Clinical Research Site Manager (Neurology)

The Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore (MD); Remote; USD 57,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The Johns Hopkins University is seeking a Clinical Research Site Manager for the BIOS Clinical Trials Coordinating Center to oversee national multicenter trial execution. You will lead site startup, drive enrollment, manage investigator relationships, and ensure protocol implementation across a network of clinical sites.

Ideal candidates will show independence, strong operational leadership, and experienced site management across complex trials, with a focus on maintaining quality and timelines

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Five years of related experience delivering effective clinical research management solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage and coordinate multiple external clinical sites.

Responsibilities

• Oversee site startup and coordination across external clinical sites.
• Drive enrollment performance and ensure protocol implementation across sites.
• Manage investigator relationships and site performance to meet enrollment milestones.

Skills

Analytical

Attention to Detail

Clinical Study Design

Clinical Trials

Forecasting

Interpersonal Skills

Oral and Written Communications

Process Improvement

Project Management

Regulatory Compliance

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a related field

Job description

The Department of Neurology is seeking a Clinical Research Site Manager for the BIOS Clinical Trials Coordinating Center (BIOS CTCC). The Clinical Research Site Manager oversees sitelevel execution of large, multicenter clinical trials by leading site startup, driving enrollment performance, managing investigator relationships, and ensuring consistent protocol implementation across a national network of collaborating clinical sites. The role requires a high degree of independence, operational leadership, and performancedriven site management.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Oversee and coordinate the work of teams in other institutions.
• Establish early lines of communication with the clinical teams as they are identified, selected, and prepared for activation.
• Propel accelerated timelines during the trial start-up cycle and during subject accrual, assuring that monthly enrollment goals are met each month across all clinical sites.
• Assist with site feasibility evaluations, detailing the availability of critical local resources necessary to be successful at activating trials and enrollment and protocol performance once a trial begins.
• Assist sites in central IRB onboarding, ensure timely and accurate submission to IRBs, sponsors, and master agreements, local IRB/ethics committee review/approvals, and assist with the collection of all necessary regulatory documents needed before site activation for study subject enrollment.
• Oversee site compliance with investigational products, reporting or safety events and contracting.
• During trial implementation, oversee site performance, assist with subject eligibility and randomization, identify local recruitment problems, personalize remediation programs with site teams, and ensure that site investigators quickly implement local solutions to keep the recruitment goal on track for trial completion.
• Conduct weekly (or more frequent) teleconferences and manage monthly training broadcasts with the clinical teams and individually mentor new coordinators and investigators.
• Keep enrollments on track and clinical teams on schedule with established performance expectations.
• Provide support to quality assurance monitors in all facets of work related to communications with, and management of, the enrolling center clinical teams.
• Manage site investigator relationships and execute site start-up and performance plans, assign tasks and deadlines to site clinical teams, direct and monitor clinical site work efforts daily, identify resource needs, perform quality reviews, and elevate functional, quality and timeline issues appropriately.
• Execute lean management processes and methodologies to ensure sites deliver on-time and within the budget, adhere to high-quality standards, and benefit the investigative effort by ensuring smooth implementation of trial policies and goals from site launch through study activation and completion of the trial at the local levels.
• Perform self-audits and audit performance of clinical sites; recommend changes to protocol operations based on audit results and revised goals.
• Track proposals and other documentation through signature/approval processes and through collaboration with contracts personnel and IRB Navigators.
Use professional judgment in handling information and be sensitive to the project team, individual, and all levels of organizational concerns
• Use data, statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive modeling, and fact-based management to drive decision making
• Help investigators develop new insights and understanding of performance-based data.
• Serve as liaison and facilitate meetings between project stakeholders and leadership
• Complete and maintain professional documentation for projects and deliverables
• Develop SOPs and assist in the auditing and monitoring of study sites.
• Build and maintain strong, trusting relationships.
• Remain current with a constantly changing clinical research technology and embrace the adoption of innovations to modernize, disseminate, renovate and remodel.
• Serve as a knowledgeable liaison between leadership and the research communities.
• Other duties as assigned.

In addition to the duties above

• Lead site startup activities across numerous external clinical sites, including feasibility assessments, resource readiness evaluations, activation timelines, and onboarding to centralized IRB and master agreement processes.
• Actively track sitelevel enrollment metrics, identify underperforming sites, and design customized remediation strategies to address recruitment barriers and keep trials on pace for completion.
• Serve as the primary operational liaison for site investigators and coordinators, building trust, setting expectations, assigning deliverables, and holding sites accountable for performance, quality, and timelines.
• Direct and monitor daily site activities related to subject eligibility, randomization, protocol adherence, safety reporting, and investigational product compliance, escalating risks and issues as necessary.
• Oversee site performance reviews; recommend operational or protocol level improvements based on performance data and evolving trial needs.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field.
• Five years of related experience delivering effective clinical research management solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage and coordinate multiple external clinical sites. Advanced judgment and decisionmaking in highstakes, timesensitive research environments
• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior clinical research experience.

Technical Skills & Expected Level Of Proficiency

• Analytical Skills - Intermediate
• Attention to Detail - Intermediate
• Clinical Study Design - Intermediate
• Clinical Trials - Intermediate
• Forecasting - Intermediate
• Interpersonal Skills - Intermediate
• Oral and Written Communications - Intermediate
• Process Improvement - Intermediate
• Project Management - Intermediate
• Regulatory Compliance - Intermediate

The core technical skills listed are most essential; additional technical skills may be required based on specific division or department needs.

Classified Title: Clinical Research Site Manager

Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MD

Starting Salary Range: $57,195 - $100,040 Annually ($78,620 targeted; Commensurate w/exp.)

Employee group: Full Time

Schedule: M-F 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

FLSA Status: Exempt

Location: Remote

Department name: SOM Neuro BIOS

Personnel area: School of Medicine