Project Manager - Jonsson Cancer Center

The UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center's (JCCC) is seeking a Project Manager (PM) for the Division of Clinical Trials Development(CTD) Team to participate in all research activities as part of the clinical research team at UCLA and the Translational Research in Oncology-US (TRIO-US) Network, under the direction of the CTD Manager, investigators, and Senior Management (Clinical Research Unit [CRU] Director of Research and CTD Director). The PM will assist in investigator initiated trial protocol development, study start-up, and maintenance of study regulatory files and submissions to fulfill research requirements. The PM will also work with study teams and study monitors to verify and monitor data to ensure accurate and complete documentation of study patient care and procedures in a timely manner. Work may be assigned by the CTD Manager, Sr. Project Manager and Senior Management, and assignments may be changed on an as-needed basis in order to ensure that studies and patient-care needs are handled appropriately and in a timely manner.

Salary: $30.56 - $60.82 hourly

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in related area and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  
• Minimum of 1+ years of experience as a clinical researcher
  
• 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.
  
• Working 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
  
• 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.