Community Outreach Director - Pediatrics

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Community Outreach Director - Pediatrics

General Information

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Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Onsite or Remote

Flexible Hybrid

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm (flexiblity required)

Posted Date

07/29/2026

Salary Range: $74445 - 152460 Annually

Employment Type

2 - Staff: Career

Duration

indefinite

Job #

32191

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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The Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA) initiative is establishing the IMPACT Network, an international research network advancing clinical trial readiness for profound autism and genetically defined neurodevelopmental disorders. The Clinical Coordinating Center, based jointly at UCLA/CHLA and Boston Children's Hospital, seeks a Community Outreach Director to lead engagement with patients, families, and advocacy partners. The Director will define the network's community engagement strategy, build partnerships with patient advocacy groups and community organizations, guide recruitment and study materials, ensure all outreach aligns with the IRB-approved protocol and Good Clinical Practice, and supervise the Community Outreach Coordinator. The ideal candidate holds an advanced degree or equivalent experience and brings a strong record of community engagement or patient advocacy leadership in a research or clinical setting.

Salary Range: $74,445.00 - $152,460.00 Annually

Job Qualifications

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Required:

• Bachelor's Degree or 4-5 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to work independently and also have interpersonal skills to work with teams.
• Exceptional writing skills to produce wide range of documents and deliverables.
• Experience communicating effectively and professionally and working with a variety of internal and external partners, including UCLA administrators, outside funders, policy makers and community representatives.
• Strong organizational skills to successfully work on and track complex programs involving short deadlines and multiple tasks, in coordination with multiple teams to achieve program/project mission and goals.
• Working knowledge of program/project development, evaluation, creating datasets, financial management and reporting, research principles including CITI training, grant writing and proposal submission, University procedures and policies, program/project related federal and state regulations.
• Ability to seek out and learn new policies, procedures, and software to advance the mission of the program/project.
• Ability to train new program/project managers and other staff within and external to the unit.

Preferred:

• Master's degree or 2-3 years of experience.

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.

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