Clinical Research Coordinator II

Universities of Wisconsin•Madison, WI

23h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Department of Pediatrics is seeking a Clinical Research Coordinator to coordinate and support research studies conducted by the Pediatric Hospital Medicine and Complex Care Research Team. This role involves participant-facing activities, study operations management, data coordination, and communication with investigators and multi-site partners. The coordinator serves as the primary point of contact for clinical research participants, study investigators, and multi-site collaborators, ensuring studies are conducted in accordance with study protocols, regulatory requirements, and institutional standards. Key responsibilities include participant recruitment and screening in inpatient and outpatient settings, administration of interviews and surveys, data collection and documentation, tracking participant stipends, and scheduling and coordinating study team meetings. This position is full or part-time, 50%-100%. This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location. This position has been identified as a position of trust with access to vulnerable populations. The selected candidate will be required to pass an initial caregiver check to be eligible for employment under the Wisconsin Caregiver Law and every four years. Candidates who demonstrate exceptional interpersonal, organizational, and research interviewing skills, along with the ability to effectively prioritize multiple tasks, reliability and the ability to follow detailed research protocols with precision, strong attention to detail, professional communication skills, and the capacity to manage several responsibilities simultaneously will be given first consideration.

Requirements

Minimum 1 year of research experience in health services.
Computer experience with Microsoft Office and/or other database management software.

Nice To Haves

Experience in qualitative research methods or related fields.
Related fields could include research involving interviews, focus groups, iterative coding, or cleaning text for analysis.
Experience using Qualtrics, REDCap, or similar data-collection platforms.

Responsibilities

Performs quality checks
Serves as a main point of contact for clinical research participants, providing information regarding research procedures, expectations, and informational inquiries.
Ensures participants follow the research protocol and alerts Principal Investigator of issues
Performs literature reviews and contributes to the writing of academic manuscripts
Identifies work unit resources needs and manages supply and equipment inventory levels
Reviews, analyzes, and interprets qualitative data and documents results for presentations and/or reporting to internal and external audiences; point of contact for certain departmental research and data groups
Recruits, screens, selects, determines eligibility and enrolls trial participants, collects more complex information, performs medical assessments, and answers varied questions under supervision of a medically licensed professional.
Performs medical assessments after completion of required training/certification, such as collecting vital signs, obtaining weight, and performing phlebotomy
Schedules logistics, determines workflows, and secures resources for clinical research trials
Manages research workflow components, collects, prepares, processes, and submits participant data and samples to appropriate entities, adhering to research protocols
May assist with training of staff
Identifies resource needs and develops clinical research documents, such as job aids, tools, processes, procedures, and training.
Contributes to the development of protocols