Assistant Research Professor/Clinical Research Operations Manager

University of Colorado Anschutz

Department: Medicine/Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine

Job Title: Assistant Research Professor/Clinical Research Operations Manager

Position #00850406 – Requisition #40473

Job Summary:

The researcher provides organizational leadership, regulatory and operational oversight for a complex research portfolio for the Colorado Critical Care Research Group (C3RG) at the University of Colorado, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine (PACCM). As the Clinical Research Operations Manager, the person in this key role directs design, preparation, planning, implementation and review of sponsored and investigator-initiated research, ensuring compliance with institutional, local, federal and state standards and policies.  This position oversees the implementation of clinical trials, guides and directs a team of clinical research coordinators, lab personnel, grants and regulatory staff. The incumbent provides daily management/supervision to the clinical research coordinators to promote enrollment, protocol and regulatory compliance, milestone completion, and exemplary conduct and generation of accurate and complete substantiated data of the clinical research activities. Incumbent assists investigators in developing strategic planning goals and initiatives for clinical research.  The candidate in this role may work predominantly implementing team research objectives, as a sub-investigator, or work to advance their own independent research agenda over time.  The candidate will co-develop a career development plan for their own professional growth, facilitated with department input and support.

Key Responsibilities:

• research implementation

• day-to-day leadership

• conduct and management of clinical trials

• grants and contracts solicitation and administration, grant/agreement preparation, review and negotiation

• regulatory compliance, human subject compliance

• budget creation, financial management, audit and procurement functions of the Moss/Burnham PACCM research lab. 

Work Location:

Onsite – this role is expected to work onsite and is located in Aurora, CO

Why Join Us:

About the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine

Thank you for your interest in the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado! Our over 140 faculty are located across four sites: the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, National Jewish Health, Denver Health, and the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System.

We are very proud of our long and illustrious history. Many seminal discoveries in pulmonary and critical care medicine occurred here in Denver, including advances in tuberculosis, interstitial lung disease, airway disease, cancer, and critical care. Many of our former trainees have taken leadership roles in academic medicine, including Division and Department Chairs, Deans, and American Thoracic Society Presidents.

We continue to enhance all aspects of our division and training program, and as a result, we have seen tremendous and sustained growth. The clinical practice sites have built new hospitals, and there are multiple new research building