Senior Clinical Research Coordinator | School of Medicine, Family Medicine

Summary
The VCU Department of Family Medicine and Population Health's research team is recruiting for a full- time Senior Clinical Research Coordinator for the ACORN practice-based research network. The Senior Research Coordinator will be responsible for supervising staff, leading timeliness and success of all network studies; and adherence to all regulatory requirements. The Senior Clinical Research Coordinator will serve as the primary senior clinical research coordinator of the practice-based research network's most high profile projects.

Typical Duties

Areas of responsibility for the Senior Clinical Research Coordinator would include but are not limited to the following:

• Assist PI with complex projects
• Lead training and coaching of less experienced staff
• Coordinate efforts across projects
• Maintain project timelines and organization
• Ensure studies meet recruitment goals
• Support PIs in their efforts to apply for funding, carry out studies, and publish and present results
• Manage summer student research experience
• Participate or lead in presentations at national conferences and publications
• Maintain advanced understanding of clinical research management duties from study initiation to close-out
• Maintain current CITI credentials for Human Subjects Protections, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Clinical Research Coordinator, plus additional sponsor GCP certifications as required
• Understand and adhere to all IRB requirements, Human Subjects protection regulations, and all aspects of IRB approved protocols
  

Areas of responsibility for the project-specific Lead Research Coordinator would include but are not limited to the following:

• Regularly coordinate and lead core study team meetings with PIs and full interdisciplinary research team members in Richmond (in person or virtually) to discuss project progress
• Prepare and maintain IRB and regulatory documentation
• Recruit study participants, ensuring equitable and inclusive recruitment
• Tailor the intervention to local study sites
• Coordinate with other research sites and with funding agencies to maintain study fidelity and collaboratively adapt study designs
• Collect qualitative and quantitative practice data such as electronic health record data, chart reviews, field notes, and informant interviews
• Assist participating health systems and practices with chart reviews and patient surveys
• Schedule logistics and manage practice and study team email correspondence
• Provide participants with routine feedback and project reports
• Coach, empower, and support practice team members with fielding the study
• Maintain the regulatory documentation to distribute study drugs in community practices