Clinical Research Manager

The Tass Lab at Stanford University is seeking a Clinical Research Manager to provide leadership and operational oversight for our pioneering research in Parkinson’s disease. This key role offers a unique opportunity to partner directly with faculty to transform groundbreaking research visions into clinical reality. You will serve as the strategic backbone of our studies—empowering clinical staff, navigating regulatory excellence, and ensuring our fiscal and operational management is as world‑class as the science itself.

• Hire, orient, train, and conduct performance reviews for staff handling research administration activities associated with the conducting of clinical trials.
• Supervise the implementation of and adherence to study protocols. Educate research staff on established policies, processes, and procedures.
• Determine effective strategies for promoting/recruiting research participants and retaining participants in long‑term clinical trials. Develop consent forms for approval by Human Subjects Panel.
• Coordinate new protocol submissions, renewals, and revisions to Institutional Review Board for multiple studies. Complete annual reports to Institutional Review Board, CSTA, FDA and other regulatory agencies. Submit Investigational New Drug applications to the FDA as required.
• Audit operations, including laboratory procedures, to ensure compliance with applicable regulations; provide leadership in identifying and implementing corrective actions/processes. Monitor Institutional Review Board submissions, and respond to requests and questions.
• Provide leadership and expertise in identifying and completing research grants. Oversee financial resources, as needed, create internal and external budgets for research protocols, assure financial accountability, and serve as primary liaison between sponsor, department accounting, and Research Management Group.
• Engage in high‑level outreach and networking opportunities, representing the research program to a variety of internal and external audiences.
• Make recommendations for a variety of options within a trial; track physician compliance.
• Assist with analysis of data and preparation of manuscripts and scientific presentations.

* - Other duties may also be assigned

• Hire, orient, train, and conduct performance reviews for staff handling research administration activities associated with the conducting of clinical trials.
• Supervise the implementation of and adherence to study protocols. Educate research staff on established policies, processes, and procedures.
• Determine effective strategies for promoting/recruiting research participants and retaining participants in long‑term clinical trials. Develop consent forms for approval by Human Subjects Panel.
• Coordinate new protocol submissions, renewals, and revisions to Institutional Review Board for multiple studies. Complete annual reports to Institutional Review Board, CSTA, FDA and other regulatory agencies. Submit Investigational New Drug applications to the FDA as required.
• Audit operations, including laboratory procedures, to ensure compliance with applicable regulations; provide leadership in identifying and implementing corrective actions/processes. Monitor Institutional Review Board submissions, and respond to requests and questions.
• Provide leadership and expertise in identifying and completing research grants. Oversee financial resources, as needed, create internal and external budgets for research protocols, assure financial accountability, and serve as primary liaison between sponsor, department accounting, and Research Management Group.
• Engage in high‑level outreach and networking opportunities, representing the research program to a variety of internal and external…