Sr. Research Compliance Specialist

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We collaborate with education organizations to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change our clients need to own their future. Together, we empower clients to drive innovation, create sustainable funding streams and deliver better student outcomes.
Today, leaders of higher education institutions and academic medical centers are spending too much time reacting to market forces, rather than focusing on the essential priorities that help students, faculty and staff thrive. The most productive path forward requires an intentional approach and innovative thinking, whereby stakeholders across the entire institution rally around a shared vision and embrace the hard work of effecting change.
You’ll help our clients to achieve organizational effectiveness, improve student outcomes, implement new technologies and align resources and investments to ensure long-term sustainability.
Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Research Office, developed by Huron Consulting Group, is a comprehensive solution designed to streamline research administration and compliance for institutions engaged in sponsored research. We proudly partner with academic medical centers, children’s hospitals, health systems, research universities, and sponsors. Our work is powered by proprietary technology and a deep bench of subject matter experts, enabling us to drive efficiency and elevate outcomes across the research enterprise.
Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing research environment and drive optimization in the existing business operations.
Are you ready to make an impact on the research compliance industry? In this role as a Managed Services Associate in Research Office, you will apply your knowledge of federal research compliance regulations to provide support for universities, academic medical centers and hospitals across the country.
You will use your time management skills to work on multiple clients concurrently and apply your expertise and work ethic to process and review Institutional Review Board (IRB) submissions and conflict of interest (COI) disclosures. You will apply guidelines and client specific requirements to coordinate and process the reviews. Bring your expertise and be part of the Huron Higher Education team with opportunities to collaborate, learn and grow while impacting some of the most prestigious higher education institutions. This is a dynamic environment where new challenges present themselves daily and no two days are the same.

Essential Duties:

• Reviews and triages incoming items including IRB submissions (requests for determination/approval, new information, and questions, concerns, and complaints of investigators, research staff, IRB members, subjects, and other individuals) and COI disclosures.
• Conducts pre-review of IRB submissions to determine federal agency oversight, evaluate for missing materials, and identifies special regulatory issues that will need to be handled by the IRB.
• Conducts non-committee IRB reviews (e.g. not human research and exempt determinations, expedited reviews).
• Supports client IRB meetings (e.g. meeting management, minutes).
• Supports COI disclosure process, including initiating disclosure cycles and escalating non-compliance with disclosure timeliness.
• Reviews and evaluates COI disclosures against research portfolios and institutional responsibilities and identifies disclosures that need to be reviewed by a COI Committee or other leader as required by institutional policy.
• Drafts COI management plans; monitors implemented COI management plans.
• Develops and provides IRB and COI training for clients.
• Coordinates with other client offices impacted by IRB and COI reviews, including sponsored programs.
• Manages Huron team workload.
• and mentors junior level Huron staff in IRB and COI activities and regulatory requirements.
• Stays abreast of changing regulatory requirements and industry standards.
   

Required Qualifications:

• U.S. work authorization required.
• Huron requires a bachelor’s degree for this position or equivalent work experience.
• Ability to lead client service delivery and oversee other’s work with flexibility to manage personal tasks simultaneously and to meet various concurrent deadlines.
• Certification as an IRB Professional (CIP)
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat other applications of the Microsoft Office suite. Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Proficiency in working with electronic IRB and COI submission/review systems.
• Knowledge of federal regulations governing the ethical conduct of research and the protection of human subjects.
• Knowledge of conflict of interest federal regulations.
• Effective time management to meet deadlines.
• Ability to multi-task, supporting multiple internal initiatives at one time.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to learn quickly and attention to detail. 
• This is a full time US-REMOTE role. This salaried position may require working additional hours at times, depending on business needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A minimum of 5 years of combined IRB and COI experience
• Experience using the Huron HRPP Toolkit
• Experience using HRS IRB and/or HRS COI software

The estimated base salary range for this job is $75,000 - $100,000.  The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy.  Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $84,000 - $118,000. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

Position LevelAssociate

CountryUnited States of America