Title: Research Coordinator
Title: Research Coordinator
Location: Upper East Side
Org Unit: Sean Murphy Lab
Work Days: Monday-Friday
Weekly Hours: 35.00
Exemption Status: Exempt
Salary Range: $63,906.00 - $78,450.00
*As required under NYC Human Rights Law Int 1208-2018 - Salary range for this role when Hired for NYC Offices
Position Summary
Under direction of principle investigator Ali Jalali, PhD, the successful candidate coordinates, monitors, and ensures compliance with IRB protocols, data use agreements, and other regulatory requirements for interdisciplinary, multi-site substance use health services and economics research projects. The Research Coordinator will play a vital role in establishing a rapidly growing lab, coordinating research activities, and providing essential administrative support to the PI. Strong organizational, written, and verbal communication skills are required.
Job Responsibilities
- Develops and implements practices to ensure research efficiency by routinely analyzing and evaluating workflow.
- Coordinates the collection, compilation, documentation and analysis of clinical research data from various clinical sites. Assists in the determination of guidelines for the collection of clinical data and or administration of clinical studies.
- Ensures compliance of general and study specific regulatory related processes with SOPs, FDA, NIH, and applicable regulations for the reporting of events to regulatory agencies.
- Develops regulatory reports and associated documentation in accordance with SOPs and study specific processes.
- Prepares study related budgets for granting agencies. Negotiates study related budgets with various sites, departments and sponsors.
- Researches and develops the recruitment strategies. Employs modeling and simulation tools to understand the current and projected outcome of recruitment techniques. Monitors and evaluates the success of varying subject recruitment techniques.
- Participates in protocol development as it relates to patient recruitment. Assesses, analyzes, prepares and submits departmental protocols to various places as it relates to subject recruitment and retention.
- Performs monitoring visits: pre-study, initiation, routine monitoring and closeout visits.
- Works closely with sponsor, site and study personnel on relevant regulatory issues. Develops policies and procedures pertaining to regulatory and monitoring processes. Leads regulatory educational training events for personnel at various sites.
- Maintains inventory of supplies, equipment and/or reagents. May order supplies/equipment/reagents as authorized or ensure that needs are escalated appropriately. Receives supply orders and confirms accuracy of delivery. May assist with cost control.
- Performs other related duties as directed.
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in related field
Experience
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Experience with conducting and carrying out protocols and research coordination.
- Familiarity with IRB interaction, regulatory policies, database input and report generation.
- Research experience in an academic health center with exposure to a team research environment at all levels (senior investigators, nurses, research coordinators, lab technicians).
Licenses and Certifications
Working Conditions/Physical Demands
Weill Cornell Medicine is a comprehensive academic medical center that is committed to excellence in patient care, scientific discovery, and the education of future physicians and scientists in New York City and around the world. Our doctors and scientists - faculty from Weill Cornell Medical College, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and the Weill Cornell Physician Organization - are engaged in world-class clinical care and cutting-edge research that connect patients to the latest treatment innovations and prevention strategies. Located in the heart of the Upper East Side's scientific corridor, Weill Cornell Medicine's powerful network of collaborators extends to its parent university Cornell University; to Qatar, where an international campus offers a U.S. medical degree; and to programs in Tanzania, Haiti, Brazil, Austria and Turkey. Our medical practices serve communities throughout New York City, and our faculty provide comprehensive care at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Westchester Behavioral Health Center, and NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens. At Weill Cornell Medicine, we work together to treat each individual, not just their conditions or illnesses, as we strive to deliver the finest possible care for our patients - the center of everything we do. Weill Cornell Medicine is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Weill Cornell Medicine provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to protected status, including race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, or genetic information.
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