Sr Clinical Research Coordinator

University of Utah; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Utah is seeking a Senior Clinical Research Coordinator in Salt Lake City to manage and implement complex health intervention trials. Responsibilities include overseeing project phases, supervising junior staff, ensuring compliance with research protocols, and managing data collection processes. Candidates should ideally have a Bachelor's degree with significant work experience in research coordination and project management skills. The role offers an opportunity to work at a nationally recognized research program dedicated to occupational health interventions.

Qualifications

• 1-8 years of relevant work experience required based on education.
• Ability to develop health-related program materials.
• Experience with compliance and protocol implementation.

Responsibilities

• Manage successful research project implementation.
• Supervise junior staff and graduate students.
• Oversee data collection and management.

Skills

Project management

Research coordination and compliance

Data collection and management

Supervision and mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or equivalent

Tools

REDCap

Job description

The Senior Clinical Research Coordinator will coordinate the development and implementation of complex occupational health intervention trials and other occupational health research studies. The coordinator will manage multiple applied research lab projects and supervise more junior research staff. Dr. Ryan Olson is recruiting a Sr. Clinical Research Coordinator to provide leadership and project management within his nationally recognized interdisciplinary research program on occupational health interventions. Dr. Olson is an Occupational Health Psychologist and Professor at the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health. This multi‑disciplinary Center is affiliated with the Division of Occupational and Environmental Health in the School of Medicine at the University of Utah. He is a charter member and inaugural fellow of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology. Current and planned topics of study in the Olson lab include interventions addressing health behaviors and body weight management, sleep health, chronic pain management, and organizational readiness to implement occupational and environmental health interventions. Current and planned populations of study include active‑dutiful military personnel, bus operators, home care workers, and patients with co‑morbidity sleep disturbance and chronic pain.

The ideal candidate will have strong skills in project management, research coordination and compliance, data collection and management, and supervision and mentoring of more junior research staff.

Core responsibilities of the position will be managing the successful implementation of lab projects, with activities including planning and managing project phases, coordinating scientific and team meetings, tracking and following up on action items, ensuring research project compliance with IRB and other protocols, and cultivating and maintaining strong relationships with organizational study partners. It is ideal if the applicant has some experience creating or adapting health‑related program materials (training, session or coaching protocols, advertisements, health tip sheets, etc.).

Responsibilities

1. Plan and manage successful implementation of research project phases and outputs (on time, high quality, aims accomplished)
2. Contribute to developing and iteratively revising occupational health intervention materials.
3. Coordinate and set agendas and track action items for scientific team, lab, and partner meetings.
4. Supervise and lead more junior staff and graduate students in the lab in the implementation of research project activities and outputs. This includes onboarding, training, assignment of work tasks, and coordinating schedules for study implementation.
5. Oversee, assess, and ensure high intervention and study fidelity, and participant safety; oversee strict protocol implementation/adherence and compliance with GCP guidelines, federal regulations, institutional policies and procedures, and internal SOPs.
6. Prepare, submit and maintain IRB, FDA, NCI, NIH, NSF and/or other protocols, regulatory documents/documentation, progress reports, and research correspondence.
7. Oversee data collection, management, cleaning, and processing in collaboration with statistical and postdoctoral team members.
8. Determine subject population availability, develop recruitment, informed consents and screening materials; help develop survey and study data collection instruments.
9. Develop and evaluate new study protocols for implementation and data processing, including standard operating procedures for any new study activities.
10. Coordinate approval of new study agreements and contracts and manage study budgets and billing.
11. Assist with the preparation of manuscripts and grant applications.

Minimum Qualifications

EQUIVALENCY STATEMENT: 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor’s degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).

Clinical Research Coordinator (Non‑R.N.), II: Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) + 4 years or a master’s (or equivalency) + 2 years of directly related work experience.

Clinical Research Coordinator (Non‑R.N.), III: Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) + 6 years or a master’s (or equivalency) + 4 years of directly related work experience.

Clinical Research Coordinator (Non‑R.N.), IV: Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) + 8 years or a master’s (or equivalency) + 6 years of directly related work experience.

Preferences

• Experience creating educational and other content for safety or health promotion programs
• Experience and skills using REDCap
• Experience collecting survey (electronic or paper surveys, daily diary surveys) and/or biometric (weight, blood pressure, fitness testing) research data
• Experience or knowledge related to a topic (health behaviors, sleep, chronic pain) or population (commercial drivers, military personnel, home care workers) being studied in the Olson lab

This position may require the successful completion of a criminal background check and/or drug screen.

Consistent with state and federal law, the University of Utah does not discriminate based upon race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy‑related conditions, genetic information, or protected veteran’s status. The University does not discriminate on the basis of sex in the education program or activity that it operates, as required by Title IX and 34 CFR part 106. The requirement not to discriminate in education programs or activities extends to admission and employment. Inquiries about the application of Title IX and its regulations may be referred to the Title IX Coordinator, to the Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, or both.