CLINICAL RESEARCH SPECIALIST, SR
- Employer
- Duke University
- Location
- Molecular Physiology
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- Administrative Jobs
- Academic Affairs, Research Staff & Technicians
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
This Position is Fully Grant Funded
School of Medicine Established in 1930, Duke University School of Medicine is the youngest of the nation's top medical schools. Ranked sixth among medical schools in the nation, the School takes pride in being an inclusive community of outstanding learners, investigators, clinicians, and staff where interdisciplinary collaboration is embraced and great ideas accelerate translation of fundamental scientific discoveries to improve human health locally and around the globe. Composed of more than 2,500 faculty physicians and researchers, more than 1,300 students, and more than 6,000 staff, the Duke University School of Medicine along with the Duke University School of Nursing, Duke University Health System and the Private Diagnostic Clinic (PDC) comprise Duke Health. a world-class academic medical center. The Health System encompasses Duke University Hospital, Duke Regional Hospital, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Duke Primary Care, Duke Home and Hospice, Duke Health and Wellness, and multiple affiliations.
Clinical Research Specialist, Sr. The Duke Molecular Physiology Institute (DMPI), a part of Duke University School of Medicine, occupies a place of national and international leadership in the fight against major diseases. Our mission is to produce integrated multi-omics and physiologic profiles of chronic human diseases, and to use such profiles to develop new disease detection strategies, novel therapies, and insights into disease mechanisms. A full-time Clinical Research Specialist, Sr. is needed to join a DMPI study team conducting human subject clinical research on the Duke Center for Living campus. This Clinical Translation Research Division within the DMPI conducts multiple federal and industry funded projects involving healthy individuals, individuals with type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases of various sorts, those at risk for diabetes and other cardiometabolic diseases, rheumatic diseases, as well as other clinical conditions. This candidate will work closely with PIs and other members of a well-established clinical research team to support ongoing physiological studies involving muscle and fat biopsies, serial blood sampling, body composition analysis, strength assessments, cardiorespiratory fitness evaluations, and supervised exercise interventions. This position serves as a critical liaison between clinical trial participants and multiple study teams within the research operation. Specifically, this position will lead study recruitment efforts and participant screening for multiple complex studies according to protocol guidelines as well as track recruitment success rates to help identify recruitment barriers. In addition, this individual will employ strategies to maintain subject recruitment and retention rates, engage internal and external resources to support recruitment efforts, develop effective recruitment campaigns and study advertisement materials, assist research personnel in scheduling participants for study visits, use software necessary for study operations independently, collect and document data in electronic and written form to maintain confidential participant screening records, and respond to queries associated with subject data collection. Qualified candidates must be well-organized, conscientious, display critical thinking skills, possess strong interpersonal skills, and exhibit proficiency with basic Microsoft Office software. The candidate must have an ability to multi-task in a dynamic work environment, knowledge of medical terminology, and familiarity with medical chart review. The position requires excellent communication and exceptional customer service skills as well as a collaborative attitude to facilitate a strong team environment. The successful applicant will demonstrate a positive attitude and an ability to connect with potential research volunteers so they may understand complex study requirements and gain trust in clinical research. Job duties will involve, but not be limited to, conducting subject recruitment and screening efforts for various research studies to meet enrollment targets, tracking recruitment strategies and reporting agreggate screening outcomes to the PI and study team, identifying and implementing new methods for subject recruitment, designing and publishing study advertisements in various media, managing subject phone calls and interest in response to study recruitment campaigns, maintaining proper participant-level documentation, performing associated data entry, and facilitating the transition from study screening to study participation for research volunteers.This is a full-time, remote position supporting a research team located at the Duke Center for Living campus in Durham, NC.
Competitive salary with exceptional benefits, 403b, and paid time off.
Start date: August 2022
Education, Skills, and Experience:
- Minimum of an Associate’s degree
- Educational background or experience with medical terminology and medications
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail and excellent communication skills
- Exceptional customer service skills with an ability engage a wide range of individuals at all levels of authority
- Strong computer skills with competency in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
Education
Work requires an Associate's degree.
Experience
One year of relevant experience. A Bachelor's degree may substitute for required experience.
Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.
Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.
Organization
History
Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.
As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.
Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.
Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.
Mission Statement
"James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'
“To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.
“By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”
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