Clinical Research Coordinator​/PATH Project Coordinator (*Restricted

Unit:School Of Nursing MBU

Department: Research

Duties & Responsibilities:

The Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC) is a specialized research professional who will work with and under the direction of the Principal Investigator (PI) to support the implementation and evaluation of the Partnership-based Approach to Translational Human-centered co-learning (PATH) project.
While the PI is primarily responsible for the overall design, conduct, and scientific oversight of the research, the CRC will support, facilitate, and coordinate day-to-day research activities and play a central role in ensuring the effective implementation of the project. The CRC will work closely with the PI, research team members, academic collaborators, community partners, and participating research teams to support study operations, regulatory compliance, data collection and management, community-partnered activities, qualitative and mixed-methods analysis, and dissemination.

The CRC reports primarily to the Principal Investigator.

• Coordinate research activities as authorized by the Principal Investigator and consistent with approved research protocols and institutional requirements.
• Maintain current CITI credentials for Human Subjects Protections and other research-related certifications required by the institution or study.
• Understand and adhere to all IRB requirements, human-subjects protection regulations, approved research protocols, and applicable institutional policies.
• Coordinate preparation, submission, and tracking of IRB materials, including initial submissions, amendments, continuing reviews, study personnel changes, and other regulatory documentation as applicable.
• Maintain complete and organized study records and regulatory documentation and ensure study files are maintained in an audit-ready state.
• Develop and maintain project-management systems to track study activities, deliverables, milestones, regulatory requirements, data collection, and other concurrent project timelines.
• Maintain clear document-management and version-control systems for protocols, study materials, data-collection tools, meeting materials, analytic products, and project deliverables.
• Coordinate logistics and communication for research activities involving academic investigators, research teams, community partners, advisory groups, and other stakeholders.
• Support the development and maintenance of respectful, responsive, and productive relationships with community and academic partners throughout the research process.
• Coordinate community-engaged research activities, including scheduling and supporting advisory meetings, co-learning sessions, human-centered design activities, facilitated reflections, and other participatory research activities.
• Assist with the preparation of meeting materials, facilitation guides, agendas, presentations, documentation of decisions, and follow-up activities resulting from research and community-partner meetings.
• Support participant recruitment, informed consent, scheduling, and data collection for interviews, focus groups, surveys, facilitated reflections, and other study activities, as applicable.
• Conduct or assist with qualitative data collection, including interviews, focus groups, observations, or facilitated reflection activities, in accordance with study protocols and team procedures.
• Support qualitative and mixed-methods data management and analysis, including transcript and data preparation, coding, data abstraction, development and maintenance of analytic matrices, rapid qualitative analysis, synthesis of findings, and integration of qualitative and quantitative data as appropriate.
• Coordinate data collection and management using REDCap or other approved research data-management systems.
• Assist with monitoring data completeness and quality and maintaining accurate study tracking systems.
• Support documentation and tracking of project implementation, including participation, activities completed, findings, decisions, adaptations, and project outputs.
• Provide timely and professional communication and follow-up with research participants, faculty, staff, community partners, and collaborating organizations.
• Assist with preparation of study reports, abstracts, presentations, manuscripts, grant-related materials, and other dissemination products.
• Participate in research team meetings and contribute to ongoing project planning, problem solving, process improvement, and evaluation.
• Perform other research coordination activities necessary to support…