Job Description

General Information

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Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Flexible Hybrid
Work Schedule
Monday through Friday; 8:00am to 5:00pm
Posted Date
02/26/2026
Salary Range $6541.67 - 13633.33 Monthly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
28949

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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The UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC)—one of only 56 NCI‑designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers nationwide—is recognized for excellence in cancer research, clinical care, education, and community impact. Its mission is to accelerate discoveries that prevent and cure cancer, drive innovation in care, train future scientific leaders, and partner with the community to improve health outcomes across Los Angeles and beyond.

This position supports regulatory compliance for complex clinical research studies and ensures adherence to federal, state, sponsor, and institutional requirements. The role manages regulatory submissions, maintains high‑quality documentation, and collaborates with study monitors to ensure timely, compliant study activation and ongoing study oversight.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review clinical research protocols and prepare, manage, and submit all regulatory documents required by UCLA, FDA, NCI, IRB, and study sponsors.
  
• Maintain complete and accurate regulatory files; ensure timely collection of essential study documents.
  
• Work with study monitors to address queries and ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and policies.
  
• Audit and monitor interventional clinical trials overseen by the JCCC Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB).
  
• Review external monitoring/audit reports for institutional oncology trials and track required follow‑up actions.
  
• Maintain and update the JCCC Clinical Trial Database to meet UCLA, FDA, and NCI reporting requirements.
  
• Interpret regulations and determine applicability to JCCC studies; communicate compliance expectations to study teams.
  
• Review and approve patient eligibility for DSMB‑monitored studies according to established guidelines.
  

Salary: $6,541.67 - $13,633.33 monthly

Job Qualifications

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Required:

• Minimum of 3+ years of experience of clinical research coordination
  
• 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 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.
  
• Demonstrated knowledge of clinical research concepts, policies and procedures, and human safety protection regulations and laws.
  
• 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.
  

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in related area and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  

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.