Nurse Project Manager

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Posted Job Title

Nurse Project Manager

Job Profile Title

Clinical Research Nurse D

Job Description Summary

The Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) is a world leader in developing and conducting innovative clinical trials for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. The ACC Clinical Research Unit (CRU) is instrumental in the development and implementation of cancer clinical trials that offer cutting-edge oncology treatments. The ACC CRU is currently comprised of 12 Research Teams that support disease/discipline specific cancer programs within the ACC.

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

• The Nurse Project Manager will report directly to the Director of Clinical Research Operations for the Center for Cell Therapy & Transplant (CCTT) and indirectly to CRU Central – Associate Director, Clinical Research Operations. The successful candidate will serve as a clinical research nurse (CRN) for the CTT team and Project Manager of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network (BMT CTN) portion of our research portfolio to oversee projects related to BMT CTN.  This includes assisting with study feasibility and start-up, training of new staff and study procedures, development of operational workflows, and implementation of quality improvement processes.  This is in addition to serving as the assigned CRN on many of our actively enrolling BMT CTN clinical trials.

  The Nurse Project Manager will serve in a CRN role for assigned research trials including complex Phase I-IV BMT or IEC clinical trials.  This includes study activities needed for activation, coordination of study visits, assessment of adverse events and documentation, placing orders in the EMR, coordination across departments and divisions in support of trial activities, in-service and collaboration with infusion or inpatient staff as appropriate, participation in study- and patient-related discussions in-person or via email or telephone with the sponsor, family, colleagues, support staff or other entity that may occur outside of usual work hours. He/she will act as a point-of-contact for triage, laboratory, clinic, infusion, radiology, advanced practitioners, inpatient, billing and pharmacy and monitors/auditors, database query resolution and/or biospecimen when research coordinator is unavailable or when issues involve escalation. He/she is expected to troubleshoot operational issues on a daily basis and assist with other research trials during absences or when a specific team member’s workload exceeds capacity.

  The Nurse Project Manager will work closely with the ACC-CRU-CTT Director of Clinical Research Operations to develop and implement specific initiatives to promote the BMT CTN and ensure collaboration and communication across all stakeholders. He/she will liaise with the larger BMT CTN international network,