Lead Research Project Manager 19.99 Hrs. (Institutional of Translational Science - Galveston)

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Master's degree or equivalent and three years related experience
  
   

Job Description:

Works with Principal Investigator, study team and senior department administration to assure that project budgets and schedules are executed in a timely manner.

Job Duties:
 

• Serves as the principal project coordinator for facilitation of the research project and the principal contact on projects for administration, regulatory/compliance officials, UTMB’s Office of Sponsored Programs and sponsors as appropriate. 
• Manages contracts for submission of deliverables and adherence to approved budgets. 
•  Assures efficient compliance with deliverable/milestone schedules on each project. 
• Minimizes exposure and risk on research project by evaluating research protocol for regulatory/compliance issues. 
• Effectively manages multi-disciplinary, multi-investigator research projects. 
•  Creates and monitors research project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements. 
•  Coordinates the collection of research data and the development of project related documents. 
• Ensures research project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately. 
• May provide team leadership through mentoring.  Identifies opportunities for improvement and makes constructive suggestions for change. 
•  Serves as liaison to sponsor as appropriate. 
•  Facilitates communication with project teams on research progress and reporting of results. 
• Adheres to internal controls and reporting structure 
   

WORKING ENVIRONMENT/LOCATION OF POSITION: 

• Standard hospital, clinical, laboratory and/or office environments. 
• May be exposed to such occupational hazards such as communicable diseases, harmful chemicals, and/or disoriented or combative patients. 
• Describe travel requirements and other physical demands of job

Salary Range:
Commensurate with experience