Clinical Research Coordinator I

About the Role

The Clinical Research Coordinator I (Neuroimaging Research Coordinator) supports the day-to-day coordination and execution of neuroimaging and neurologic research studies, with a primary focus on stroke and cerebrovascular disease. This role involves assisting with cohort identification, data retrieval and processing, quality control, and preparing research-ready data for analysis. Opportunities to contribute to scientific analyses, abstracts, presentations, and manuscripts will be available.

Key Responsibilities

• Supports the day-to-day coordination and execution of neuroimaging and neurologic research studies, with a primary focus on stroke and cerebrovascular disease.
• Assists with identifying and assembling research cohorts from existing clinical, imaging, and research resources according to study-specific criteria.
• Retrieves and contributes to organizing study data using established institutional systems and research workflows.
• Executes established neuroimaging and data-processing workflows following training and study procedures.
• Performs quality control of data and intermediate processed outputs, and flags missing, inconsistent, or failed data for review.
• Troubleshoots routine data-quality and processing problems and discusses potential solutions with investigators and the research team.
• Uses scripting, programming, statistical, or data-analysis tools, as appropriate, to support data preparation and quality control.
• Maintains study-specific records documenting data sources, retrieval, processing steps, exclusions, quality-control decisions, and modifications made during data preparation.
• Assists with study-specific IRB and regulatory documentation and maintains required research records.
• Helps track project progress and communicates updates, issues, and questions with investigators, collaborators, and other members of the research team.
• Participates in research meetings and collaborative projects.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor's Degree in a Related Field of Study (Neuroscience, Biology, Psychology, Physics, Computer Science, other related field) is required.
• Candidates who are in the process of completing their bachelor's degree have a six-month grace period from their hire date (up to one year if starting on a per diem basis) to provide degree equivalency verification.
• Yes, experience can be accepted in lieu of a degree.
• Some relevant research project work 0-1 year preferred, ideally in areas of MRI and/or neuroimaging.

Qualifications

• Careful attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and ability to manage priorities and track project milestones.
• Ability to follow established research protocols and technical workflows, work with increasing independence, and recognize when problems require further evaluation.
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to investigate problems, develop potential solutions, and discuss them with the research team.
• Comfort working with complex data and maintaining clear, reproducible documentation of data sources, processing steps, and quality-control decisions.
• Prior familiarity with Linux or command-line environments is preferred; willingness to learn is expected.
• Prior programming or scripting experience is preferred. Python and shell scripting are particularly useful. Experience with other languages is appropriate.
• Experience with R, statistical software, or other data-analysis tools to support quality control steps is useful; willingness to learn is expected.
• Good interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, ability to work collaboratively, and ability to handle sensitive clinical and research information in accordance with institutional policies.