Manager Research Programs- Martinsburg

About the role

This role participates in the design, execution, analysis and evaluation of health-related projects. This role manages activities associated with biomedical and/or social-behavioral research studies and special projects considered very complex by the inclusion of several of the following: multiple investigators, teams, sites, sub-contracts, participants, longitudinal assessments/ interventions; and/or multi-million-dollar budgets.

Responsibilities

• Manages research and community engaged projects
• Maintains project schedules and calendars
• Oversees completion of study and project activities per protocol
• Ensures that study and project protocols are in compliance with appropriate rules and regulations and reviews study and project progress and recommends revisions, amendments, and/or other study and project changes as necessary to better meet needs of sponsors
• Reviews scientific literature and evaluates and recommends applicable techniques and procedures
• May create and/or manage research study and project budget which may include deciding on and approving expenditures of funds based on budget
• Purchases project supplies, materials, equipment and services
• Directs, assigns duties to and may supervise study project personnel and research assistants
• Affords assistance to researchers in a broad array of areas including, clinical trials, biostatistics, data analysis
• Affords assistance in hiring of grant funded research personnel
• Creates data for use in grant submission and develop new proposals for research including obtaining financial support
• Ensures that all study and project documents associated with current local, state, and federal regulatory guidelines, requirements, laws and research protocols are completed in a timely manner
• Prepares materials for IRB (Institutional Review Board)
• Arranges and attends meetings, seminars, symposia and other events related to the core activities
• Attends program related community meetings and performs outreach
• Gathers and analyzes data
• Contributes to the development of project related web material, educational materials, and social media content
• Engages community partners to participate in community engaged research and other health related projects

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in social or health science or related field, five (5) years of human subject research experience, two (2) years of project coordination experience
• Prioritized Qualifications: Master’s degree, Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) certification, experience writing IRB submission, protocol development, data collection, and data analysis, experience writing grant applications and proposals, experience developing grant budgets and managing grant funding