• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: $64,350 - $64,350

Position Summary

The Department of Neurological Surgery seeks a Clinical Research Coordinator to join the Clinical Research team. Working under the direction of the Principle Investigators, the Clinical Research Coordinator will play a key role in the interface of patients, physicians, and researchers.

Specific duties will include involvement in participant screening, recruitment and tracking, data entry, and maintenance of study files and databases. The Clinical Research Coordinator will be tasked with maintaining adherence to written protocols and regulatory requirements.

We are looking for someone who can establish good rapport with patients of all ages, as well as the clinical, research, and administrative teams. The ideal candidate will show a demonstrated ability to multi-task, operate efficiently, learn and adapt quickly.

Responsibilities

• Research coordination includes working with treating physicians and clinical team to confirm that each patient meets eligibility criteria specified for protocols and enrollment into the study and to complete protocol related assessments.
• Support the day-to-day recruitment of subjects for this study, which include but are not limited to: active interaction with potential participants in high-volume patient waiting rooms and via telephone, respond to inquiries about the study from interested patients, maintain screening and recruitment logs.
• Obtaining in-person informed consent; assessing and reporting barriers to recruitment.
• Review and follow research protocols and determination data management requirement for each patient enrolled; interact with the regulatory office to maintain regulatory documents and administrative files for each protocol.
• Biospecimen collection (i.e., blood, saliva, urine), tracking, transporting, and shipping.
• Maintaining both patient and regulatory research records. This involves working in conjunction with the study team to gather all required data and relevant clinical information.
• Record collection and data entry, maintenance of study files and databases.
• Perform IRB and other regulatory submissions.
• Maintain quality assurance and control, including ensuring overall adherence to written protocols and regulatory requirements.
• Perform related duties & responsibilities as assigned/requested.
• Attend and transcribe focus group interviews and meetings.
• Administration and collection of questionnaires and photographs.
• Participate in collaborative meetings with various Departments within Columbia and NYP.
• Maintain research study supplies inventory, such as specimen collection supplies.
• Perform other tasks as requested.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in training, education and/or experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Two years related experience.
• Experience with working with cancer patients.
• Experience with research data entry and transcribing focus groups/interviews.

Other Requirements

• Willingness to interact in-person with patients/subjects.
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Ability to travel across the Medical Center campus.
• High level of attention to detail and knowledge of basic statistics.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work with a wide range of constituencies, and exercise tact and discretion when interacting with faculty, administrators and students.
• Communication skills include excellent written communication skills, compassion, discretion, and follow-through.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

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