Clinical Research Coordinator - Pediatrics

Job Summary:

Want to join a fun, hard-working, collaborative team? Come join the Pediatric Clinical Research Coordination team! The UW Pediatric Clinical Research Coordination team supports clinical research across multiple divisions in the Department of Pediatrics. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to research aimed at prevention, detection, and treatment of disease in children. This position will assist with coordinating a variety of clinical research studies by performing various tasks and activities. These tasks include but are not limited to recruitment, screening, and enrolling study participants and families as well as ensuring study participants and families follow the research study protocol.

Our team of clinical research coordinators and research nurses apply expertise, knowledge, and skills to a broad range of clinical studies, navigate resources, identify issues requiring escalation, and contribute to the development of new team and unit processes, procedures, and tools. The Clinical Research Coordinator will work in collaboration with pediatric faculty, nurses and staff to coordinate clinical research studies for the Department of Pediatrics ranging from industry partnered to PI initiated clinical trials.

Responsibilities:

Coordinates clinical research studies, performing a variety of tasks and activities. Recruits, screens, selects, determines eligibility, and enrolls study participants and ensures subjects follow the research protocol. Develops study-related documents. Applies expertise, knowledge, and skills to a broad range of different types of clinical studies, navigates resources, and identifies issues needing escalation. Contributes to development of new team and unit processes, procedures, staff, and tools.

• 10% Schedules logistics, determines workflows, and secures resources for clinical research trials
• 25% Recruits, screens, selects, determines eligibility and enrolls trial participants, collects more complex information, performs medical assessments, and answers varied questions under supervision of a medically licensed professional. Performs medical assessments after completion of required training/certification, such as collecting vital signs, obtaining weight, and performing phlebotomy
• 25% Manages research workflow components, collects, prepares, processes, and submits participant data and samples to appropriate entities, adhering to research protocols
• 10% Identifies work unit resources needs and manages supply and equipment inventory levels
• 10% Serves as a main point of contact for clinical research participants, providing information regarding research procedures, expectations, and informational inquiries. Ensures participants follow the research protocol and alerts Principal Investigator of issues
• 10% Performs quality checks
• 5% Identifies resource needs and develops clinical research documents, such as job aids, tools, processes, procedures, and training. Contributes to the development of protocols
• 5% May assist with training of staff

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Education:

Preferred
Bachelor's Degree

Qualifications:

Required:
1. Experience in a clinical research or healthcare setting

Strongly preferred qualifications include:
1. Minimum of one year working in a clinical research role
2. Experience working with the pediatric population
3. Experience working with research data collection and/or sample processing
4. Experience utilizing a variety of platforms including Health Link or other electronic medical record, Microsoft Office Suite, REDCap, OnCore, and Google Drive
5. Clinical Research Certification

Additional Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
1. Effective oral and written communication skills
2. Ability to manage multiple projects at the same time
3. Excellent attention to detail and organization skills
4. Excellent time management and prioritization
5. Ability to independently and creatively problem solve

Work Type:

Full or Part Time: 90% - 100%

This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.

Appointment Type, Duration:

Ongoing/Renewable

Salary:

Minimum $52,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
Actual pay will depend on experience and qualifications. Employees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and paid time off; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits. Benefits information can be found at https://hr.wisc.edu/benefits/. 

Additional Information:

This position will generally be based in a general pediatric clinic at Union Corners to recruit for clinic based research studies. There is still the opportunity to work remotely at least 1 day per week.

This position is required to travel to multiple sites around Madison to facilitate recruitment and enrollment so the candidate should have access to reliable transportation or a willingness to use public transportation.

University sponsorship is not available for this position, including transfers of sponsorship. The selected applicant will be responsible for ensuring their continuous eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without the need of an employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment. This position is an ongoing position that will require continuous work eligibility. UW-Madison is not an E-Verify employer, and therefore, is not eligible to employ F1-OPT STEM Extension participants. If you are selected for this position you must provide proof of work authorization and eligibility to work.

This position has been identified as a position of trust with access to vulnerable populations. The selected candidate will be required to pass an initial caregiver check to be eligible for employment under the Wisconsin Caregiver Law and every four years.

This position vacancy listing is announced simultaneously with a Research Nurse posting, PVL 307041. Please note that only one vacancy exists. One person will be hired to fill the position under either Clinical Research Coordinator or Research Nurse.

How to Apply:

To apply for this position, please click on the "Apply Now" button. You will be asked to upload a current resume/CV and a cover letter briefly describing your qualifications and experience.

Contact:

Kelsey Scholtens
kscholtens@pediatrics.wisc.edu
608-262-0006
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.

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Official Title:

Clin Res Coord II(RE016)

Department(s):

A53-MEDICAL SCHOOL/PEDIATRICS/PEDIATRICS

Employment Class:

Academic Staff-Renewable

Job Number:

307654-AS

 

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