Senior Research Coordinator

Job Description

SENIOR RESEARCH COORDINATOR

Req #: 245378 Department: NEUROLOGY Appointing Department Web Address: https://neurology.uw.edu/ Job Location: Seattle Campus Posting Date: 04/18/2025 Closing Info: Open Until Filled Salary: $5,696 - $10,889 per month Other Compensation: Shift: First Shift Benefits: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.
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The Department of Neurology has an outstanding opportunity for a Senior Research Coordinator. The Senior Research Coordinator will provide professional and administrative level lead support for Dr. Michael Weiss within the department with a focus on diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. This position will work directly with Dr. Weiss, coordinators and staff on a range of federally-funded and industry-funded scientific research. The Senior Research Coordinator will perform diverse duties that include establishing and implementing best practices to streamline study start-up and implementation, submitting IRB applications, coordinating research studies, ensuring quality budgets for industry-sponsored research, and training and supervising study staff in these areas as needed.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Research Project Administration and Management (50%)

Research Milestone Planning and Oversight: Track research start-up timelines for a portfolio of studies and report statuses regularly to research teams.

Start Up Management: Provide support to research coordinators and investigators to assist with study start up processes.

Study Reporting: produce internal operations reports.

Foster and maintain excellent relationships with study sponsors/funders, department administrators, and ancillary research service providers (e.g., radiology, IDS, TRU).

Assist investigators and study teams with completion of Site-Qualification questionnaires for potential sponsors.

Research Study Planning: as opportunities arise, collaborate with Investigators in providing content for grant applications, coordination of planning process/timelines, strategic planning of data collection methods, tools, and reporting, development of study protocols, and production of presentations; may also contribute toward literature reviews.

Onboarding and training of research staff: Create policies and handbooks detailing research operations; Serve as resource for staff regarding research operations; Provide new hires with manuals, guidelines, and training; detail all new hires' initial tasks and answer any queries; ensure new hires have the necessary technical assistance to set up their hardware and software; help new hires learn how to procure resources as needed to implement new studies.
Human Subjects Research Coordination and Oversight (50%)
Regulatory Coordination

Provide full spectrum of clinical trial regulatory services to principal investigator research teams, including study startup, IRB, and other institutional review and approval submissions, regulatory oversight and study regulatory binder management, regulatory close-out, etc.

Manage regulatory requirements for both investigator-initiated and industry sponsor-initiated trials and research studies, working on multiple research protocols at the same time.

Oversee regulatory aspects of protocol implementation in compliance with Federal regulations, ICH GCP guidelines, IRB-approved protocol requirements, State laws, and institutional policies.

Collaborate with budget and contract colleagues to properly align study protocols and protocol amendment impacts.

Consult with investigators and study coordinator staff/colleagues on regulatory requirements pertaining to their studies.

Prepare for any sponsor, FDA, IRB or other agency-initiated audits and inspections.

Develop and help implement Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) plans.
Research Study Coordination

Coordinate Participant Activities: coordinate and oversee the screening, recruiting, consenting, and surveying of participants. Take the lead on an ongoing ALS biomarker study.

Data Collection and Management: coordinate participant data collection across multiple sites and institutions; oversee quality control.
Supervisory Responsibilities

This position will require supervising 2-3 research coordinators and a research assistant within the Weiss group.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor's degree in public health, biological/social sciences

Equivalent experience can substitute for degree requirement

2-3 years minimum work experience
Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Strong interpersonal skills and flexibility to work with personnel at various levels in a cross-institutional research environment

Demonstrated ability to lead the implementation of complex research protocols and maintain high standards of accuracy, timeliness and professionalism

Demonstrated ability in ensuring security and confidentiality of study materials.

High level of competency, good judgment, discretion in carrying out tasks, troubleshooting problems and following through on projects to meet deadlines and study benchmarks

Proven experience demonstrating a high degree of organizational skills with a high degree of attention to details

Proven reliability and flexibility to work independently and function as a lead in directing the work of a diverse team

Prior experience in a research environment to facilitate interactions between research staff.

Thorough knowledge of HIPAA, IRB and related institutional requirements for the conduct of research.

Strong verbal and written communication skills
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Certified Research Coordinator (CCRC), Association of Clinical Research Professionals

Research Electronic Data Capture (Redcap) and Bio-repository database experience preferred

Some familiarity and experience with Neurology Research
Application Process: The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are access ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.

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