Strategic Communications Specialist – Clinical Trials Office

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- ** Job Description
** UW Medicine works to improve the health of the public by advancing medical knowledge, providing outstanding primary and specialty medical care to people of the region, and preparing tomorrow’s physicians, scientists and other health professionals. Within the large UW Medicine health system, the School of Medicine (SoM) is a world leader in biomedical research, among the largest biomedical research programs at a public university based on National Institutes of Health funding and ranking among the top research universities internationally.

The Clinical Trials Office (CTO) supports the clinical research mission of UW Medicine. The CTO is an operational unit within the SoM’s Office of Research and Graduate Education charged with providing multi-service support to clinical researchers bringing important new therapies to our patients in compliance with evolving regulatory requirements.

The CTO Strategic Communications Specialist is the face of the operation since they are often the primary developer and distributor of important information about strategic operational changes and improvements. The outreach by the incumbent will include not only internal UW research faculty, staff and administrators, but those from our strategic partner institutions as well.

The position is key for designing and maintaining effective, informative, and creative operating communications and for productively engaging with all of our stakeholders via multiple channels, including websites, staff and leadership forums, operational work groups, printed materials, etc.

This position is a part of the operational CTO leadership and reports to the CTO Director.

The Clinical Trials Office is a central clinical research operation with compliance responsibilities and services across the vast portfolio of clinical trials in UW Medicine. The CTO operation has direct impact on UW reputation with major global biotech and biopharma sponsors and the availability of funded clinical trial opportunities in UW pipeline. In addition, the CTO plays a key role in mitigating institutional financial and reputational risks by ensuring strict compliance with the CMS and the FDA regulations and guidelines.

The CTO Strategic Communications Specialist is a key position to maintain secure, transparent and fully compliant CTO operation.
** DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
**** CTO Training and Strategic Communications
*** Design, develop, introduce and implement research staff and faculty education and training materials
* Organize and present information about CTO services and impact in a dynamic, creative and effective way
* Establish and maintain CTO web presence relevant to all stakeholders that offers meaningful and well-organized information
* Develop and disseminate timely communication about operational changes, improvements and adjustments to our research community
* Design, create and introduce effective research study and research subject-facing content and materials to optimize study recruitment and retention strategies
* Develop and disseminate trial start-up tools and templates for clinical research study teams
* Identify and effectively collaborate with subject matter experts to serve as resource for content development and presentation
* Collaborate with various UW programs and our strategic partner institutions in developing new and improving existing training resources.  Our strategic partners include the UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Fred Hutch), the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA), and Seattle Children’s Hospital (SCH).
* Design and establish effective strategy and materials for onboarding of internal staff
* Continually monitor, evaluate and adjust the training program based on user feedback and operational changes
* Present strategic training, communication and operating improvement ideas to leadership
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