The Clinical Research Coordinator will work with Maya Vijayaraghavan, MD MAS, Division of General Internal Medicine on three studies: 1) Extended intervention for tobacco use for people experiencing homelessness, a Tobacco Related Disease Research Program funded grant on providing a pharmacy-linked and health coach delivered wellness intervention for tobacco use for people experiencing homelessness. We plan to conduct the clinical trial in SF and Los Angeles with 150 people. The incumbent will be responsible for study procedures in SF. 2) A smoke-free intervention in federally subsidized housing, a National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities funded grant. This study is a cluster randomized controlled trial of an intervention to increase adoption of smoke-free homes among low-income adults living in federally subsidized housing in three bay area counties - Contra Costa, San Francisco and Oakland. The smoke-free home intervention is an intervention aimed at increasing adoption of smoke-free homes among adults who are smokers who are living in permanent supportive housing. We plan to recruit up to 600 participants across 20 to 30 housing sites in the San Francisco Bay Area. We will deliver the intervention in English, Spanish, Chinese (spoken Mandarin and Cantonese) and Vietnamese. 3) San Francisco Cancer Initiative, Providing Medication Assistance for tobacco cessation in homeless shelters and navigation centers in SF. Here, we connect clientele in shelters and navigation centers with a pharmacist to deliver smoking cessation treatment. We will assess tobacco abstinence using expired carbon monoxide and conduct air nicotine samplers. The clinical research coordinator will assist with data collection, management of the day-to-day operations of these studies, data management, and assist with protocol management and approvals.

The Clinical Research Coordinator will perform independently or with general direction at the fully operational journey level of the series to execute, manage, and coordinate research protocols, as directed by the Clinical Research Supervisor and/or Principal Investigator (PI); may coordinate the data collection and operations of several concurrent clinical research studies under the guidelines of research protocols, UCSF and regulating agency policies.

Incumbent's duties may include, but will not be limited to supporting the management and coordinating the tasks of single or multiple clinical research studies, depending on their size and complexity; act as intermediary between services and departments while overseeing data and specimen management; manage and report on study results; create, clean, update, and manage databases and comprehensive datasets and reports; coordinate staff work schedules, assist with training of Assistant CRCs, and assist Clinical Research Supervisor and/or PI with oversight of other research staff; manage Investigator's protocols in the Committee on Human Research online system, as well as renewals and modifications of protocol applications and the implementation of new studies; participate in the review and writing of protocols to ensure institutional review board approval within University compliance; help assure compliance with all relevant regulatory agencies; oversee study data integrity; implement and maintain periodic quality control procedures; interface with departments to obtain UCSF approval prior to study initiation; maintain all regulatory documents; report study progress to investigators; participate in any internal and external audits or reviews of study protocols; and perform other duties as assigned.

The Clinical Research Coordinator will serve as the primary research staff for this study, and they will take a leading role in implementing research protocols and operationalizing research protocols in the field. Their roles will include: serving as the primary interventionist for the study. Setting up the research database in RedCap; creating surveys in RedCap; assisting the PI with recruitment and data collection; assisting with implementing the randomization scheme; submitting modifications to the IRB and Oncore; serving as point of contact between the PI and staff at the federally subsidized housing sites; taking the lead in communications with study sites and community partners; scheduling data collection times at the field sites; assisting the PI with conducting in-depth interviews and administering questionnaires among participants; coding transcripts from qualitative interviews using Atlas ti. Qualitative data analysis software; record keeping; conducting data collection at the study sties, and traveling to study sites for data collection and community meetings. The CRC will also be involved in all day to day activities, such as developing participant tracking methods, designing study interviews, and holding the responsibility for real time in the field decision making about study activities/procedures, and managing communications with the study partners.

The Clinical Research Coordinator will work under the guidance of the PI and other senior staff on the PI's team, and will conduct data collection at the federally subsidized housing sites, shelters/navigation centers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Administrative, record keeping, coding of transcripts, and project coordination activities will take place either at the PI's office/clinical research coordinator's office at Wayne Gladys Vision Building and/or Pride Hall at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital or at a mutually agreed upon location with the clinical research coordinator.

The Clinical Research Coordinator will be expected, after a period of training and observation, to work independently under the PI's guidance. For instance, the PI and/or senior staff will accompany the Clinical Research Coordinator for initial recruitment at the study site, prior to having the clinical research coordinator conduct recruitment and enrollment on his/her own. The position will require a somewhat flexible work schedule with some days at regular hours and some days where work will begin earlier and end earlier or begin later and end later to accommodate the clinics' schedule and participants' schedules.

The Clinical Research Coordinator will be expected to recruit and follow-up with participants who may be monolingual in Spanish, and thus proficiency in English and Spanish is a requirement. The candidate will be the primary interventionist for the study and will help in recording the intervention in Spanish.

The Clinical Research Coordinator will be required to work in person and travel to sites in the San Francisco Bay Area including San Francisco, Oakland, and Contra Costa County.

The final salary and offer components are subject to additional approvals based on UC policy.

Your placement within the salary range is dependent on a number of factors including your work experience and internal equity within this position classification at UCSF. For positions that are represented by a labor union, placement within the salary range will be guided by the rules in the collective bargaining agreement.

The salary range for this position is $34.32 - $55.19 (Hourly Rate).

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