Job Description

General Information

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Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Flexible Hybrid
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm
Posted Date
03/11/2026
Salary Range $36.37 - 58.52 Hourly
Employment Type
4 - Staff: Limited
Duration
18 months max - May convert to career
Job #
29178

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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The Clinical Research Coordinator will join a centralized clinical research team conducting clinical trials across multiple pediatric sub-specialties. Under the direction of the Clinical Research Supervisor, the Clinical Research Coordinator will manage and coordinate clinical trial activities.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, participant recruitment, assessment of trial eligibility, enrollment, coordination of research visits, collection and management of participant source documents, regulatory submissions and file maintenance, data management, and specimen handling. The Clinical Research Coordinator is responsible for adhering to institutional and federal clinical research requirements and ensuring studies are conducted in accordance with study protocols and Good Clinical Practice.

This role requires the ability to adapt to changing priorities and work flexible hours to meet research deadlines. Travel to other locations may be required. This position is primarily on-site at the UCLA Westwood campus.

This is a limited position that may convert to career.

Salary Range: $36.37 - $58.52 Hourly

Job Qualifications

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Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or 2+ years of previous study coordination or clinical research coordination experience
• Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate information in a timely, professional manner and establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with students, staff, faculty, external collaborators, and administration and to work as a member of a team.
• Ability to effectively communicate and interact with patients in a compassionate and kind manner.
• Ability to set priorities and complete ongoing tasks with competing deadlines, with frequent interruptions, to meet the programmatic and department needs, while complying with applicable University policies and federal and state regulations.
• Analytical skills to assess clinical research protocols and regulatory requirements, define problems, formulate logical solutions, develop alternative solutions, make recommendations, and initiate corrective actions.
• Close attention to detail to ensure accuracy in a fast-paced, fluctuating workload environment.
• Organization skills to create and maintain administrative and regulatory files effectively as well as independently balance the various tasks to ensure deadlines are met.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Adobe and Microsoft suite software, especially Excel, to perform daily tasks efficiently and accurately.
• A learning and professional growth mentality so that new software tools, systems, and processes can be adopted quickly and efficiently.
• Working knowledge of clinical research concepts, policies and procedures, and human safety protection regulations and laws.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively establish rapport, building collaborative relationships, and communicate complex concepts and ideas in an easy-to-understand manner.
• Ability to adapt to changing job demands and priorities, remain flexible including working flexible hours to accommodate research deadlines.
• High degree of concentration and focus on a work environment that contains distracting stimuli, competing deadlines, and work delegated by more than one individual.
• Availability to work in more than one environment, travelling to various clinic sites, meetings, conferences, etc.

Preferred:

• Knowledge of and experience working with a variety of local and external IRBs, scientific review and other research committees, national cooperative group sponsors, industry sponsors, federal and foundation funding organizations, etc.

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.