Lead HRPP Regulatory Compliance Analyst

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In your pivotal role as a Lead HRPP Reg Compliance Analyst for the HRPP, you will provide leadership in ensuring the continuity and consistency of the research proposal process. You will also facilitate the protocol process from submission to completion.

The VUMC Human Research Protections Program (HRPP) supports the ethical and responsible conduct of human participants research across the institution. Working in partnership with investigators, study teams, and institutional leadership, the program helps ensure that research involving human participants is conducted in a manner that protects their rights, safety, and well‑being. The HRPP oversees and supports all types of human research and promotes compliance with applicable regulations and institutional policy.

The HRPP plays a key role in advancing high‑quality research that benefits individuals and communities.

• Coordinates and supervises team members' work product before, during, and after committee meetings.
• Identifies, coordinates, and evaluates need for compliance reviews.
• Interprets findings, develops recommendations, and ensures appropriate follow‑up.
• Develops goals and objectives for the department based on interpretation of institutional and regulatory policies.
• Analyzes and evaluates ongoing departmental programs to identify areas needing adjustments and/or improvements.
• Creates, supervises, and constructs complex quality assurance audits of researchers and research staff.
• Develops and provides training and acts as internal consultant to staff, committee members, and the research community.
• Develop training for committee members and the research community.

The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

• Regulatory Compliance (Advanced):
  
  - Demonstrates knowledge of the appropriate rules and regulations and apply them in difficult, stressful and complex situations. Able to interpret and explain rules and regulations that are ambiguous or unclear. Directs others in interpreting rules and regulations on the job and trains others in them.
• Quality Assurance (Advanced):
  
  - Understands the goal of increasing organizational productivity and individual performance by making the products and services within your work assignments more efficient and more effective.
• Problem Solving (Advanced):
  
  - Uses critical thinking and process improvement i.e. coaches and mentors development of problem statement, describes current state, identifies root causes, creates future state, coaches and mentors development of solutions and action plans with a sustainability plan. Applies appropriate tools to address issues.
• Communication (Advanced):
  
  - Clearly, effectively and respectfully communicates to employees or customers.
• Customer Service (Advanced):
  
  - A continuing focus on the needs and requirements of customers, anticipating their needs, remaining sensitive to customers while performing services for…