Job Description

Come join our team! Under the direction of Dr. Amy Merrill-Brugger, The Merrill Lab investigates the cause of rare congenital skeletal conditions to identify new therapeutic targets for skeletal disease and resolve unanswered questions in skeletal biology.

The Research Program Administrator will work with Principal Investigator Dr. Amy Merrill-Brugger to coordinate all aspects of building a research program. This will included, development of infrastructure, overseeing clinical research staff, quality assurance, and coordination of grant activities and grant proposals. Administrator will identify improvement areas, prepare policies, train staff, and audit procedures to create an efficient clinical research program

What are the Primary Duties and Responsibilities?

• With the Principal Investigator or Department Head, coordinates all aspects of building a research program including the development of infrastructure and new research programs.
• Oversees an entire research program or group of Clinical Research Coordinators, Clinical Research Assistants, Clinical Research Associates, and/or Research Nurses.
• Oversees research Quality Assurance and Quality Control within their department or division.
• Coordinates grant activities pre award through closure (monitoring budgets, compliance, progress reports).
• Identifies process improvement areas to assure an efficient and robust clinical research program.
• Data compilation, assists with grant proposals, protocol development, scientific publication preparation, and presentations.
• May train junior research staff members.
• Involved in centralized activities such as auditing and preparation of clinical research policies and standard operating procedures.
• Ensures compliance with all federal and local agencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and local Institutional Review Board.
• Maintains research practices using Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines.
• Maintains strict patient confidentiality according to HIPAA regulations and applicable law.
• Participates in required training and education programs.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree preferred. Master's Degree highly preferred.
• Five (5) years of directly related experience required.
• Certification in clinical research (ACRP or SOCRA) preferred.
• Ability to use discretion and maintain privacy, confidentiality or anonymity.
• Developmental Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, or Genetics experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience in mouse colony management is highly desired.

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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