Clinical Research Coordinator – Pediatrics

The Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC) will be part of a centralized clinical research team conducting clinical trials and registries across multiple pediatric subspecialties, with a focus on supporting clinical research in pediatric neurology, neurodevelopment, and neurodevelopmental disorders. The ideal candidate will have a strong interest in neuroscience, psychology, or child development, with prior experience working with children with special needs or developmental disabilities preferred. Under the direction of the Principal Investigator(s) and Clinical Research Supervisor, the CRC will coordinate a portfolio of clinical research studies and ensure adherence to study protocols and applicable research regulations. Responsibilities include participant recruitment, facilitating informed consent processes, preparing for and attending research visits to ensure protocol compliance, creating and maintaining source documentation and participant and regulatory files, collecting and managing data, and handling research specimens. The CRC will plan and execute study-related tasks to ensure compliance with established protocols and regulatory requirements. The role requires flexibility, strong organizational skills, and the ability to adapt to changing priorities and work flexible hours to accommodate research deadlines. Travel to other locations may be required. This position is primarily on-site at the UCLA Westwood campus.

Salary Range: $38.19 - $61.45 Hourly

All Required:

- Bachelor’s Degree and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimally 2+ years of previous study coordination or clinical research coordination experience
- 1-2 years’ experience supporting clinical research in pediatric neurology, neurodevelopment, or neurodevelopmental disorders. Strong interest in neuroscience, psychology, or child development and experience working with children with special needs or developmental disabilities is preferred
- 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 effectively communicate and interact with patients in a compassionate and kind manner.
- 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.
- Organizational 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.
- 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.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively establish rapport, building collaborative relationships, and communicate complex concepts and ideas in an easy-to understand manner.
- Ability to adapt to changing job demands and priorities, remain flexible including working flexible hours to accommodate research deadlines.
- High degree of concentration and focus in a work environment that contains distracting stimuli, competing deadlines, and work delegated by more than one individual
- Availability to work in more than one environment, travelling to various clinic sites, meetings, conferences, etc
- Demonstrated ability to communicate medical, policy and administrative information in English.

As a condition of employment , the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.
Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.