research project.
• Provides in-service education to study team members about research protocols.
• Enters data into electronic data capture system within specified timelines and meets sponsor’s data lock deadlines.
• Maintains study regulatory files, including delegation of authority logs, training records, and sponsor correspondence. Maintains participant files, including informed consent forms, source documents, and participant compensation/reimbursement records.
• Establishes patient/participant screening procedures with Principal Investigator and obtains relevant medical information from patient clinic charts/medical records.
• Prepares and submits annual continuing reviews to the Institutional Review Board (IRB).
• Notifies IRB of protocol amendments, safety reports, and reportable information in compliance with applicable regulations.
• Implements research protocols and monitors participant and study team adherence.
• Invoices sponsor and performs study account reconciliation with the research administration team.
• Travels to sponsored Investigator Meetings out of state, as needed.
• Flexibility to travel to all Bascom Palmer Eye Institute sites, as needed

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

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Job Status:

Full time

Employee Type:

Staff