Senior Director - Clinical Research _ Office of Associate Vice Chancellor for Research

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Job Requisition ID:

R00050168

Job Category:

Research

Organization:

OAVCR-Research

Location/s:

Main Campus Jackson

Job Title:

Senior Director - Clinical Research _ Office of Associate Vice Chancellor for Research

Job Summary:

Leads and oversees the clinical trials operations at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). This role is responsible for providing strategic direction, operational leadership, and centralized oversight of clinical research activities. Serves as a key resource for faculty, staff, and institutional leadership, promoting and supporting clinical research efforts while ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and institutional priorities. Works collaboratively across departments to enhance efficiency, strengthen research capabilities, and facilitate high-quality clinical trial execution.

Education & Experience

Education and Experience Required:

Bachelor's degree and seven (7) years of work experience in clinical research operations, regulatory compliance, or clinical trials management, including two (2) years of experience in a supervisory role.

Certifications, Licenses, or Registration required:

N/A

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s degree. Society of Clinical Research Associates (SoCRA) Certified Clinical Research Professional (CCRP). Professional level clinical research experience in an academic medical center.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Detail-oriented with knowledge in multiple areas of clinical research, including clinical procedures, compliance, government regulations, and budgetary issues. Demonstrates leadership, including proven ability to function effectively in a matrix organization. Experience with information technology and systems analysis. Strong organization, planning, and prioritization skills. Effective decision-making, analysis, and problem-solving abilities supported by critical thinking. Excellent oral and written communication skills, including public speaking.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates current clinical trials practices, sets a vision based on findings, and communicates vision to relevant stakeholders
• Works with Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor (OAVCR) Directors to ensure compliance with applicable regulations; provides leadership in identifying and implementing corrective actions/processes.
• Plans and implements program operations, identifies and develops centralized governance, processes and/or guidelines, coordinates program activities and timelines.
• Assesses communication and training needs, develops and implements any applicable communication, education, training, on-boarding and/or mentorship needs.
• Provides Clinical Trials updates, including trial status/metrics, budget, accomplishments and risks to research leadership and other relevant stakeholders.
• Collaborates with internal and external key collaborators including departments, leaders across the organization, representatives from external agencies/organizations to provide mentorship, resolve issues, grow clinical trials, and/or implement processes and/or solutions.
• Identifies growth opportunities and further efficiencies that impact the program and/or departments success and aids in development of strategic plans to achieve objectives.
• Ability to run meetings, set agendas, create action items and set priorities for clinical trials stakeholders in order to move overall research mission forward.
• In conjunction with leadership, responsible for planning, monitoring, and leading program fiscal budgets and financials, and resolves or advances issues.
• The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Physical and Environmental Demands

Requires occasional handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment, exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations, occasional working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, frequent travelling to offsite locations, occasional activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, occasional bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 10 pounds, occasional crouching/stooping, occasional driving, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, occasional reaching, constant sitting, frequent standing, occasional twisting, and frequent walking.

Time Type:

Full time

FLSA Designation/Job Exempt:

Yes

Pay Class:

Salary

FTE %:

100

Work Shift:

Day

Benefits Eligibility:

Grant Funded:

No

Job Posting Date:

04/30/2026

Job Closing Date (open until filled if no date specified):

05/5/2026