General Information

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Work Location: Santa Monica, CA, USA

Onsite or Remote

Flexible Hybrid

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm

Posted Date

07/17/2026

Salary Range: $38.19 - 61.45 Hourly

Employment Type

2 - Staff: Career

Duration

Indefinite

Job #

31742

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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The Department of Medicine is seeking a Data Coordinator to play a key role in advancing innovative clinical research that improves patient care and scientific discovery. In this dynamic position, you will oversee the day-to-day operational management of clinical research studies throughout the entire study lifecycle-from protocol development and study start-up through conduct and closeout. Working closely with Principal Investigators, sponsors, multidisciplinary clinical teams, and external partners, you will coordinate research activities, ensure regulatory compliance with institutional policies, FDA regulations, and ICH Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines, and help drive the successful execution of one or more clinical trials. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly organized and collaborative professional to contribute to impactful research while supporting high-quality, compliant study operations and participant care.

Hourly range: $38.19-$61.45

Job Qualifications

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Required:

• Bachelor's degree in related area and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimally 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 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.
• 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.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively establish rapport, building collaborative relationships, and communicate complex concepts and ideas in an easy-tounderstand 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 in 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

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.

Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.