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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday- Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm
Posted Date
03/12/2025
Salary Range: $92600 - 202200 Annually
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
21338

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The Clinical Research Supervisor oversees moderate/complex research study coordination.  They will supervise unit operations to ensure compliance with departmental and organizational policies, procedures, and defined internal controls.  They will also supervise operational management of clinical research/trial/study activities from design, set up, conduct, through closeout. They oversee the planning and organizing necessary tasks to ensure adherence to the study protocol and applicable regulations, such as institutional policy and procedures, FDA Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), and ICH Good Clinical Practice (GCP). They will serve as liaison with the Principal Investigator (PI), ancillary departments, central research infrastructure teams, sponsors, institutions, and other entities as needed to support the administration of all aspects of studies, including, but not limited to, compliant conduct, financial management, and adequate personnel support. The responsibilities outlined in the job description provide a general overview of duties and tasks performed the role. Performance of duties and tasks will vary based on the department operations, the type of study and scope of service.

Salary Range: $92,600.00 – 202,200.00 Annually

Job Qualifications

Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training
  • Minimum of 5+ years of experience in  clinical research coordination
  • Minimum 2+ years of direct clinical research supervision
  • Expert level experience and knowledge of clinical trials budgeting processes to manage the preparation of clinical trials budgets.
  • Expert level experience with FDA processes and procedures.
  • Demonstrated ability to serve as a subject matter expert, providing guidance and advice to lower level clinical research coordinators.
  • Expert level working knowledge of clinical research concepts, policies and procedures, and human safety protection regulations and laws.
  • Demonstrated ability to interpret IRB, FDA, federal and UCLA requirements and utilize that information to guide investigators and other team members.
  • Advanced knowledge of and experience working with a variety of local and external IRBs, scientific review and other research committees, national cooperative group sponsors, industry sponsors, federal and foundation funding organizations, etc.
  • Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate information in a timely, professional manner and establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with students, staff, faculty, external collaborators and administration and to work as a member of a team
  • Ability to effectively communicate to and interact with patients in a compassionate and kind manner
  • Ability to set priorities and complete ongoing tasks with competing deadlines, with frequent interruptions, to meet the programmatic and department needs, while complying with applicable University policies and federal and state regulations
  • Analytical skills to assess clinical research protocols and regulatory requirements, define problems, formulate logical solutions, develop alternative solutions, make recommendations, and initiate corrective actions.
  • Organization skills to create and maintain administrative and regulatory files effectively as well as independently balance the various tasks to ensure deadlines are met
  • Demonstrated proficiency with Adobe and Microsoft suite software, especially Excel, to perform daily tasks efficiently and accurately.
  • Ability to handle confidential information with judgement and discretion.
  • Availability to work in more than one environment, traveling to various clinic sites, meetings, conferences, etc
  • Demonstrated analytical skills to address problems of high complexity.
  • Ability to think creatively to develop solutions affecting the full team.
  • Ability to lead the development and implementation of quality improvement activities, SOPs, processes, etc
  • Ability to develop and give presentations to leadership, positively representing the department.
  • Ability to predict potential problems and proactively implement solutions
  • Ability to clearly communicate complex departmental and institution-wide policies and ensure understanding
  • Experience with employee relations and HR issues.
  • Ability to independently and autonomously lead a large and complex unit

Preferred:
  • Clinical Research Certification (CCRP, ACRP, etc.)
  • Master's degree in related area

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.