Clinical Research Project Lead

University of Texas at Austin; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin seeks a Research Project Manager to plan, coordinate, and oversee moderately complex research initiatives, ensuring scope, timeline, quality, compliance, and budget objectives.

This role interfaces with investigators, physicians, biostatisticians, regulatory staff, finance, and grants administration to translate scientific aims into executable plans across clinical and translational research programs.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains detailed project plans, timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
• Coordinates sequencing of tasks and dependencies across multidisciplinary teams.
• Tracks project progress against scope, schedule, and budget.
• Identifies and resolves execution issues that impact project outcomes.
• Ensures adherence to IRB requirements, institutional research governance, sponsor terms, and applicable federal, state, and funding-agency regulations.
• Coordinates protocol submissions, amendments, renewals, and project close-out activities.
• Maintains accurate and audit-ready project documentation.
• Partners with regulatory, compliance, and research integrity teams to address findings or issues.
• Serves as the primary liaison among investigators, research teams, and administrative partners.
• Facilitates project meetings, decision forums, and routine status reporting.
• Aligns stakeholders on priorities, risks, timelines, and resource needs.
• Escalates issues appropriately to leadership or sponsors.
• Develops and monitors project budgets and forecasts.
• Tracks expenditures, effort allocation, invoicing, and sponsor payments.
• Collaborates with finance and grants administration to ensure financial compliance.
• Identifies variances and recommends corrective actions.
• Identifies project risks and develops mitigation strategies.
• Implements quality control measures to support deliverable accuracy and integrity.
• Monitors performance indicators such as milestones, enrollment, reporting, or deliverables.
• Prepares projects for internal or external reviews and audits.
• Prepares project reports, dashboards, and leadership updates
• Develops standardized tools, templates, and workflows
• Contributes to continuous improvement of research project management practices

Job description

Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin seeks a Research Project Manager to plan, coordinate, and oversee moderately complex research initiatives, ensuring scope, timeline, quality, compliance, and budget objectives.

This role interfaces with investigators, physicians, biostatisticians, regulatory staff, finance, and grants administration to translate scientific aims into executable plans across clinical and translational research programs.