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San Francisco is the primary location, will work in Oakland occasionally.
The Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC) independently manages and coordinates research protocols under general direction. Responsibilities include overseeing multiple clinical studies, ensuring regulatory compliance, managing data and documentation, supporting IRB submissions, maintaining data quality, coordinating staff activities, and participating in audits while adhering to UCSF policies and research guidelines.
Please address the following questions in a cover letter:
- What skills and experience do you have that make you a good fit for this position?
- Describe your experience with research, clinical trials, working with patients, children, families, or diabetes.
- Describe your organizational skills and provide an example of how you handle competing priorities.
- What are your plans for the next 2-3+ years (are you planning to go back to school, if so, what program/timeline for matriculation, etc.)?
- Do you speak any other languages? If so, which one(s)?
- The hours are generally 40 hours per week, with some occasional evening and weekend hours. Are you able to commit to this schedule and be on-site at UCSF Mission Bay Campus approximately 3-5 days per week and at UCSF Oakland Campus approximately 1-2 days per week?
- If selected for this position, when would you be able to start?
Required Qualifications:
* HS graduation and sufficient experience and demonstrated skills to successfully perform the assigned duties and responsibilities; and/or equivalent experience/training.
* Attention to detail; strong interpersonal skills; excellent, effective verbal and written communication skills to coordinate with subjects, team members, other departments and outside institutions; and the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment while working with a diverse subject population.
* Ability to work well independently, complete projects in a timely manner, and prioritize multiple projects to ensure the completion of essential tasks by deadlines.
* Understanding of patient population to create rapport and a relationship, while also giving insight to what is realistic and appropriate for patient participation.
* Experience and comfort working with children, adolescents, and families.
* Computer proficiency, experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
* Experience with basic statistics. Preferred Qualifications:
- BA/BS degree
- Completed undergraduate-level course or relevant experience that provides familiarity and understanding of scientific inquiry and hypothesis-driven research.
- Completed undergraduate-level course or relevant experience that provides conceptual understanding of basic human physiology.
- Practical experience with clinical research design and execution, including participant recruitment and data collection.
- Fluency in the usage of Institutional Review Board (IRB) online iRIS system for submission, renewal, and modification of protocols through this system.
- Familiarity with REDCap or Qualtrics.
- Knowledge of UCSF and departmental policies for dealing with reimbursement, guidelines for research, confidentiality and HIPPA regulations, following the UCSF mission statement and purpose for research, and a clear understanding of policies and procedures on patient safety and confidentiality (electronic and hard copy medical records, patient charts, communication, etc.); knowledge of medical terminology, research policies and guidelines, guidelines for packing/shipping infectious substances, database building/analysis, and data management within some of the following: Access, Stata, SASS/ SPSS, and Teleform programming platforms.
- Experience with electronic medical records.
- Knowledge of type 1 and type 2 diabetes and diabetes devices.
- Career interest in working with children and/or adolescents and their families.
- Proficiency in spoken and written Spanish.
- Experience applying the following regulations and guidelines:
- Good Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Health Information and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- The Protection of Human Research Subjects
- CHR regulations for recruitment and consent of research subjects
- Effective Cash Handling Procedures
- Environmental Health and Safety Training
- Fire Safety Training
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University of California - San Francisco
Apr 07, 2026