Coordinator II, Clinical Research

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Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

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Job Description

Shriners Children's Portland is seeking a full-time Clinical Research Coordinator II to join our team! The Clinical Research Coordinator is a specialized, independent research professional who ensures oversight and compliance of both system-wide and local SHC clinical research activities. The CRC provides support in accordance with our policies and procedures, hospital regulations and the Code of Federal Regulation and Good Clinical Practice guidelines. The CRC works closely with the Chief of Staff, SHC scientific and medical staff and other research personnel to ethically recruit and consent SHC’s vulnerable pediatric subjects and to appropriately collect and safeguard data. Overall, the CRC is the site’s primary liaison among research participants, the local investigator(s) and study sponsor(s). This position’s main responsibilities are to help ensure proper study conduct, subject safety, and the quality of data and data safeguards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintains a contemporary knowledge of clinical research regulatory requirements. Has a working knowledge of the complex clinical research process, from protocol development to implementation.

• Works closely with investigators, research leadership, study sponsor and regulatory agencies to conduct and report the results of clinical research.

• Coordinates both system-wide and local SHC clinical research activities

• Provides support in accordance with SHC's policies and procedures, SHC's hospital regulations, the Code of Federal Regulation and Good Clinical Practice guidelines, when applicable

• Act as primary liaison among research participants, the local investigator(s) and study sponsor(s)

• Ensure proper study conduct, subject safety, and the quality of data and data safeguards

• Subject recruitment and data/specimen collection of SHC's system-wide projects.

Required Qualifications:

• 3 or more years Clinical research experience, e.g. experience with site management, study management, IRBs, and federal regulations regarding clinical research compliance

• Without a Bachelor's degree, 5 or more years of specific job-related experience in the administration of clinical research

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in Clinical Research, science or other health-care-related field

• Master's Clinical Research, science or other health-care related field 

• Experience in the coordination of intergroup or multi-site clinical studies

• CCRP or CCRC certification 


Compensation is determined based on years of relevant experience and departmental equity.