IRB Coordinator

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Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Join Emplify Health by Gundersen's Research Institute team as an IRB Coordinator, where your strong communication skills and attention to detail will play a vital role in ensuring compliance with regulatory guidelines while supporting groundbreaking research initiatives.

If you're self-directed, collaborative, and eager to learn, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the field of human subjects' protection!

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serves as administrative support to ensure the effective functioning of the Human Subjects Committee (HSC)/IRB under the leadership of the Chair of the HSC/IRB.

• Ensures the HSC/IRB complies with all federal rules and regulations

• Monitors the regulatory environment and recommends changes, as needed, to institutional officials and provides input for policy and procedural changes that ensure compliance.

• Reviews proposed research, Informed Consent documents and amendment-specific content for compliance with federal, state and local regulations. Recommends category of review, assesses risk and evaluates the need for further clinical or professional review of research.

• Monitors for and reports serious non-compliance issues/concerns to the IRB Chair.

• Enrolls, monitors and ensures timely completion of required regulatory education for research investigators and research staff

What’s Available:

• 40-hours a week, 1.0 FTE

• Starting rate of $22.90/hr + more for experience

• Eligible for remote/hybrid, MUST LIVE in Wisconsin, Iowa or Minnesota

• Monday – Friday; typical business hours 8:00a-4:30p

What You’ll Need:

• Associate degree in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) or social sciences, with 3-4 years' experience in research administration, IRB administration, bioethics, or a related field

• Bachelor’s degree in clinical research, health care administration, bioethics, or other health related degree is preferred

What You’ll Get:

• A comprehensive and generous benefits package (Medical, Dental, Life Ins, HSA/FSA) ensuring your comfort and well-being as a valuable team member

• Substantial retirement contribution including 401k match & annual discretionary base contribution

• Work/Life Balance: Paid Time Off (PTO) combines vacation, sick, and personal days into one balance to allow you the flexibility to use your time off as you need

• Support for your career growth through Professional Development Opportunities, our Tuition Investment Program, and Career Development Center

• Other benefits include a Wellness program with incentives, employer-paid life insurance and AD&D, optional short-term and long-term disability coverage, an employee assistance program, identity theft protection, pet insurance, Inspire & Celebrate colleague recognition and rewards program, a discount program, and more!

• Unlimited potential at one of the leading health systems in the midwestern United States

Emplify Health, a partnership of Bellin Health and Gundersen Health System, is a leading not-for-profit, patient-centered healthcare network based in Green Bay and La Crosse, Wisconsin. With 11 hospitals and over 100 clinics, we serve 67 cities across Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Join us in making a meaningful difference in the lives of our patients and communities.

If you need assistance with any portion of the application or have questions about the position, please contact HR-Recruitment@gundersenhealth.org or call 608-775-0267.

We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values — belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility — our pillars set our foundation and our future.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Around here, loving your job is part of the job. Join our mission in changing healthcare while finding a career you'll love!

Gundersen Health System offers a proud, local history spanning more than 100 years. Our personalized patient care model is only the beginning of what you will experience as we foster population health transformation and innovation to serve our communities and you. We've made it a priority to enrich the lives of our employees as they find a career they love. Using each employee’s unique talents and passions, Gundersen is committed to delivering exceptional patient and family-centered care to the communities we serve.

You can be part of an exciting, highly adaptable and mission-driven organization with a work environment that supports you personally and professionally and a work culture where you are valued and appreciated offering an employee-first culture, work-life balance, and career advancement & growth opportunities. This culture allows our organization to attract elite talent, like yourself!

What You Can Expect:

• Empowerment to shape your work environment, encouragement to improve processes and create efficiencies, and support when seeking opportunities for growth

• Culture that encourages self-care and provides you with opportunities to be your best self at work and at home

• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages, as applicable, ensuring your comfort and well-being as a valuable team member

• Support for your career growth through Professional Development Opportunities, our Tuition Investment Program, Career Development Center, and online continuing education courses

About Us

Inside our walls and our neighborhoods, we deliver world-class medical care and the right amount of love. We call it LOVE + MEDICINE and it’s more than our practice. It is who we are.

Gundersen Health System, based in La Crosse, WI, is the leading provider of primary and specialized care in western Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota, and northeast Iowa; serving more than 500,000 residents throughout 22 counties. Our physician-led, not-for-profit healthcare system includes a 325-bed teaching hospital, tertiary referral center, and Level II Trauma Center; community clinics; 6 affiliate critical access hospitals; nursing homes; behavioral health services; vision centers; pharmacies; and air and ground ambulance services. Together, we inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning, and innovating. We deliver Love + Medicine every day to change lives in our communities and enrich the lives of our employees.

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A rewarding career and an excellent quality of life awaits you. Learn more about our excellence in patient care, education, research, culture, and something we call Love + Medicine at www.gundersenhealth.org/careers/life.