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Req #: 231320

Department: DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Posting Date: 02/29/2024

Closing Info: Open Until Filled

Salary: $6,830 - $8,333 per month

Shift: First Shift

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As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty.

The Gynecologic Research and Cancer Equity (GRACE, www.gracecenteruw.com (https://www.thedolllabgroup.com/) ) within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has an outstanding opportunity for a Senior Project Manager (Research Coordinator (E S 9)). The mission of GRACE is to act to investigate and ameliorate causes of disproportionate suffering from benign and oncologic gynecologic health conditions, so that all people may live full and healthy reproductive lives. GRACE supports research and dissemination programs devoted to the study of multi-level causes of health inequity and injustice in gynecologic care, with a focus on marginalized populations. We believe that gynecologic health spans the lifetime and is intimately linked with gynecologic cancers that affect individuals later in life. GRACE research staff have extensive experience in patient and stakeholder engagement, community-academic partnerships, qualitative and quantitative analyses, patient-centered outcomes and comparative effectiveness research, translational research, implementation science, and dissemination to achieve these goals.

How we do our work is as important as the work itself. As a member of the GRACE team, we expect that you will participate in and support the following agreements based on the principles that guide our interactions with each other:

We value kindness, warm community, high quality work, curiosity, growth and radical innovation. We take time to appreciate people’s work and efforts. We trust each other to do a good job and to ask each other for what we need to do so. We also set realistic work plans and timelines, incorporating adequate time for collaboration. We focus on responsiveness with empathy getting others what they need without creating a false sense of urgency.

Improving the work is the work. We will identify opportunities for process improvement and put in place changes. This includes making time to ask for and provide suggestions. We recognize that mistakes are an opportunity to improve processes, tools, and knowledge. Feedback focuses on process, not personal behaviors or characteristics.

We respect and value each member’s experience and expertise. We collaborate to achieve our goals. We focus on transparency and inclusion in decision-making. We define good leadership as developing the power and skills of others.

This position works with OBGYN faculty and staff within GRACE to manage programs of and/or significant components of several research projects of varying size and scope. This new position will be responsible for managing a program of projects centered on The SISTER Study (www.oursisterstudy.org). The SISTER Study is an ongoing multi-site national randomized trial of peer support interventions for Black women with high-risk endometrial cancer funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). GRACE serves as the Intervention Coordinating Center and Stakeholder Coordinating Center for this one-of-a-kind, milestone-driven study that involves 10 sites and hundreds of participants nationwide. SISTER is also the foundation of several other ancillary projects focused on the science of engagement, clinical trial design for marginalized populations, and translational research on the biological impacts of racism. This position will manage these projects and components of multiple projects across GRACE as needed.

In accordance with UW’s relevant telework policies and processes, this position can be a hybrid arrangement that accommodates up to 60% remote work time.

Complexities This is a standing position that will assume responsibility for an ongoing trial that features a complex community-based intervention, currently about halfway to goal enrollment, alongside recently launched ancillary projects that are in early phases. This position will therefore need to navigate the complexities of establishing and maintaining programmatic management strategies for several ongoing projects as well as simultaneously supporting the planning and startup of new projects. This position must also be able to manage components of projects managed by others as needed and interface effectively with a rapidly growing team that works mostly via telework. This position requires engagement with a variety of stakeholders, including physicians, researchers, junior trainees, other personnel (e.g., research coordinators, nurses), patients, and community members. Finally, this position must embrace a collaborative approach, working through tasks and solving problems together, learning from others and giving support as needed, and using various communication tools and strategies that allow GRACE team members to know what others are doing and enable the team to interact together.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Research Project Administration and Management (40%)

• Collaborates with investigators and team members in strategic planning for presenting and publishing study results as well as securing intramural and extramural funding.

• Participates in research planning, advising investigators on best practices to successfully accomplish research objectives.

• Translates research and program plans and projects aims, timelines, and milestones into actionable work plans as well as monitors progress and develops contingency plans.

• Supports investigators in achieving their research objectives efficiently and effectively by identifying, prioritizing, and tracking tasks that specifically require investigator involvement, delegating other tasks to study team members, and representing investigators in meetings and correspondence.

• Manages study teams by translating research objectives, priorities, and/or changes to all members, including those with a highly technical background such as biostatisticians and software developers, and effectively coordinates and participates in meetings.

• Acts as a liaison between investigators, study team members, external site investigators and teams, and funders, ensuring effective communication of goals and priorities as well as relationship management.

• Provides direction to team members in terms of work assignments as well as task prioritization.

• Prepares progress and final reports, and assists in writing technical reports, manuscripts, and external dissemination materials.

• Coordinates the development, writing, and submission of funding proposals.Human Subjects Research Coordination (40%)

• Manages human subjects regulatory applications and oversees the preparation of recruitment and consent materials.

• Designs and delivers training in study activities for internal and external stakeholders.

• Oversees participant recruitment and retention strategies and activities.

• Participates in developing research designs, data collection methods, and strategies for data management.

• Oversees and manages data collection processes and quality assurance monitoring.

• Participates in research data analysis planning, including the formulation of analysis plans and data graphics, as well as qualitative and quantitative analyses as able.

• Ensures the study team complies with University and Federal Regulations and follows best practices based on Center and Department guidance.Research Personnel Management (20%)

• Provides clear assignment of responsibilities, sets objectives, monitors progress, and integrates opportunities for feedback to team members as well as students, trainees, and project research staff.

• Supports the professional development of team members.

• Participates in recruitment and onboarding processes of new team members.

• Perform other duties as assigned. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Master’s degree and a minimum of three years’ experience in a related research area.

• Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Willingness to work collaboratively and in accordance with the GRACE Team Agreements.

• Previous experience with human subjects research and a foundational knowledge of patient-centered outcomes and/or comparative effectiveness research.

• Previous experience managing large and/or multiple research projects.

• Expertise designing, developing, analyzing, and/or maintaining clinical research database structures and systems (e.g., REDCap).

• Ability to interact respectfully, empathetically, and with cultural humility with persons of diverse backgrounds and at all levels of the university and external community groups.

• Demonstrated skills in writing, proofreading, and electronic as well as verbal communications.

• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint) and Zoom and other teleconferencing technologies.

• Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Previous experience working independently or as part of a team writing and submitting grant proposals.

• Ability to manage multi-site research projects. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT Regular and predictable attendance is required. Application Process: The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are access ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.