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Northwell Health · 11 hours ago

Director, Clinical Research

Northwell Health is a leading healthcare organization, and they are seeking a Director of Clinical Research to oversee program development and implementation. The role involves directing clinical research activities, managing staff, and ensuring that goals and objectives are met within funding parameters.

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Responsibilities

Leads a Clinical Research group by communicating with and developing staff members, and building consensus for programs and goals that support a business, function or geographic area
Develops and articulates a short-term strategic vision for areas of responsibility
Plans, directs and coordinates program activities to ensure goals and objectives are accomplished within prescribed time-frames and funding parameters; directs, oversees, and prioritizes daily activities of clinical trials staff
Develops, implements, and oversees clinical trial activities including the development of final research protocols, data management and trial management plans
Develops and integrates risk management plans to identify and address potential problems with program performance, timeliness and quality of results
Directs staffing and resource planning and allocation across clinical trial projects; coordinates training, quality assurance and site evaluations
Leads cross-functional integration of program components including site selection and supervision; coordination of site research staff with centralized rating partner as well as data management group
Creates program budgets and forecasts for clinical research programs. Identifies, plans and participates in acquisition of funding
Reviews and approves documents generated by clinical research including, but not limited to protocols, study reports and regulatory documents supporting Investigational New Drugs (INDs), New Drug Applications (NDAs) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) information requests
Directs regularly scheduled reporting to program executive leadership, sponsors, and program team; reviews quality assurance reports generated by the data management core and develops plans with sites for corrective actions, as needed
Selects, develops, manages, and evaluates direct reports; oversees the development, management, and evaluation of indirect reports
Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions

Qualification

Clinical Research ManagementData ManagementProtocol DevelopmentRisk ManagementLeadership ExperienceBudgetingStaff RecruitmentQuality Assurance

Required

Bachelor's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience
8-12 years of relevant experience and 7+ years of leadership / management experience, required

Preferred

Master's Degree, preferred

Company

Northwell Health

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Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 28 hospitals, about 1,000+ outpatient facilities and more than 16,000 affiliated physicians.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$58.3M
Key Investors
National Institute of Mental HealthNational Human Genome Research InstituteBreakthrough Discoveries
2025-12-02Grant· $4M
2025-10-23Grant· $3.2M
2025-06-16Grant· $2.3M

Leadership Team

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Michael Dowling
President and CEO
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Nick Stefanizzi
Chief Executive Officer at Northwell Direct
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