The incumbent will serve as the Project Manager for a national multi-site trial comparing strategies to improve pain self-management using complementary and integrative health modalities.  The incumbent will oversee day-to-day study coordination activities at multiple VA sites as well as at the SFVAHCS.

Job Responsibilities:

• Assist the Principal Investigator in developing, implementing and leading a complex multi-site randomized controlled trial comparing behavioral health interventions
• Write complex study protocols, consent forms and all other materials requiring IRB approval and maintain detailed manual of operations
• Obtain all human subjects and other regulatory approvals required to begin and continue study operations
• Coordinate the daily study operations across all 6 study sites. This will involve coordinating, scheduling, and conducting regular national conference calls and several in-person and/or virtual meetings and site visits
• Conduct in-person and/or virtual meetings including preparing agendas and power point presentations, delivering presentations, and moderating Q and A sessions with groups of co-investigators, study teams and/or study stakeholders, which will include veterans
• Assist in convening an Advisory Committee to oversee study activities
• Develop essential study components, including point-of care data collection and formulate standard operating procedures to standardize execution of study procedures across sites.
• Manage a data core which will involve the supervision of a data manager as well as overseeing other staff on the data team; work closely with the data manager to maintain and enhance data collection through the study database
• Work closely with all co-investigators, study collaborators, and coordinators across all six sites in all three time zones in the U.S. to implement the study protocol and operating procedures at each site
• Coordinate with NIH and NCIRE (local) Contracts and Grants staff and other study team members to meet regulatory and sponsor reporting
• Serve as the primary contact for the study across all study sites
• Handle systems for tracking / monitoring study progress to ensure adherence to milestones, timelines, IRB-approved study protocol, and other applicable regulations
• Maintain essential research study documentation
• Develop recruitment strategies and materials to meet enrollment goals of the study; identify recruitment barriers and formulate solutions
• Actively recruit study participants through email, phone, and outreach events
• Oversee data collection, management and analysis activities
• Assist in summarizing interval and final study results and outcomes
• Prepare progress reports for funding agencies
• Assist PI with all aspects of travel for study activities
• Conduct literature reviews