Public Health Research Coordinator I: Studies & Compliance

Washington University in St. Louis; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 49,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

Washington University in St. Louis is seeking a study coordinator to assist investigators in a basic to moderately complex public health research study.

The role may manage multiple studies and act as a liaison with the school, sponsoring agency, community, and participants. The position involves coordinating study protocols, enrolling participants, ensuring protocol compliance, managing data, and supporting IRB processes and grant/manuscript activities as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or combination of education and/or experience may substitute for minimum education.
• No specific certification/professional license is required for this position.
• No specific work experience is required for this position.

Responsibilities

• Routinely implements and manages all phases of study/protocol; ensures compliance with protocol guidelines and requirements of regulatory agencies; may establish record-keeping systems; makes assessments and determinations of participants’ progress in the study and records progress into database; may analyze, investigate, and report adverse events; may make decisions as when to notify investigator of emergent issues, when to recommend stopping participant inclusion, and/or to make and/or recommend adjustment of the protocol of particular participants; works with investigator and HRPO to resolve IRB/protocol management issues and recommends corrective action as appropriate; may serve as liaison with funding or sponsoring agency.
• Routinely recruits and enrolls study participants; makes and/or participates in making determinations of eligibility based on diagnostic criteria, medical record review, and/or observations/analysis in participant interviews; develops and prepares informed consent packets for study participants; and confers with participants to explain purpose of study and obtain completed informed consent packets; explains study processes and procedures to address participant/family concerns; administers/scores tests and/or evaluates all assessments to ensure they are completed in a timely manner.
• Routinely ensures timely completion of all protocol requirements (assessment, testing, procedures and treatments), including scheduling and facilitating the participant’s timely completion of protocol requirements; may evaluate, analyze, and interpret qualitative and/or quantitative data of low complexity in conjunction with investigator as applicable and appropriate; in conjunction with the investigator, may prepare oral or written presentations or reports and analyses setting forth progress trends and/or provide recommendations or conclusions of the same.
• May conduct literature reviews under the supervision of the investigator.
• May assist Investigator with grant and manuscript preparations.
• Routinely collects public health data under public health research protocols.
• Performs other duties incidental to the work described herein.

Skills

Analytical Solutions

Big Data Analytics

Communication

Computer Literacy

Data Management

Interpersonal Relationships

Organizational Leadership

Public Health Research

Qualitative Analysis

Quantitative Analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree or combination of education and/or experience

Job description

Washington University in St. Louis is seeking a study coordinator to assist investigators in a basic to moderately complex public health research study.

The role may manage multiple studies and act as a liaison with the school, sponsoring agency, community, and participants. The position involves coordinating study protocols, enrolling participants, ensuring protocol compliance, managing data, and supporting IRB processes and grant/manuscript activities as needed.