Research & Database Coordinator; Rheumatology

Position: Research & Database Coordinator (Rheumatology)
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** Job Category
** M&P - AAPS##
** Job Profile
** AAPS Salaried - Research and Facilitation, Level A### ##
** Job Title
** Research & Database Coordinator (Rheumatology)### ##
** Department
* * Tucker Laboratory | Department of Paediatrics | Faculty of Medicine### ##
** Compensation Range**$5,365.42 - $7,709.92 CAD Monthly The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.###

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** Posting End Date
** January 12, 2026
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* Note:

** Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.
** Job End Date
** December 31, 2026

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students.

Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.
** JOB SUMMARY
** To coordinate database and clinical research activities for the Division of Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics.
** ORGANIZATIONAL STATUS
** Position to whom this person reports:
Dr. Lori Tucker, Division Head (for overall function);
Dr. David Cabral (for database role); and individual investigators within the Division (for specific research studies).Positions with whom this person works:
All Division members involved in the Rheumatology research program, including physicians, allied health professionals, laboratory technicians, research coordinators, research assistants, undergraduate co-op students, , post-graduate students working on specific projects, collaborators, and divisional clerical support staff.

Contacts (internal and external to the University):
Institutional Review Board (UBC) and Hospital Research Review Committee (C&W), finance departments at UBC, BCCHR, and PHSA, other individuals who are working in equivalent research positions either in the institution or in other institutions who are research collaborators, patients and parents of patients involved in research studies.

Shared office space in the Division of Rheumatology, Ambulatory Care Building, BC Children's Hospital. Desktop computer and telephone access available. Flexibility in work hours may be required.
** WORK PERFORMED
** As database coordinator:
* Coordinate database activities for Rheumatology’s REDCap instances
* Design and develop study data collection tools, in collaboration with the Principal Investigators and/or study staff
* Manage user account creation, passwords, log-in issues
* Database modifications and updates
* Produce reports and perform data exports based on requests from investigators
* Troubleshoot issues and liaise with external data management consultants or IT staff
* Data review, locking, query generation and resolution
* Liaising with technical IT staff to periodically upgrade database software

As research coordinator:
* Coordinate the clinical research activities for the Division of Rheumatology. This includes an international childhood vasculitis study led by Dr. David Cabral, and other smaller-scale national or local research studies
* Submission and maintenance of research ethics approvals, renewals, amendments
* Communicate with collaborators (investigators and research staff) and provide study updates and documents necessary for ethics, patient recruitment, and data / sample collection at 15-20 study sites
* Liaise with the UILO and other institution’s legal departments regarding clinical study agreements and budgets
* Coordinate and balance complex schedules to arrange study team meetings, as well as meetings with internal and external collaborators. Work with investigators to generate meeting agendas, distribute meeting materials, and generate meeting minutes.
* Participate in hiring and supervision of…