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The Department of Psychiatry is seeking a candidate to coordinate research activities for tobacco research studies led by Dr. Tracy Smith. These NIH and FDA-funded studies focus on tobacco regulation, e-cigarettes, and tobacco flavoring. The candidate will primarily have an administrative and leadership role, and will coordinate activities for multiple clinical trials. They will oversee IRB submissions and amendments, purchase supplies, manage grant budgets, track participant recruitment, schedule participant visits, create study databases, and train research assistants on study procedures. The candidate will act in a leadership role to other study staff. Occasional after-hours and weekend work will be required, and travel to other MUSC research sites within South Carolina may be needed occasionally.

Entity

Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC - Univ)

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type​

Research Grant

Cost Center

CC001039 COM PSYCH Addiction Science CC

Pay Rate Type

Salary

Pay Grade

University-06

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Work Shift

Job Description

FLSA: Salaried

Payscale Salary Range: UNIV-Band 6: $43,030.00 - $61,323.00 - $79,616.00 (min - mid - max)

Job Summary: The Department of Psychiatry is seeking a candidate to coordinate research activities for tobacco research studies led by Dr. Tracy Smith. These NIH and FDA-funded studies focus on tobacco regulation, e-cigarettes, and tobacco flavoring. The candidate will primarily have an administrative and leadership role, and will coordinate activities for multiple clinical trials. They will oversee IRB submissions and amendments, purchase supplies, manage grant budgets, track participant recruitment, schedule participant visits, create study databases, and train research assistants on study procedures. The candidate will act in a leadership role to other study staff. Occasional after-hours and weekend work will be required, and travel to other MUSC research sites within South Carolina may be needed occasionally.

Job Duties:

• Research Operations: Synthesizes and interprets recruitment reports to assess effectiveness of recruitment strategies, implements innovative solutions to maximize recruitment, provides oversight and training to entire team on participant screening, provides oversight and training to study team regarding study visits and participant documentation, creation of study SOPs, creates systems to collect biospecimens and maintains inventory of biospecimens, provides oversight to study team on informed consent process, handles investigational tobacco product, ensures studies are carried out according to good clinical practices, creates regulatory submissions for all studies, oversees adverse event collection, completes IRB reportable events. (30%)
• Leadership and Professionalism: Encourage and support colleagues in completing project work. Identifying efficiencies and improving processes. Serves as an expert mentor to junior staff, assigns research activities of multiple teams to accomplish study goals, creates strategies to enhance diversity in clinical trials. (20%)
• Site and Study Management: Oversees and is responsible for budget development, monitor budget reports and expenditures, serves as an internal quality assurance monitor and develops protocol specific quality assurance plans, allocates resources as a study level, develops training manuals and SOPs, ensures study teams are compliant with institutional requirements and provides training to staff around these policies. (20%)
• Data and Informatics: enters data independently, trains others on data entry, creates and develops completes databases, creates data collection forms according to protocol. (10%)
• Ethics and Participant Safety: Provides data for monitoring reports including DSMP and COI, understands ethical conduct of research and safeguards. (10%)
• Communication: Prepares for, participates, and leads study meetings, takes an active role in decision making, trouble-shoots issues and communicates with other team members accordingly. (5%)
• Scientific Concepts and Research Design: Participates in the grant development process under supervision of Dr. Smith. (5%)

MUSC Minimum Training and Experience Requirements: A bachelor's degree and two years relevant program experience.

Preferred Training and Experience:

• MPH preferred
• 5 years of experience working on human research studies
• Interest in public health
• Experience managing multi-site clinical trials
• Training in Good Clinical Practices
• RedCap programming knowledge
• Experience with social media advertising, preferably with meta business suite
• Detailed oriented and ability to handle multiple tasks.
• Leadership experience

MUSC Physical Requirements:

(Note: The following descriptions are applicable to this section: Continuous - 6-8 hours per shift; Frequent - 2-6 hours per shift; Infrequent - 0-2 hours per shift)

Ability to perform job functions in an upright position. (Frequent)
Ability to perform job functions in a seated position. (Frequent)
Ability to perform job functions while walking/mobile. (Frequent)
Ability to work indoors. (Continuous)
Ability to work outdoors in all weather and temperature extremes. (Infrequent)
Ability to work in confined/cramped spaces. (Infrequent)
Ability to perform job functions from kneeling positions. (Infrequent)
Ability to squat and perform job functions. (Infrequent)
Ability to perform 'pinching' operations. (Infrequent)
Ability to fully use both hands/arms. (Frequent)
Ability to perform repetitive motions with hands/wrists/elbows and shoulders. (Frequent)
Ability to reach in all directions. (Frequent)
Possess good finger dexterity. (Continuous)
Ability to maintain tactile sensory functions. (Continuous)
Ability to lift and carry 15 lbs., unassisted. (Infrequent)
Ability to lower objects, up to 15 lbs., from height of 36 inches to floor level, unassisted. (Infrequent)
Ability to push/pull objects, up to 15 lbs., unassisted. (Infrequent)
Ability to maintain 20/40 vision, corrected, in one eye or with both eyes. (Continuous)
Ability to see and recognize objects close at hand. (Frequent)
Ability to see and recognize objects at a distance. (Frequent)
Ability to determine distance/relationship between objects; depth perception. (Frequent)
Good peripheral vision capabilities. (Continuous)
Ability to maintain hearing acuity, with correction. (Continuous)
Ability to perform gross motor functions with frequent fine motor movements. (Frequent)

Additional Job Description

A bachelor's degree and two years relevant program experience.

If you like working with energetic enthusiastic individuals, you will enjoy your career with us!

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