Senior Clinical Research Program Manager

• Lead the planning, implementation, and ongoing management of large, complex, multi-year clinical, public health, community-based, and population health research programs, including federally funded projects.
• Partner with PIs and research faculty to translate scientific aims, study protocols, grant commitments, and sponsor requirements into operational plans, timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
• Maintain a strong working understanding of research objectives, study designs, populations, interventions, outcomes, and data collection requirements to effectively manage program implementation.
• Manage a portfolio of multiple research grants and projects concurrently, maintaining oversight of scope, timelines, milestones, deliverables, budgets, staffing, recruitment, and sponsor requirements.
• Develop and maintain project management systems and dashboards to monitor performance, identify risks, and provide PIs and leadership with timely information on project status.
• Proactively identify scientific, operational, financial, and resource challenges and work with investigators and project teams to develop and implement solutions.
• Coordinate activities across investigators, research teams, collaborating institutions, clinical sites, community partners, subcontractors, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure timely completion of sponsor deliverables, progress reports, and other grant or contractual requirements.
• Lead the development and implementation of participant recruitment, enrollment, retention, and engagement strategies for human subjects research.
• Establish recruitment plans and performance targets aligned with approved protocols and funded research objectives.
• Monitor recruitment and enrollment performance and develop corrective strategies when established milestones are not being achieved.
• Oversee operational workflows for participant identification, outreach, screening, informed consent, enrollment, scheduling, follow-up, data collection, and retention.
• Work with investigators, clinical partners, community organizations, and research teams to identify and address barriers to recruitment and participation.
• Ensure research activities are implemented efficiently and consistently with approved protocols, study requirements, and participant protections.
• Coordinate regulatory and compliance activities associated with human subjects research, including IRB submissions, amendments, continuing reviews, protocol documentation, and required approvals.
• Ensure research activities comply with institutional policies, sponsor requirements, approved protocols, and applicable federal regulations.
• Establish appropriate research documentation, standard operating procedures, quality-control processes, and audit-ready records.
• Partner with PIs, research administration, finance, and pre- and post-award teams to support effective management of sponsored research.
• Partner with Research Administration team to monitor project budgets, expenditures, staffing, personnel effort, subawards, contracts, and other financial activities in relation to approved grant plans and project progress.
• Identify budget variances, resource needs, and other issues that may affect successful project implementation.
• Support grant submissions, progress reports, modifications, renewals, and closeout activities as appropriate.
• Supervise, mentor, and provide day-to-day leadership to research project coordinators, research assistants, and other program personnel as assigned.
• Establish clear roles, responsibilities, performance expectations, and accountability across project teams.
• Assess staffing and resource requirements across the research portfolio and make recommendations to PIs and research leadership.
• Facilitate project meetings and communication across multidisciplinary teams and ensure appropriate follow-up on decisions and action items.
• Serve as a key liaison among PIs, faculty investigators, research staff, institutional leadership, sponsors, collaborating organizations, healthcare partners, and community stakeholders.
• Promote collaboration, accountability, operational consistency, and continuous improvement across the research portfolio.

• Strong understanding of public health, clinical or community-based research, and human subjects research principles.
• Ability to understand scientific aims, study designs, research protocols, and methodologies and translate them into executable operational plans.
• Advanced project and program management skills with the ability to oversee multiple complex research projects simultaneously.
• Strong knowledge of participant recruitment, enrollment, engagement, and retention strategies.
• Knowledge of IRB development and processes, human subjects protections, research compliance, and federal sponsored-research requirements.
• Strong financial and analytical skills, including research budget and resource management.
• Demonstrated ability to identify risks, solve complex operational problems, and drive projects to successful completion.
• Strong leadership and staff-management skills with the ability to build accountability across multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills and the ability to work effectively with investigators, senior leadership, sponsors, research staff, healthcare organizations, and community partners.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment, manage competing priorities, and operate effectively in a complex, deadline-driven research environment.

Education

• **Doctoral or clinical degrees listed above combined with an MBA or other advanced degrees in business, management, or administration strongly preferred.