Publications Coordinator

COG Research Foundation, LLC (Research Foundation) is a California 501(c)(3) entity founded in 2024 to serve as a fiscal sponsor to support research programs by providing legal, fiduciary, and administrative oversight for the program. The Research Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for the Children’s Oncology Group (COG).

COG, a member of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN), is the world’s largest organization devoted exclusively to childhood and adolescent cancer research. COG unites over 13,500 experts in childhood cancer at more than 220 leading children’s hospitals, universities, and cancer centers across the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Saudi Arabia to conduct more than 50 active clinical trials, with approximately 9,500 participants registered each year in the fight against childhood cancer.

All staff are employed through the Research Foundation. This role will be in service to COG.

The Publications Coordinator supports the development, review, submission, and tracking of manuscripts, abstracts, and related publication materials resulting from COG research. This role manages day-to-day publication operations, serves as a primary liaison for authors and writing committees, coordinates internal and external review workflows, maintains accurate publication records, and helps ensure compliance with organizational policies, standard operating procedures, and applicable public access requirements.

This position works closely with authors, writing committees, scientific committee chairs, study committee chairs, statisticians, COG leadership, research operations staff, external reviewers, and other stakeholders involved in manuscript and abstract development, review, approval, submission, and compliance processes. This position reports to the Manager of Member Engagement.

The COG Research Foundation, LLC is a 100% remote employer, though some travel may be required. Employee must reside within the United States.

Full salary range for this position: $70,296 to $101,911 per year. The typical hiring range for this position is from $70,296 (minimum) to $86,104 (midpoint), based on 100% FTE. The starting salary is determined based on the candidate’s knowledge, skills, experience, as well as budget availability.

• Manage all day-to-day operational tasks related to COG manuscript development.
• Serve as the COG Publications primary contact for authors, writing committees, scientific committee chairs, study committee chairs, statisticians, and other contributors.
• Engage with study committee chairs to communicate publications requirements and ensure the manuscript development process is initiated within the prescribed timelines.
• Monitor timelines, facilitate follow-up, and support adherence to agreed-upon project milestones.
• Responsible for all manuscript-related updates to the COG study database.

• Review manuscripts and abstracts submitted to COG for required components prior to submission to medical journals, scientific meetings, and other external venues.
• Identify required updates to manuscripts and abstracts, and engage authors regarding incomplete or noncompliant submissions.
• Coordinate internal COG leadership review and approval processes for manuscripts.
• Determine and facilitate external review requirements, including NCI, Industry-sponsored Trials Program, and/or NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) review, as applicable for both manuscripts and abstracts.
• Ensure external reviews are completed for manuscripts prior to journal submission and for abstracts prior to meeting…