Associate Director-Clinical Trials
About The Position
The Associate Director is a senior operational and financial strategist responsible for accelerating the lifecycle of industry-funded clinical trials. Reporting to the Senior Associate Dean for Collaborate Research and Partnerships, you will serve as the primary liaison between clinical and translational research departments and industry sponsors to ensure rapid trial activation, start-up and rigorous fiscal stewardship. As part of the FACTS Office, this role serves as a liaison across research administration, contracts, finance, compliance, and assigned clinical or research departments to ensure efficient project start-up activation, transparent financial oversight, and adherence to institutional and sponsor requirements. The ideal candidate is metric driven that combines strong program management skills with deep knowledge of clinical research activation, finance and workflows. Must have expertise in reviewing protocols/consent forms, creating and negotiating budgets, budget forecasting, monitoring subject enrollment, account reconciliation, and financial reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor is required; Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Business, or Research Administration preferred or MD/RN/PA degree with clinical research and translational medicine experience.
- 5+ years of experience in Clinical Research Manager clinical trial management, specifically focused on industry-funded studies and pre and post award finance administration.
- Excellent organizational, analytical, and communication skills
Responsibilities
- Accelerated Project Start-Up & Operational Leadership
- Ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
- Experience managing or supporting expedited study start-up (FASTrack)
- Familiarity with IRB, FDA regulations related to IND/IDE, contracts, coverage analysis, and clinical billing compliance.
- Specialized Finance Administration (Pre and Post Award)
- Demonstrated experience with clinical trial budgeting, financial feasibility, invoicing.
- Proficiency with clinical trial management systems (OnCore), financial systems (Oracle CLOUD), EHR (Epic) and other reporting tools and dashboards (Tableau).
- Stakeholder Engagement & Compliance Management
- Strong understanding of clinical research regulations and institutional workflows.
- Provides administrative services and analytical support to management with experience using Microsoft 365 including Word, PP, Excel, Copilot, and other platforms including ChatGPT, Smartsheet, etc.
- Metric driven responsibilities including creating and managing dashboard and preparing presentations to Leadership and Stakeholders
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
