Research Coordinator- Sickle Cell Disease

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta hires a Research Coordinator to support investigators in designing studies, obtaining approvals, managing research data, and ensuring safe patient care. The role coordinates participant activities and study visits, maintains regulatory compliance, and supports clinical research administration.

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• Healthcare
• Non Profit
• Children
• Health Care
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Responsibilities

• Develops, conducts, and facilitates research protocols
• Supports investigators in writing study protocols
• Performs participant screening, enrollment, study activities, and communication
• Coordinates study visits and procedures, including specimen acquisition, transport, documentation, and shipment
• Maintains equipment and supply resources for research studies
• Completes data management activities and ensures data integrity
• Assists in the development and completion of source documents and case report forms
• Participates in sponsor correspondence, monitoring, and study meetings
• Monitors compliance throughout all study activities and engages compliance oversight as needed
• Directs patient interaction to conduct research protocols
• Obtains informed consent by following policy, procedure, and regulatory requirements
• Schedules study-specific visits in conjunction with ancillary departments
• Administers various research surveys in accordance with research study requirements
• Completes research-only testing as required and applicable per study and system requirements, including electrocardiograms
• Performs phlebotomy if trained to do so
• Provides research study education to participants as part of a study protocol
• Completes documentation as needed within the medical record
• Manages all regulatory processes related to clinical research activities
• Completes Institutional Review Board preparation, submission, modifications, reporting, and termination activities
• Maintains all licensure, certification, and system education requirements for role
• Maintains all regulatory documents
• Assist with facilitating grants, contracts, and financial tasks for research and clinical trials
• Assist with supporting Principal Investigator in study budgeting, sponsor interactions, routing, feasibility assessments, account management, and reconciliation
• Completes research administrative duties according to Children’s policies regarding Epic enrollment, Clinical Trial Management System data entry, patient care invoice accuracy
• Participates in education activities to support specific research activities and primary role at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
• May participate in departmental policy and quality projects
• Completes departmental, system-wide, and study-specific education as required

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in Health or Biological Sciences
• Glassdoor
• 4.0
• Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is a non-profit private foundation that focuses on healthcare for children.
• Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• http://www.choa.org
• H1B Sponsorship
• Data Powered by
• Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
• Represents job field similar to this job
• Engineering and Development
• Accounting and Finance
• Education and Training
• Customer Service and Support
• Management and Executive
• Trends of Total Sponsorships
• *2026
• (5)
• 2025

Qualifications

• One year of research experience. May substitute required experience with equivalent years of education beyond the minimum education requirement
• Bachelor's degree in a scientific, health related, or business administration related program or relevant experience in lieu of education
• Basic Life Support (BLS) within 30 days of employment if role requires patient contact
• ARUP Handling, Packaging and Shipping Infectious Substances or similar within 30 days of employment if role requires specimen acquisition
• Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) within 30 days of employment
• Working knowledge of state and federal regulatory guidelines related to research
• Good computer skills including working knowledge of a PC and Microsoft Office (Word, Access, and Excel)
• Self-directed and motivated to work independently toward short- and long-term goals
• Good communication, organization, and interpersonal skills
• Good working relationships with colleagues, subordinates, and superiors
• Bachelor's degree in Health or Biological Sciences

Required skills

• ARUP Handling, Packaging and Shipping Infectious Substances, Basic Life Support (BLS), Clinical Research, Clinical Trial Management Systems, Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI), Epic, Informed Consent Administration, Institutional Review Board (IRB) Processes, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Access, Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office Word, Phlebotomy, Research Data Management, Research Protocol Development, Research Regulatory Compliance

Preferred skills

• $6.36M, (1), (2), (4), (5), *2026, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025, 4.0, 75, Accounting and Finance, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Bachelor's degree in Health or Biological Sciences, Customer Service and Support, Data Powered by, Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship, Education and Training, Engineering and Development, Glassdoor, H1B Sponsorship, Hyundai Hope On Wheels, Key Investors, Late Stage, Management and Executive, Represents job field similar to this job, Total Funding, Trends of Total Sponsorships, http://www.choa.org

Experience

• 1+ years