The Clinical Research Project Manager independently leads and manages clinical trials from study start-up through closeout, ensuring adherence to protocol requirements, institutional standards, and applicable regulatory guidelines. This role provides operational oversight of research activities, including feasibility planning, subject recruitment and retention, data and specimen management, and regulatory compliance. The manager may supervise and develop research staff, drives process improvements, and contributes to the development of standard operating procedures. Additionally, the position represents the organization in internal and external forums and serves as a subject matter expert, providing strategic guidance and consultation at the departmental or institutional level.
In this role, the Clinical Research Project Manager will provide operational leadership for an enterprise-wide clinical implementation project focused on hypertension management in primary care and support investigators and projects across the Primary Care Research Center. In collaboration with Center leadership, principal investigators, and project sponsors, the manager will translate strategic priorities into operational plans and coordinate stakeholders, resources, milestones, deliverables, budgets, reporting, and evaluation activities to support successful project execution.
The hypertension management project, funded by the PCORI Health System Implementation Initiative, will implement a team-based, comprehensive care model to address care gaps related to this condition across the Jefferson primary care network. It will evaluate the implementation, as well as effectiveness, of the program on patient-level blood pressures outcomes and patient-reported health distress and self-efficacy. The work is informed by findings from PCORI-funded comparative clinical effectiveness research on clinic- and telehealth-based models of hypertension care.
The Jefferson Primary Care Research Center is a university-wide structure that supports investigators and leaders from across multiple disciplines who conduct research within the primary care environment. The Center’s core research areas include primary care innovation, cardiovascular health, lifestyle medicine and weight management, geriatrics, cancer prevention, integrated behavioral health, and women’s health.
The Clinical Research Project Manager independently leads and manages clinical trials from study start-up through closeout, ensuring adherence to protocol requirements, institutional standards, and applicable regulatory guidelines. This role provides operational oversight of research activities, including feasibility planning, subject recruitment and retention, data and specimen management, and regulatory compliance. The manager may supervise and develop research staff, drives process improvements, and contributes to the development of standard operating procedures. Additionally, the position represents the organization in internal and external forums and serves as a subject matter expert, providing strategic guidance and consultation at the departmental or institutional level.