Senior Research Administrator

Embark on a rewarding career with Detroit Medical Center Shared Services. If you are a compassionate healthcare professional eager to contribute to patient care, this is your opportunity where your skills make a difference every day. Join us in delivering exceptional healthcare with a personal touch.

Benefits

At Tenet Healthcare, we understand that our greatest asset is our dedicated team of professionals. That’s why we offer more than a job – we provide a comprehensive benefit package that prioritizes your health, professional development, and work-life balance. The available plans and programs include:

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
• Generous paid time off (PTO)
• Career development and continuing education opportunities
• Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
• Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
• Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and is determined by employment status.

About the Role

Under the direction of the System Executive Director, the DMC Clinical Research Office has the primary responsibility of reviewing, evaluating, and auditing clinical research studies submitted for DMC Research Review. This role conducts billing coverage analyses on clinical studies and consults with principal investigators and research coordinators on the appropriate wording in patient consent forms, study agreements, and protocols to mitigate billing risk.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and designs processes to ensure compliance with protocol and quality data acquisition, including procedures for subject enrollment and registration for DMC clinical services.
• Coordinates with DMC hospitals' registration, coding, accounting, finance, and billing to assure the research revenue cycle is compliant.
• Prepares reports for VHS compliance and Internal Auditing.
• Provides support to investigators, physicians, and fellows in compliant study protocol development, regulatory documentation, and protocol procedures.
• Provides DMC research charge information for investigators' study budgets in compliance with NIH guidelines.
• Works with investigators and industry sponsors to accurately capture all billable events to be covered by the sponsor.
• Collaborates with accounting and finance to assure accurate invoicing and billing.
• Oversees study procedures and maintains study documentation in accordance with established Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 21-regulations, and applicable statute(s).
• Assures IRB approval is obtained prior to initiation of studies.
• In collaboration with study investigator(s) and in a manner consistent with the Declaration of Helsinki and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), assures the protection of the patient's rights and safety.
• Reports adverse events according to IRB, Sponsor, and FDA guidelines.
• Collaborates with the IRB of record on overseeing research integrity and patient safety issues.
• May facilitate external monitoring and auditing of research activities.
• As assigned, interviews, schedules, orients, and trains research coordinators and ancillary staff.
• Reviews clinical site agreements (contracts) and acts as liaison between involved parties.
• Ensures that charges for study-related care and subject stipends are properly documented and charged to study guarantor accounts.
• Responsible for maintaining awareness of new regulatory issues and identifies new research activities.
• Provides support to supplementary projects that advance the goals of the department and the institution's mission, vision, and values.

Requirements

• BS/BA Degree
• Minimum of five years experience as a research coordinator or administrator
• Four years of progressively more responsible project management experience in a healthcare research setting

About the Facility

The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) is a nationally recognized healthcare system that serves patients and families throughout Michigan and beyond. A premier healthcare resource, our mission is to help people live happier, healthier lives. The hospitals of the Detroit Medical Center include:

• Children's Hospital of Michigan
• Detroit Receiving Hospital
• Harper University Hospital
• Hutzel Women's Hospital
• DMC Heart Hospital
• Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital
• Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan
• Sinai-Grace Hospital

DMC's 150-year legacy of medical excellence and service provides patients and families with world-class care in cardiovascular health, women's services, neurosciences, stroke treatment, orthopedics, pediatrics, rehabilitation, organ transplant, and other general and specialty services. DMC is a key partner in Detroit's resurgence and is one of the largest and most diverse employers in Southeast Michigan.