Lead Research Project Manager 19.99 Hrs. (Institutional of Translational Science - Galveston) **Galveston, Texas, United States** **New** Research Academic & Clinical UTMB Health Requisition # 2505251 **Minimum Qualifications:** + Master's degree or equivalent and three years related experience **Job Description:** Works with Principal Investigator, study team and senior department administration to assure that project budgets and schedules are executed in a timely manner. **Job Duties:** + Serves as the principal project coordinator for facilitation of the research project and the principal contact on projects for administration, regulatory/compliance officials, UTMB’s Office of Sponsored Programs and sponsors as appropriate. + Manages contracts for submission of deliverables and adherence to approved budgets. + Assures efficient compliance with deliverable/milestone schedules on each project. + Minimizes exposure and risk on research project by evaluating research protocol for regulatory/compliance issues. + Effectively manages multi-disciplinary, multi-investigator research projects. + Creates and monitors research project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements. + Coordinates the collection of research data and the development of project related documents. + Ensures research project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately. + May provide team leadership through mentoring. Identifies opportunities for improvement and makes constructive suggestions for change. + Serves as liaison to sponsor as appropriate. + Facilitates communication with project teams on research progress and reporting of results. + Adheres to internal controls and reporting structure **WORKING ENVIRONMENT/LOCATION OF POSITION:** + Standard hospital, clinical, laboratory and/or office environments. + May be exposed to such occupational hazards such as communicable diseases, harmful chemicals, and/or disoriented or combative patients. + Describe travel requirements and other physical demands of job **Salary Range:** Commensurate with experience **Equal Employment Opportunity** UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Compensation