Project Coordinator Pharmacoepidemiology C4HDS

The Center of Healthcare Delivery Science (C4HDS) is recruiting a Research Coordinator (RC) to join its team. C4HDS is an academic research center in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The Center’s activities focus on identifying, designing, and rigorously evaluating interventions to improve the quality of health care, with a focus on medication use. Our studies combine techniques from behavioral science, machine learning, and implementation research and incorporate influences from other fields including economics, health policy, biostatistics, epidemiology and clinical medicine. Unlike typical research groups, the Center’s work involves close collaborations between academic researchers and groups that deliver care, administer health insurance benefits and/or develop technologies for improving healthcare. The Center’s largest projects involve “real world” randomized controlled trials that seek to identify simple and scalable strategies for enhancing patient and provider engagement. The design and conduct of these studies must creatively blend rigorous research methods with the operational realities faced by organizations that deliver healthcare.

The RC will be an integral part of the team, managing the implementation of several research protocols, as well as contributing to study start-up processes and monitoring activities. The CRC will function under the direction of the C4HDS Program Manager and/or Executive Director to help with day-to-day management of pragmatic trials and Center activities.

Specific duties include:

1. Coordinates the implementation of clinical research studies.

2. Coordinates and develops project-related deliverables including project plans, PowerPoint presentations, status reports and meeting facilitation documents.

3. In conjunction with Project Manager and/or Principal Investigator, develops and implements new research protocols including design, data collection systems and regulatory approval.

4. Maintain research data, patient files, regulatory binders, and study databases and perform quality assurance data checks.

5. Presents status updates, findings and recommendations to internal and external stakeholders as needed for assigned projects.

6. Develops and revises surveys, interviews and other instruments as needed for research projects, assuring ease in administration and accuracy of data entry, as needed.

7. Complete study reports for sponsor as requested under PI and/or Program Manager direction.

8. Use social media as a tool to promote communication of clinical trials and Center activities.

9. Performs other research and administrative duties as assigned.

Hybrid work environment. The candidate will work primarily in a professional office environment, business casual, with the opportunity to work remotely 1-2 days per week.

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Works within legal, regulatory, accreditation and ethical practice standards relevant to the position and as established by BWH/Partners; follows safe practices required for the position; complies with appropriate BWH and Partners policies and procedures; fulfills any training required by BWH and/or Partners, as appropriate; brings potential matters of non-compliance to the attention of the supervisor or other appropriate hospital staff.

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• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience working in a clinical research environment.
• Knowledge of clinical trial process, procedures and regulations, including patient recruitment and site management.
• Understanding of effective data collection techniques with skills in data management and analysis and appropriate use of databases, such as REDCap.
• Understanding of and ability to comply with protocols and instructions along with the ability to effectively work with internal resources, including the IRB.
• Administrative skills to support own work and that of the Principal Investigator and others, including meeting management, presentations and data entry.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to demonstrate professionalism and respect for research subjects’ rights and individual needs.
• Strong attention to detail and quality, and ability to manage multiple projects and think independently.
• Computer literacy including Microsoft applications.

• Capable of prioritizing among multiple requests from multiple individuals and able to change direction in response to fluctuating work requirements.