Director - Clinical Trials Program - Full Time - Days

Mohawk Valley Health System; City of Utica (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

Mohawk Valley Health System invites a Director of the Clinical Trials Program to lead the research facility, balancing clinical excellence with regulatory compliance and portfolio expansion. The role focuses on multi-site partnerships, rigorous safety culture, and statistical excellence across translational research initiatives.

The position oversees strategic leadership, portfolio growth, and research design, including budgeting, staff development, and liaison work with providers, sponsors and

Qualifications

• Requires PhD/MD or terminal degree in life sciences, biostatistics, public health or related field.
• Demonstrated 8+ years of leadership experience in research or academic health system.
• Evidence of published peer‑reviewed research in relevant journals.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for expanding the Clinical Trials Program and securing grants.
• Oversee regulatory compliance, patient safety, data integrity and risk management across multi-site collaborations.
• Direct budgeting, staffing, and infrastructure to ensure sustainable funding and performance.
• Lead methodological excellence, data analysis planning, sample size calculations and dissemination of findings.

Skills

Research methodologies

Epidemiology principles

Quality assurance protocols

Advanced statistical analysis

MS Office proficiency

Education

PhD/MD or related terminal degree

8 years leadership experience

Published peer‑reviewed research

Tools

SAS

SPSS

R

Stata

Job description

Job Summary

The Director of the Clinical Trials Program provides leadership, strategic planning, and operational oversight for the research facility. The director balances clinical excellence, regulatory compliance, and portfolio expansion. This position is responsible for cultivating multi-site partnerships, establishing a rigorous safety culture, and driving methodological and statistical excellence across all clinical and translational research initiatives.

Core Job Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership, Portfolio Growth & Research Design

• The director drives the strategic expansion of the Clinical Trials Program by targeting public and private research grants supporting operational and project funds.
• To broaden research offerings, the director scales investigator-initiated trials, builds multi-site grant initiatives, and serves as the core liaison between healthcare providers, institutional investors, pharmaceutical companies, academic partners, and sponsors.
• Methodologically, the director researches design to optimize research proposals.
• The director will lend assistance with research data analysis plans, sample size calculations, power analyses, and predictive modeling, while championing high-impact research dissemination through the review of statistical findings and manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals.

Operations, Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensures safety and operational compliance and patient and data safety.
• Maintains open communication with the Institutional Review Board, manages conflicts of interest, and cooperates with the legal office regarding institutional compliance with regulations for patient privacy and safety.
• Oversees bio-statistical standards such as data integrity and reproducibility, in alignment with regulatory guidelines, and ensures access to incident reporting.

Financial Oversight, Infrastructure & Personnel

• Directs comprehensive budget management systems encompassing revenue funding, expense distributions, and grant tracking, while driving long-term financial longevity via integrated billing frameworks and capital forecasting.
• Defines precise internal roles and structural divisions of labor, mandating safety training courses, conducting operational evaluations, and overseeing continuous staff training in research methodologies and analytical software.
• Performs other duties as required.

Education/Experience Requirements

REQUIRED:

• PhD, MD, or related terminal degree in a life science, biostatistics, public health, or a related field
• 8 years of leadership experience
• Documented published peer-reviewed research.
• Demonstrate expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, epidemiological principles, quality assurance protocols, and advanced statistical analysis.
• Demonstrate financial acumen in budget management, grant tracking, and business intelligence tools, paired with an expert working knowledge of Institutional Review Board operations, and patient safety.
• Highly proficient with MS Office.

PREFERRED:

• Proficiency in industry-standard analytical software such as SAS, SPSS, R, or Stata.

Licensure/Certification Requirements

Disclaimer

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Job Details

Req Id 99264
Department RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY ACT
Shift Days
Shift Hours Worked 8.00
FTE 1
Work Schedule SALARIED MANAGEMENT
Employee Status A1 - Full-Time
Union Non-Union
Pay Range $120,000 - $192,000 annually