Research Coordinator II - College of Nursing

About the Role

The University of Florida College of Nursing seeks a Research Coordinator II to support SURVIBENE-LT, a five-year NIH/NIDDK-funded, multi-site research study focused on improving liver transplantation decision-making and patient outcomes. This 0.50 FTE, grant-funded position is expected to continue for the duration of the project and involves coordinating day-to-day research operations, supporting collaboration among project partners, maintaining study documentation, facilitating regulatory and administrative activities, and assisting with project implementation and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day activities across UF, the University of Minnesota, the Cleveland Clinic, and external collaborators.
• Project planning, implementation, and milestone management: Develop and maintain project timelines, milestone trackers, work plans, meeting schedules, deliverable logs, and action-item trackers. Monitor progress across study aims and participating sites, identify delays or operational risks, and communicate concerns and recommend next steps promptly to the Principal Investigator.
• Multisite coordination, meetings, and communication: Organize project, workgroup, advisory-panel, and site meetings; prepare agendas and materials; document decisions; distribute meeting records; and monitor follow-up activities.
• Regulatory, data-access, and personnel coordination: Track IRB, data-access, data-use agreement, privacy, training, and study-documentation requirements across participating sites. Assist with personnel onboarding, required training documentation, system and data-access requests, and maintenance of regulatory and study records.
• Financial, administrative, and NIH reporting support: Support monitoring of project budgets, subawards, purchasing, travel, and expenditures in coordination with the Principal Investigator and research administration. Maintain organized files and supporting documentation for NIH progress reports, audits, publications, presentations, and other dissemination activities.
• Advisory, engagement, dissemination, and site activities: Coordinate advisory-panel, ethics, patient-engagement, dissemination, and site-visit activities. Assist with scheduling, materials, documentation, follow-up, and communication with participating stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in health sciences, public health, nursing, research administration, project management, informatics, or another appropriate field and two years of relevant research or project coordination experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Qualifications

• Preferred: Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Experience coordinating NIH-funded, federally funded, or multisite research.
• Knowledge of research administration, IRB processes, data-use agreements, regulatory documentation, and institutional research procedures.
• Experience developing and maintaining project plans, milestones, budgets, meeting documentation, and progress reports.
• Strong written, verbal, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, exercise sound judgment, and follow projects through completion.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams that include clinicians, researchers, data scientists, administrators, patients, and external institutions.
• Familiarity with transplantation, clinical research, health informatics, artificial intelligence, or electronic health record data is desirable but not required.

Pay

$30,000–$35,000 annually; commensurate within this range based on qualifications and experience.

This is a time-limited, 0.50 FTE position.