US - Coordinator II, Clinical Research

Company Overview

Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

With 20 hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family’s ability to pay or insurance status. Please click here to learn more about our locations.

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Job Description

The Clinical Research Coordinator II (CRC) is a specialized, independent research professional who ensures oversight and compliance of both system-wide and local SHC clinical research activities. Reporting to the Clinical Research Program Manager or (local Hospital Administrator / Clinic Director) and Research Programs Office at SHC International Headquarters, the CRC provides support in accordance with SHC’s policies and procedures, SHC’s hospital regulations, the Code of Federal Regulation, and Good Clinical Practice guidelines, when applicable. The CRC works closely with the Chief of Staff, SHC scientific and medical staff and other research personnel to ethically recruit and consent SHC’s vulnerable pediatric subjects and to appropriately collect and safeguard data. Overall, the CRC is the site’s primary liaison among research participants, the local investigator(s) and study sponsor(s). This position’s main responsibilities are to help ensure proper study conduct, subject safety, and the quality of data and data safeguards. Shriners Portland has an opportunity for a Clinical Research Coordinator II to join our team!

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintains a contemporary knowledge of clinical research regulatory requirements. Has a working knowledge of the complex clinical research process, from protocol development to implementation
• Responsible for tracking all aspects of projects including all study, investigator and Institutional Review Board (IRB) information, patient recruitment activity, and financial management
• Works closely with investigators, research leadership, study sponsor and regulatory agencies to conduct and report the results of clinical research
• Coordinates the collection, statistical analysis and dissemination of data results throughout a clinical study. Evaluates protocols under consideration for feasibility, including the process for data collection, entry, storage and reporting
• Safeguards all participants involved in a research study supported and approved by Shriners Children's
• Facilitates the local site’s research programs and projects through collaborative, timely communications and teamwork
• Provides expertise consultation and mentorship to site staff, residents, students, and volunteers with respect to research processes, Good Clinical Practices, and regulations governing clinical research. Interacts with other departments in a professional and timely manner to facilitate research coordination.

Required Qualifications:

• Without a Bachelor's degree, 5 or more years of specific job-related experience in the administration of clinical research
• 3 or more years Clinical research experience, e.g. experience with site management, study management, IRBs, and federal regulations regarding clinical research compliance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Clinical Research, science or other healthcare related field
• Master's Clinical Research, science or other healthcare related field
• Experience in the coordination of intergroup or multi-site clinical studies
• CCRP or CCRC certification