Description

The Division of

Pediatric Infectious Diseases within the David Geffen School of Medicine at

UCLA, seeks an ACTG/IMPAACT Laboratory Center Specialist to join their Clinical

Trials Laboratory Center. The Laboratory Center Specialist will work closely

with Protocol Team Leadership to implement clinical trials protocols and

coordinate laboratory-related committees and working groups. The Laboratory

Center Specialist will also review protocol testing, laboratory quality

assurance information, and support capabilities required to conduct global

clinical trials.

Please note that this is a full time 12 month contract position and

may convert to career.

Salary Range: $71500.00 - $154900.00 Annually

Qualifications

Required:

• Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate information in a timely, professional manner and establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with students, staff, faculty, external collaborators and administration and to work as a member of a team.

• Ability to set priorities and complete ongoing tasks with competing deadlines, with frequent interruptions, to meet the programmatic and department needs, while complying with applicable University policies and federal and state regulations.

• Analytical skills to assess clinical research protocols and regulatory requirements, define problems, formulate logical solutions, develop alternative solutions, make recommendations, and initiate corrective actions.

• Close attention to detail to ensure accuracy in a fast-paced, fluctuating workload environment.

• Organization skills to create and maintain administrative and regulatory files effectively as well as independently balance the various tasks to ensure deadlines are met.

• Demonstrated proficiency with Adobe and Microsoft suite software, especially Excel, to perform daily tasks efficiently and accurately.

• A learning and professional growth mentality so that new software tools, systems, and processes can be adopted quickly and efficiently.

• Demonstrated knowledge of clinical research concepts, policies and procedures, and human safety protection regulations and laws.

• Knowledge of and experience working with a variety of local and external IRBs, scientific review and other research committees, national cooperative group sponsors, industry sponsors, federal and foundation funding organizations, etc.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's Degree

• Minimum 3+ years of clinical research coordinator experience

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