Project Manager, Breast Cancer Clinical Research

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Posted Job Title

Project Manager, Breast Cancer Clinical Research

Job Profile Title

Clinical Research Project Manager A

Job Description Summary

The Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) of the University of Pennsylvania is a world leader in developing and conducting innovative clinical trials for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. The mission of the ACC Clinical Research Unit (CRU) is to advance the science of cancer care, serve our patients by improving clinical outcomes, and offer the best available innovative care to trial participants. The ACC 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. This Project Manager will have support of the ACC CRU-Breast Research Team.

The Project Manager position will directly report to the Lead Research Nurse and Team Manager of the Abramson Cancer Center (ACC), Clinical Research Unit (CRU) - Breast Research Team. The successful candidate will work closely with Physician leader of this ACC CRU Research Team and Lead Research Nurse and Team Manage to oversee aspects of the clinical research portfolio being performed for their research program. He/she will oversee the start-to-end processes for study start-up and ongoing study management. This includes assisting with study feasibility and selection, working closely with the ACC CRU Regulatory coordinators and/or ACC CRU Central to manage, review and initiate trials to ensure competitive activation and enrollment timelines. The Project Manager is expected to actively manage ongoing research projects, troubleshoot operational issues daily and assist with any and all aspects of clinical research coordinator’s work during absences or when a specific team member’s workload exceeds capacity (including, but not limited to, managing the team member’s portfolio including budgets, patient visits, transporting specimens, data entry, query resolution and working with study monitors).

The Project Manager will work closely with major internal (PI, ACC CRU Central – Operations, Regulatory, Education/QA, Budget, Legal, Finance, Billing Compliance, Infusion/CHPS, Investigational Drug Services/Pharmacy) and external (sponsors, facilities, CROs, Subcontractors, Collaborators) stakeholders to support study start up and day to day operations, as needed, of clinical research activities for their team.

The Project Manager for the ACC CRU Breast Research Team will support Phase I-IV clinical trials. Additional activities may include serving as a backup to the clinical research coordinators in supporting recruitment, and enrollment of patients according to protocol requirements for their team. He/she may schedule patient visits and any necessary testing, monitor patients per protocol requirements and ensure adherence to protocol requirements, organize, and maintain all documentation required by the sponsor or CRO – includes source documentation, case report forms, and research charts. He/she may collect, review and report study data, complete case repor