Assistant Director Clinical Research Unit

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Under minimal supervision, this high-level position provides strategic administrative, operational, and fiscal leadership of research facilities, information systems supporting research including supervision of and administrative support for clinical research programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5 years of experience to include at least 3 years in supervisory capacity and clinical research experience.

Nice To Haves

• Graduate degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Direct and coordinate activities for the Clinical Research Services unit.
• Facilitate timely and appropriate communication with Principal Investigators and Research Nurses/Coordinators on all aspects of clinical research administration.
• Lead continuous process and operational improvement initiatives to reduce cycle-times, improve overall compliance posture, and remove unnecessary administrative burdens. Ensures the office will provide knowledgeable, friendly, professional, and timely support to clinical research community.
• Oversee the clinical trial coverage analyses process and reviews, contract development, and budget negotiation for industry-funded clinical trials and complex non-industry clinical trials.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of Velos, the institutional clinical trial management system. Oversee the process to register all clinical trials within institutional clinical trial management system and, as necessary, with federal clinicaltrials.gov registry and within institutional clinical trial registries.
• Participate and/or facilitate discussions around the integration between Velos and other sponsored award management systems, specifically PeopleSoft and eGrants (Click solution).
• Oversee the process to register all clinical trial participants within Velos and, as necessary, with affiliated electronic medical record systems.
• Ensure that clinical research income is billed in a timely manner, received timely, and accounted for accurately in institutional financial systems.
• Serve as the primary Department of Surgery point of contact with affiliate institutions on clinical trial needs, working continually to improve processes and services to ensure limited to no disruption in clinical services.
• Establish key operational metrics, publish periodic performance reports to research community, and maintain maximum efficiency and meet performance objectives.
• Implement and oversee an ongoing educational and training program for faculty and staff relating to conducting clinical research in partnership with Research Administration.
• Establish and maintain policies and procedures related to clinical research billing compliance. Ensures compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Oversee supervisors and/or subordinate managers to include establishing priorities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager