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IRB Coordinator

Gundersen Health System
La Crosse, WI Full Time
POSTED ON 10/9/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/7/2026
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Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Join Emplify Health by Gundersen's Research Institute team as an IRB Coordinator, where your strong communication skills and attention to detail will play a vital role in ensuring compliance with regulatory guidelines while supporting groundbreaking research initiatives.

If you're self-directed, collaborative, and eager to learn, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the field of human subjects' protection!

Primary Responsibilities

  • Serves as administrative support to ensure the effective functioning of the Human Subjects Committee (HSC)/IRB under the leadership of the Chair of the HSC/IRB.
  • Ensures the HSC/IRB complies with all federal rules and regulations
  • Monitors the regulatory environment and recommends changes, as needed, to institutional officials and provides input for policy and procedural changes that ensure compliance.
  • Reviews proposed research, Informed Consent documents and amendment-specific content for compliance with federal, state and local regulations. Recommends category of review, assesses risk and evaluates the need for further clinical or professional review of research.
  • Monitors for and reports serious non-compliance issues/concerns to the IRB Chair.
  • Enrolls, monitors and ensures timely completion of required regulatory education for research investigators and research staff


What’s Available

  • 40-hours a week, 1.0 FTE
  • Starting rate of $22.90/hr more for experience
  • Eligible for remote/hybrid, MUST LIVE in Wisconsin, Iowa or Minnesota
  • Monday – Friday; typical business hours 8:00a-4:30p


What You’ll Need

  • Associate degree in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) or social sciences, with 3-4 years' experience in research administration, IRB administration, bioethics, or a related field
  • Bachelor’s degree in clinical research, health care administration, bioethics, or other health related degree is preferred


What You’ll Get

  • A comprehensive and generous benefits package (Medical, Dental, Life Ins, HSA/FSA) ensuring your comfort and well-being as a valuable team member
  • Substantial retirement contribution including 401k match & annual discretionary base contribution
  • Work/Life Balance: Paid Time Off (PTO) combines vacation, sick, and personal days into one balance to allow you the flexibility to use your time off as you need
  • Support for your career growth through Professional Development Opportunities, our Tuition Investment Program, and Career Development Center
  • Other benefits include a Wellness program with incentives, employer-paid life insurance and AD&D, optional short-term and long-term disability coverage, an employee assistance program, identity theft protection, pet insurance, Inspire & Celebrate colleague recognition and rewards program, a discount program, and more!
  • Unlimited potential at one of the leading health systems in the midwestern United States


Emplify Health, a partnership of Bellin Health and Gundersen Health System, is a leading not-for-profit, patient-centered healthcare network based in Green Bay and La Crosse, Wisconsin. With 11 hospitals and over 100 clinics, we serve 67 cities across Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Join us in making a meaningful difference in the lives of our patients and communities.

If you need assistance with any portion of the application or have questions about the position, please contact HR-Recruitment@gundersenhealth.org or call 608-775-0267.

We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values — belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility — our pillars set our foundation and our future.

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