Research Operations Director
1 day ago
About Safe Kids Worldwide
Safe Kids Worldwide is a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing unintentional injuries among children ages 0-14. We collaborate with strategic partners and a network of coalitions in the U.S. to prevent injuries from various causes, including traffic, drownings, sleep-related deaths, falls, burns, poisonings, and more.
We achieve our goals through research, education, safety device distribution, and advocacy at federal, state, and local levels. Our approach focuses on public health, incorporating research, interventions to educate and raise awareness, safety device distribution, and advocacy.
About This Role
The Research Operations Director will serve as a senior research professional overseeing operational and financial management of research projects under the direction of the Chief Medical Officer, Chief Research and Network Officer, and Principal Investigators. This individual will work independently and supervise research project support staff, overseeing daily activities, mentoring, guiding through demonstration of best practices, providing coverage when needed, and offering opportunities for professional development.
Key Responsibilities
- Supervise study support staff, including training, delegating tasks, overseeing daily activities, mentoring, guiding through demonstration of best practices, providing coverage when needed, and offering opportunities for professional development.
- Facilitate interactions among team members and/or project participants; exhibit inclusive approach to decision making and goal-setting processes; encourage participation from team members; consistently recognize the contributions of other team members.
- Advise and mentor other project managers on approaches to resolving operational problems.
- Schedule and facilitate research team meetings. Plan agenda and ensure that minutes are taken, edited, and distributed.
- Serve as a leader of others, forming a top team with balanced capabilities, setting the mission, values, and norms, holding team members accountable individually and as a group for results.
- Establish, build, and sustain professional contacts for building networks of people with similar goals that support similar interests.
- Demonstrate ethical and professional practices, stimulating social accountability and community stewardship.
- Act as a role model for other professionals by communicating responsively, respectfully, and assertively with the research team, staff, and research participants/families.
- Collaborate with internal and external collaborators throughout all phases of the research process.
Project Management
- Coordinate and facilitate the research project management life cycle, including initiation, development, and implementation of various studies.
- Responsible for scoping, coordinating early research activities, training research staff, and managing the completion of investigational forms.
- Coordinate research project teams and manage research project timelines to ensure milestones are completed within the specified timeline and in line with annual objectives.
- Assume primary responsibility for ensuring study compliance with applicable government regulations, data access rules, and privacy regulations, as necessary.
- Ensure studies are properly resourced, managed, and executed within budget and in accordance with established timelines and quality standards.
- Meet regularly with stakeholders, including research staff, sponsors, and study teams, to collect and communicate business and research requirements and set expectations for research-related work.
- Responsible for completing both research and project management deliverables, including project plans and research schedules, progress reports, and investigational applications.
- Assist Principal Investigators with monitoring expenses, facilitating contracts, ordering materials, and documenting all approved variances.
- Ensure compliance and monitor performance of investigational sites/subcontracts for studies; prepare accurate and timely visit reports from all site interaction visits.
- Lead education of and document creation for SOPs, tutorials, guidance, and supplementation forms supporting data collection, subject recruitment, organizational management of organizational requirements, and overall efficient study conduct.
- As directed by the PI, act as liaison between Sponsor Agencies (e.g., NIH, Foundation, and Partnering Universities) and internal study team, communicating study timelines while proposing and implementing solutions to problems jeopardizing the schedule or quality of studies.
Research Management
- Assist with developing and writing proposals to obtain funding for ongoing and future research activities.
- Assist with selecting the most appropriate methodology and techniques for facilitating the research.
- Responsible for producing qualitative and quantitative research plans, designing research questionnaires and moderator guides.
- Work with research project teams (on-site and/or off-site) and project and research leads to coordinate fieldwork initiatives and conduct pre-research and post-research analyses and evaluations.
- Liaison with Institutional Review Board (IRB) for submissions, correspondence, and regulatory binders, including administrative amendments.
- Work with research team to facilitate and ensure protocol adherence, quality assurance, and HIPAA compliance.
- Consistently ensure timely sponsor/data center and IRB submissions by the PI and study team, adhering to reporting requirements to the IRB, institutional department, sponsor, as well as local and federal agencies.
- Collect data, summarize, and interpret research data.
- Collaborate with Principal Investigators and research project teams to author journal articles and present findings at research seminars and conferences.
Organizational Strategic Planning
- Contribute to the strategic plan for the Research Department, including short-term and long-term objectives, monitor and evaluate programmatic and operational effectiveness, and effect changes required for improvement.
- Identify problems and opportunities and address them, bringing those that are appropriate to the leadership, and facilitate discussion and deliberation.
- Compile and analyze data to support upper management decision-making.
Benefits and Compensation
This position offers a competitive salary range of $78,083.20 - $130,145.60 per year, depending on experience. In addition to a generous compensation package, we offer a dynamic and supportive work environment, opportunities for professional growth and development, and a comprehensive benefits program.
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