Trial Coordinator - Cancer Clinical Trials Unit (CRCTU)- 108098 - Grade 6

Overview

In this role you will contribute to the management of large clinical trial protocols within the CRCTU, ensuring ethical and regulatory compliance and high-quality data. You will work across trial sites, coordinate governance, and help develop trial management procedures. The position offers exposure to protocol design, data handling, and dissemination activities, with a focus on patient safety and methodological rigor. This is a collaborative, mission-driven opportunity within a leading medical research university.

Pay / Benefits

• 40 days paid holiday a year
• one paid day for volunteering
• pension scheme
• three on-site nurseries
• flexible working arrangements

Responsibilities

• Ensure trials comply with ethical, regulatory, and CRCTU quality standards; maintain audit trails
• Coordinate site setup, ethics/regulatory submissions, and site staff training
• Monitor site progress, recruitment, protocol adherence, and data quality
• Contribute to trial design, analysis, publications, and grant activities
• Manage trial documentation, data capture, validation, coding rules, and data checks
• Develop guidance notes, procedures, and trial management tools
• Prepare trial reports for management and committees; maintain administrative databases
• Coordinate trial management group activities and communicate progress to stakeholders
• Train and supervise staff involved in data management
• Maintain literature reviews and support methodological development in trial design
• Support GCP, ethics, regulations, and university policies to protect subjects and ensure quality
• Foster a fair, inclusive workplace in line with equality and diversity commitments

Key requirements

• Higher degree in biomedical or related subject or equivalent experience in clinical research
• Deep understanding of clinical research and trial management methodologies
• Office management and clerical skills including word processing and document layout
• Experience with medical research information management (data coding, entry validation, reporting)
• Experience designing, maintaining, and querying complex relational databases
• Experience with statistics packages (e.g., SPSS, SAD) for trial data analysis
• Proven administrative and project management skills
• Ability to work independently and lead a team
• Strong communication, negotiation, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail and numerical accuracy
• Ability to travel as required
• Knowledge of Equality Act 2010 and related diversity duties

• strong communication
• negotiation
• presentation
• clinical trial management
• data management and entry validation
• coding and database design

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