Soc/Clin Research Manager

UNC-Chapel HillChapel Hill, NC

About The Position

The Senior Administrator for Clinical Trials Recruitment, Site Set-Up, and Management is responsible for strengthening the Department of Medicine’s clinical research program by enhancing research quality, ensuring compliance, and advancing discoveries into improved patient outcomes. This position plays a pivotal role in leading participant recruitment, expediting site start-up, and overseeing trial operations across multiple divisions. The Senior Administrator provides strategic leadership, fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, and manages risks related to financial performance, patient safety, and regulatory compliance. In doing so, this role sustains a thriving research environment that benefits both the institution and the broader medical community. This role is critical in the Department’s transition to a larger and more diversified research portfolio that brings together a mix of federal funding, industry funding, and other extramural support compared to the current portfolio which is primarily federally funded.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in an Academic Medical Center / Department of Medicine with multiple medical subspeciality research programs
  • Providing oversight for operations and finance
  • Demonstrating experience in management/supervision
  • Demonstrating experience in project management
  • Demonstrating experience in clinical trials
  • Demonstrating experience in clinical research operations/compliance
  • High attention to detail
  • Successful resolution of complex problems

Nice To Haves

  • Established knowledge of clinical trials development, deployment, and management

Responsibilities

  • Enhancing research quality
  • Ensuring compliance
  • Advancing discoveries into improved patient outcomes
  • Leading participant recruitment
  • Expediting site start-up
  • Overseeing trial operations across multiple divisions
  • Providing strategic leadership
  • Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration
  • Managing risks related to financial performance, patient safety, and regulatory compliance
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