Clinical Research Coordinator

The Department of Transversal Translational Medicine (TTM) of the Luxembourg Institute of Health aims to foster biomedical and healthcare technology programmes by facilitating the ability of public and private stakeholders to work translationally, fostering national and international bed-to-bench-to-bed collaborations and thereby acting as a bridge from fundamental over clinical research into the real-world healthcare experience in integrated care networks. The Clinical Research Coordinator will provide expertise to support translational, collaborative and multidisciplinary projects for fostering personalized medicine in the Luxembourgish ecosystem and abroad by maintaining an overview of clinical research activities as well as planning and coordinating them across a bed-to-bench-to-bed framework. The Clinical Research Coordinator acts as the interface between the clinical team, research and operational teams, and external partners, keeping a clear overview of ongoing and planned activities and ensuring that clinical work is aligned, visible and efficiently delivered across transversal team and disciplines.

Key Accountabilities

• Manage a multidisciplinary team of professionals, including physician-scientists, research nurses, and neuropsychologists by distributing organization tasks among the clinical team;
• Plan, monitor, and organize the daily activities of the clinical research facility to create efficient systems and workflows within the research clinic;
• Work closely with the Clinical Study Management team and attend strategic meetings for projects to ensure feasibility within the clinical team;
• Support the development of clinical research on neurodegenerative disease and integrate into national clinical trials and integrated care concepts;
• Maintain an overview of ongoing and planned clinical projects and coordinate participant recruitment for cohorts and clinical trials;
• Attend communication meetings to raise awareness of the current clinical projects run at the clinical facility;
• Act as the central interface between clinical, research, and operational teams, ensuring that priorities, timelines and information are aligned across transversal teams and projects;
• Organize internal training for the team and individual training for newcomers;
• Mastermind ways to improve the quality of patient interaction and study visits at the facility;
• Ensure that the facility is well equipped to provide top-of-the-line service while remaining mindful of the bottom line.

Key Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• Knowledge of neurological disorders is seen as an asset;
• Rigor, motivation, creativity and originality, writing skills, conciseness, sense of priority, and ability to work with others;
• Excellent interpersonal, motivational, networking, and negotiation/influencing skills. Project management and organizational skills, and good decision-making skills are seen as asset;
• Excellent interpersonal/communication and collaborative skills to work as an interface in a multi-disciplinary environment;
• Language skills: Being fluent in English is a must. Being fluent in French and/or German is seen as a major asset. Any other commonly spoken language in Luxembourg such as Portuguese or Luxembourgish would be an added advantage.