Research Program Coordinator II-Addiction Institute Mount Sinai

Description

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Roles & Responsibilities:

Requirements:

The Research Program Coordinator II supports program leadership and helps manage the activities and functions of the Clinical Trials Division of the Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai (AIMS) to ensure that goals and objectives specified for the program are accomplished in accordance with established priorities, time limitations, funding limitations or other specifications.

The Research Program Coordinator will provide a broad range of program management services for new and ongoing projects including:

Responsibilities
Operational management of clinical trials:
• Maintain operational management of clinical research protocols.
• Oversees and manages the activities of clinical research coordinators, research assistants, and lab technicians, and provides leadership and direction for staff, setting an effective agenda to ensure that performance goals for clinical trials are met.
• Oversees daily operations and coordinates program activities through assigned staff; prioritizes and delegates work activities.
• Develops and independently implements new or revised program goals, strategies and objectives to sustain and grow programs and services for the Clinical Trials Division.
• Develops and schedules a program work plan and schedules in accordance with specifications, objectives, and funding limitations;
• Assist in training staff and conduct of activities related to clinical research studies including tasks such as obtaining screening participants, informed consent, educating participants regarding study requirements, administering research tasks.
• Confers with and advises staff and others to provide technical advice, problem solving assistance, answers to questions and program goals and policy interpretations; refers to appropriate supervisor when unable to respond.
• Prepares periodic reports and records on program activities, progress, status or other special reports for management or outside agencies/funders.
• Reviews applications or other program documents to determine acceptance or make decisions pertaining to program.
• Interacts and maintains liaison with students, volunteers, faculty, staff and outside/community agencies or committees in facilitating program objectives.
• Performs other related duties.
• Supervise Research Coordinators, Lab Techs, and other new staff.
• Provide training on research processes and procedures.
• Develop SOPs for study start-up, procedures, close-out, and other policies (e.g., create instruction manuals for staff to follow, escalating issues if/when they are not resolved).
• Assist with oversight on budgets/funds and spending, including recommending sources/distribution.
• Assist with hiring and onboarding new personnel, including recruitment, outreach, and plenty of liaising with HR.
• Lead operational team meetings and be in-the-know about operational/administrative policy/procedural changes throughout Sinai.
• Attend some project meetings, mostly in the early stages, to help map out what regulatory forms need to be completed and when, as well as at what points new staff need training.
• Assist the Directors and Program Manager in other areas as needed.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Operational Management of Clinical Trials: Manages the implementation of clinical research projects. Delivers broad oversight and direction to research coordinators and other study personnel during initial project set up and ensures study implementation plan follows the approved protocol. Coordinates technical trainings relative to program (e.g., data collection software). Reviews progress of projects regularly and guides research staff to proactively initiate appropriate actions to achieve studies target objectives. Acts as a resource to address issues related to participant accruals and advises research staff to ensure milestones adhere to project timeline. Organizes and leads regular project meetings to ensure completion of project activities within projected timelines and as outlined in study protocols. Communicates project status to Principal Investigators and other concerned parties.
• Regulatory: Assists with the development of new IRB submissions with research staff and oversees IRB amendments and renewals. Helps to maintain regulatory documentation and compliances with polices of NIH, DEA, FDA regulations. Prepares and responds to monitoring visits by internal and external monitors. Works with research associates in the resolution of all issues and assists in resolving complex processing problems. Maintains awareness of study regulatory status and works with research staff to ensure regulatory documents are up to date and on file. Monitors any potential outward effects or issues regarding patient/research participant safety and reports to the Principal Investigators.
• Responds to requests for Program project information, summaries, and data based on information compiled from various sources.
• Prepares and review documents independently and generates status/progress reports for ongoing and pending program related projects.
• Plans, outlines and drafts agendas, and reports.
• Onboards, trains, and manages workflow of junior research support staff (e.g., Research Coordinators, Research Assistants/Volunteers).

Qualifications
Masters in Masters in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Natural Sciences or related field
Knowledge in preparing publication, documents, reports and communication materials for distribution.
Experience managing/directing research project projects and/or grants based programs, and supervising data collection activities.
Aminimum of 2-3 years relevant human subjects research experience in increasinglevels of responsibility. Must have prior experience with management of teams with multiple staff members

Employer Description

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care.When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach theirpotential.

Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experiencediscrimination.

Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments andco-workers.

We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

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Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

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Compensation
The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $62000 - $102999.98 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.

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