Trial Manager Clinical Trials Unit Grade 6

Position Details

Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, School of Health Sciences

Location:

University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £33,002 to £35,608 with potential progression once in post to £39,906

Grade 6

Part Time, Fixed Term contract up to July 2027

Closing date: 29th July 2026

People are at the heart of what we are and do.
The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university. We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.
We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector‑leading Birmingham Professional programme, which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential.
With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to develop your career at the University.
We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate. We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who we are and how we work.
Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University; depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements and welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working.
In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme. We also have three high‑quality subsidised day nurseries.
The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site. On campus we have a state‑of‑the‑arts sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens.

The Trial Manager will be a member of one or more trial working groups, responsible for the management and organisation of the trial(s) office for the conduct of large, clinical trial protocols and administration of the clinical collaborative groups.

• Ensure that the trial protocol is conducted in accordance with the applicable ethical, regulatory and quality standards of the Clinical Trials Unit and that appropriate records and audit trails are maintained.
• Ensure that the trial complies with current regulatory reporting requirements (e.g. of adverse events) to the relevant bodies e.g. competent authorities, ethics committees, investigators etc.
• Set up clinical sites, prepare ethics committee and regulatory submissions and ensure that the staff at participating sites understand and can comply with the protocol.
• Monitor progress of each site and take appropriate action to ensure good recruitment; compliance with the protocol, and the quality and timeliness of the data collection. Use initiative to tackle any practical difficulties reported by sites i.e. those which affect recruitment, protocol or Good Clinical Practice compliance or patient safety. Conduct initiation, problem solving, monitoring, quality assurance/audit visits as required.
• The Trial Manager may contribute to the design, analysis, publication and presentation of the research. This may involve writing research grant applications; contributing to the design, development and feasibility/testing of protocols; case report forms; coding lists, and databases. Also, writing abstracts; designing posters; and contributing to journal articles.
• Responsible for the collection, processing and secure storage of the study documentation.
• Apply an in‑depth understanding of the clinical research to ensure that the methods used to implement and conduct…