Senior Clinical Research Coordinator - Hematology/Oncology

University of California - Los Angeles Health; Westlake Village (CA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of California seeks a Senior Clinical Research Coordinator to oversee design, setup, conduct, and closeout of clinical studies, ensuring compliance with FDA CFR and ICH GCP. You will play a pivotal role in coordinating with investigators, departments, sponsors, and research teams to support high-quality study execution.

Engagement includes regulatory management, budgeting, and ensuring participant safety while adapting to changing study demands across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4+ years of experience in a clinical research setting.
• Ability to communicate professionally with students, staff, faculty, external collaborators and administration.
• Ability to interact with patients compassionately.
• Ability to set priorities and manage tasks with competing deadlines while complying with policies.
• Analytical skills to assess protocols and regulatory requirements.
• Attention to detail in a fast-paced environment.
• Organizational skills to maintain regulatory files and deadlines.
• Proficiency with Adobe and Microsoft suite, especially Excel.
• Willingness to travel to various clinic sites and meetings.
• Strong knowledge of local and external IRBs and research committees.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design, setup, conduct, and closeout of clinical studies.
• Collaborate with PI, departments, sponsors, and infrastructure to support study administration.
• Ensure adherence to study protocol, CFR, and GCP, and university policies.

Skills

Clinical research

IRB knowledge

Regulatory compliance

Budgeting

FDA processes

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Prioritization skills

Data management

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Advanced degree (preferred)

Tools

Adobe

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Description

The Senior Clinical Research Coordinator (Senior CRC)
contributes to the overall operational management of clinical
research/trial/study activities from design, set up, conduct, through closeout.
The position has responsibility for the implementation of research activities
for one or more studies. The Senior CRC recognizes and performs necessary tasks
to manage projects and prioritizes work to meet necessary deadlines. They are
responsible for planning and organizing necessary tasks to ensure adherence to
the study protocol and applicable regulations, such as institutional policy and
procedures, FDA Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), and ICH Good Clinical
Practice (GCP). The Senior CRC collaborates with the Principal Investigator
(PI), ancillary departments, central research infrastructure teams, sponsors,
institutions, and other entities as needed to support the administration of all
aspects of studies, including, but not limited to, compliant conduct, financial
management, and adequate personnel support.. Performance of duties and tasks
will vary based on the department operations, the type of study and scope of
service.

Salary Range: $93,927.51 - 151,099.73 Annually

Qualifications

Required:

• Minimum of 4+ years of experience in a clinical research
  setting.
• Interpersonal skills to
  effectively communicate information in a timely, professional manner and
  establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with
  students, staff, faculty, external collaborators and administration and to work as a member of a team.
• Ability to effectively
  communicate and interact with patients in
  a compassionate and kind manner.
• Ability to set
  priorities and complete ongoing tasks
  with competing deadlines, with frequent interruptions, to meet the
  programmatic and department needs, while complying with applicable University
  policies and federal and state regulations.
• Analytical skills to
  assess clinical research protocols and regulatory requirements, define
  problems, formulate logical solutions, develop alternative solutions, make
  recommendations, and initiate corrective actions.
• Close attention
  to detail to ensure accuracy in
  a fast-paced, fluctuating workload environment.
• Organization skills to
  create and maintain administrative and regulatory files effectively as well as
  independently balance the various tasks to ensure deadlines are met.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Adobe
  and Microsoft suite software, especially Excel, to perform daily tasks efficiently and accurately.
• A learning and
  professional growth mentality so that new software tools, systems, and
  processes can be adopted quickly and efficiently.
• Knowledge of and experience with a variety
  of local and external IRBs, scientific review and other research committees,
  national cooperative group sponsors, industry sponsors, federal and foundation
  funding organizations, etc.
• Strong verbal and written
  communication skills to effectively establish rapport, building
  collaborative relationships, and communicate complex concepts and ideas in an
  easy-to-understand manner.
• Ability to adapt to
  changing job demands and priorities, remain flexible including working flexible hours to accommodate research
  deadlines.
• Ability to handle confidential
  information with judgement and discretion.
• High degree of concentration
  and focus in a work environment
  that contains distracting stimuli, competing deadlines, and work delegated by
  more than one individual.
• Availability to work in more than one environment, travelling to various clinic sites,
  meetings, conferences, etc.
• Strong knowledge of and experience working with a variety
  of local and external IRBs, scientific review and other research committees,
  national cooperative group sponsors, industry sponsors, federal and foundation
  funding organizations, etc.
• Strong knowledge of clinical research concepts, policies
  and procedures, and human safety protection regulations and laws.
• Ability to think creatively to develop solutions affecting
  the full team.
• Experience with FDA processes and procedures.
• Sufficient experience and knowledge of clinical trials
  budgeting processes to manage the preparation of clinical trials budgets

Preferred:

• Bachelor's Degree in related area and/or equivalent
  combination of education and experience. Advanced degree.