RN Manager Clinical Research

UNC Health; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Health Cancer Care seeks an experienced Clinical Research Manager to lead a multidisciplinary oncology research team across North Carolina. You will supervise staff, ensure patient safety, data integrity, and regulatory compliance while driving study performance and enrollment.

The role partners with investigators and clinical leadership to optimize workflows, manage budgets, and expand oncology trials regionally. Travel between Triangle clinic locations is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing required.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Five years of clinical research experience.
• Three years of management experience.
• Clinical research certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee clinical research operations and staff performance.
• Ensure compliance with ICH-GCP and regulatory policies.
• Manage budgets and resource utilization.
• Collaborate with investigators and clinical partners.
• Track trials and report metrics to leadership.
• Support feasibility, enrollment and study startup.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Staff development

Regulatory compliance

Budget management

Investigator collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in nursing

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

UNC Health Cancer Care is seeking an experienced nurse leader to join their team as a Clinical Research Manager. This position will play a key role in supporting the safe, efficient, and compliant conduct of oncology clinical trials while fostering a collaborative, patient-centered environment for research staff, investigators, and clinical partners.

This role will lead and support a multidisciplinary clinical research team, providing daily supervision, coaching, and guidance while balancing staffing needs, study demands, and available resources. It will help ensure research activities are conducted in accordance with applicable regulations, institutional policies, and study requirements, with a focus on patient safety, data integrity, and research quality.

The Clinical Research Manager partners closely with clinical and research leadership, investigators, and clinic teams to address operational challenges, improve workflows, support study performance, and identify opportunities to strengthen research operations. This position also contributes to strategic planning and the continued growth of oncology clinical trials across the region.

The ideal candidate is an experienced oncology nurse and people leader who enjoys developing staff, solving operational challenges, building strong working relationships, and helping teams deliver high-quality clinical research. This is a full-time position with occasional travel between clinic locations throughout the Triangle.

Summary

Oversees the quality, coordination and conduct of all aspects of clinical research administration to ensure that research is conducted safely, ethically, and with the highest integrity.

Responsibilities

1. Responsible for efficient staffing to meet research department needs. Responsible for the hiring process, orientation of new coworkers, training and evaluation of the coworkers performance to ensure safe, quality patient care, protection for research subjects, and to ensure Rex standards of performance are met.
2. Provides direction for the clinical research operation in accordance with ICH GCP guidelines and based on established regulatory, professional, organizational standards. Develops, implements, maintains policies and procedures. Ensures IRB policies and procedures are followed.
3. Prepares and maintains accountability for research departmental budget and utilization of resources. Identifies variances and measures taken to address the variance. Regularly reports to Director financial status of the department.
4. Promotes collaboration among physicians, members of the healthcare team, and other departments with the objective of maximizing the number of viable clinical trials in order to improve quality, optimize care, and improve participant and physician satisfaction.
5. Works collaboratively with medical staff and appropriate department representatives to determine feasibility of studies and processes the trials through the required committees/meetings until trial is opened and approved for enrollment.
6. Develops and maintains mechanism to track each clinical trial opened to include key indicators in order to provide regular reports to management. Develops mechanism to track clinical, regulatory, and fiscal elements of each trial.
7. Assures active Medical Staff involvement to identify clinical trial opportunities and obtain involvement as principal investigators (PI). Works with appropriate representatives to obtain concurrence on appropriateness of clinical trials under consideration.
8. Responsible for ensuring collaboration with study sponsors and monitors to facilitate the ongoing need to collect data and meet study related, contracted timelines for study milestones.
9. Responsible for sound financial management by negotiating study budgets in line with study requirements and meeting contractual milestones for enrollment, data timelines, etc.

Other Information

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in nursing required. Master's degree preferred.

Licensure/Certification Requirements

• RN NC LIC
• Preferred: CCRP

Professional Experience Requirements

• Five years of clinical research experience. Three years of management experience. Clinical research certification preferred. Prefer hospital based research experience.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements

• Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret clinical information, professional journals and technical procedures. Ability to document clinical information. Ability to write reports and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively communicate information and respond to questions from patients, physicians, family members and groups of managers.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Job Details

Legal Employer: STATE

Entity: UNC Medical Center

Organization Unit: Cancer Center Research Raleigh

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Raleigh

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

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