Manager, Clinical Trial Activation

About the role

Core Job Summary The Manager, Clinical Trials Activation leads a defined team and handles the day-to-day activities of an assigned portfolio, such as the review of the financial provisions of moderately complex research agreements, grant applications and awards, and the development and negotiation of research budgets in adherence to sponsoring agency, federal, state and University of Miami requirements, ensuring all documentation complies with the University policies and other applicable rules and regulations. Working within established work processes, policies and procedures, the Manager meaningfully contributes to the ongoing processes improvement and assists with drafting support documents, templates and other tools to facilitate research budgets development and secure fiscally sound and compliant financial provisions for research agreements.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.

Responsibilities

• Leads assigned team members, providing day-to-day leadership, mentorship, oversight and guidance.
• Participates in recruiting and onboarding; trains, mentors and supervises staff.
• Prepares performance reports.
• Prepares standard to moderately complex Medicare Coverage Analyses (MCAs); develops and negotiates research budgets and financial terms of the various research agreements and provides recommendations to advance such projects in an efficient and compliant manner.
• Participates in discussions and provides relevant input to leadership on short-and long-range objectives for assigned programs and projects.
• Creates reports, data summaries and engages in statistical analysis pertaining to the team.
• Tracks research budgets and payment terms development and negotiations and assists with day-to-day work distribution and team’s performance monitoring.
• Works directly with staff to monitor day-to-day work progress and assist with routine work-related issues.
• Collaborates with University and external research entities on assigned projects and joint functions to ensure that sponsored research projects are managed in an efficient and effective manner consistent with UM policies and procedures and applicable extramural