UNIV-Research Program Coordinator, College of Nursing
About The Position
The MUSC College of Nursing is seeking a full-time Program Coordinator to provide day-to-day operational coordination for the NIH-funded UNDERSTAND study, a remotely delivered behavioral clinical trial focused on reducing stress among caregivers of people living with mild cognitive impairment or early-stage Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Under the direction of the Principal Investigator (PI), the coordinator serves as the study’s primary operational coordinator and works with investigators, intervention personnel, the Independent Safety Officer, collaborating research centers, community partners, and MUSC research and regulatory offices. The position coordinates participant recruitment, screening, consent, enrollment, and retention; study and regulatory documentation; REDCap workflows and data-quality activities; safety and protocol-deviation tracking; participant compensation; and study reporting. It also supports study procedures, training, quality assurance, and closeout. The position is full-time, scheduled for 40 hours per week, and paid hourly. The listed pay range is $46,206 to $78,540, with a midpoint of $62,322.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Three years of relevant program experience.
- Strong organizational, communication, problem-solving, and independent project-management skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience coordinating NIH-funded clinical, behavioral, or community-based research.
- Experience with longitudinal or remotely delivered intervention studies.
- Experience working with caregivers, older adults, or dementia-related research.
- Experience with REDCap, including e-consent, survey workflows, data-quality review, and reporting.
- Experience with regulatory submissions, sIRB/reliance activities, adverse-event tracking, and protocol deviations.
- Experience developing study SOPs, workflows, checklists, and training materials.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate IRB-approved recruitment activities with clinical, community, and research partners.
- Respond to prospective participants and conduct protocol-approved prescreening and eligibility procedures, including FAST and PAR-Q+ procedures.
- Conduct informed-consent activities when appropriately trained and delegated.
- Maintain screening, recruitment, enrollment, withdrawal, and retention records; monitor recruitment and enrollment metrics and identify barriers for PI review.
- Serve as the primary operational contact for study participants and coordinate baseline, intervention, post-intervention, and six-month follow-up activities.
- Provide protocol-approved instructions, schedules, materials, intervention access, reminders, and retention support; track missed assessments, withdrawals, technology concerns, and participant-reported barriers.
- Coordinate facilitated intervention sessions and qualitative interviews with designated study personnel and support fidelity monitoring.
- Maintain current regulatory and study documentation, track deadlines, prepare regulatory materials for PI review, and coordinate applicable sIRB/reliance documentation and communications.
- Coordinate study meetings, agendas, action items, and operational follow-up; support NIH progress reporting, ClinicalTrials.gov activities, and other required study reports.
- Coordinate development, testing, and maintenance of study-specific REDCap instruments and workflows; maintain electronic case report forms and participant tracking systems.
- Conduct routine data-quality reviews, identify missing, incomplete, or discrepant data, and facilitate query resolution.
- Maintain recruitment, retention, assessment, intervention, compensation, and safety reports; support authorized datasets, data documentation, deidentification, archival, and data-sharing activities.
- Document adverse events, participant concerns, protocol deviations, and other potential safety issues; promptly escalate safety concerns and potentially reportable events to the PI and designated safety personnel.
- Maintain adverse-event, protocol-deviation, and corrective-action tracking records; coordinate quality-assurance reviews and prepare materials for Independent Safety Officer review.
- Track monitoring findings and corrective actions through resolution and maintain audit-ready records.
- Coordinate, document, and reconcile participant compensation according to approved study procedures.
- Coordinate study materials, equipment, supplies, vendors, and other approved operational resources; communicate discrepancies or resource needs to the PI or appropriate administrative personnel.
- Develop and maintain study-specific SOPs, workflows, checklists, scripts, and training materials; coordinate protocol-specific training and maintain training and delegation documentation.
- Support study closeout, final data reconciliation, regulatory-file review, archival, and data-sharing requirements.
- Perform other study-related duties consistent with the assigned classification and approved protocol.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
