Data Operations Associate Director

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington.

With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy and COVID-19 vaccines, Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states.

Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the world’s deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.

At Fred Hutch we value collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity and respect. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity, dignity and inherent value of each employee, patient, community member and supporter. Our commitment to learning across our differences and similarities make us stronger. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems.

The Associate Director, Data and Operations for Infectious Disease Clinical Trials provides day-to-day leadership for data management and data-related clinical-trial operations and research activities supporting vaccine, monoclonal antibody, and other infectious-disease prevention studies. The position primarily supports the HIV Vaccine Trials Network Statistical and Data Management Center (HVTN SDMC), while also contributing to sponsored clinical trials and research programs involving quantitative data analysis for other pathogens, including TB, SARS-CoV-2, and other viral respiratory diseases.

The Associate Director (AD) provides data and operational leadership for the HVTN SDMC, with responsibility for coordinating, overseeing, and advancing the HVTN’s clinical-trial data and operations portfolio. This role provides day-to-day management of SDMC activities; supports the implementation of network strategic priorities; and helps ensure that scientific, operational, data, regulatory, fiscal, and sponsor requirements are met across a complex, multi-site and international clinical-research program.

The AD builds and sustains effective working relationships with internal and external collaborators, including leadership of the Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research (SCHARP), our data management partner; program operations staff in our academic home program, the Biostatistics, Biomathematics, and Epidemiology (BBE) Program; the HVTN Laboratory and Leadership Operations Centers; study teams; investigators; sponsors; and other research partners. The AD represents the HVTN SDMC’s multiple Principal Investigators (PIs), as appropriate, in operational, cross-functional, and sponsor-facing discussions, and facilitates timely communication, alignment, and decision-making among stakeholders.

In partnership with the HVTN SDMC PIs and Center leadership, the AD provides oversight of operational planning, performance monitoring, resource allocation, external vendors and services, and fiscal management. The role makes and implements day-to-day management decisions related to clinical-trials research, with particular emphasis on data quality, data-management processes, study conduct, operational readiness, timelines, deliverables, risk management, and continuous improvement. The AD also contributes to evaluating SCHARP performance and to implementing strategic decisions made by HVTN leadership and,…