Research Coordinator-Senior

Join a federally funded clinical and translational research laboratory whose active portfolio spans immune resilience, biological aging, military performance, infection, asthma, exercise physiology, heat stress, and trauma, with scientific output reaching multispecialty journals including Nature Communications and Aging Cell. The Research Coordinator holds operational and administrative responsibility for the day-to-day execution of this portfolio.

This position may be filled at multiple education and training levels, including candidates with a bachelor's degree in biology, public health, or a related field (with substantive clinical research coordination experience) and candidates with a master's degree. The specific appointment will be calibrated to the candidate's background and the laboratory's active operational needs.

Reporting to the Principal Investigator, the Research Coordinator plans, directs, and supervises the complex administrative and fiscal functions of the laboratory's active research initiatives. Core responsibilities include coordinating study operations across multiple protocols, managing budgets and tracking expenditures against federal sponsor requirements, supporting regulatory and compliance activities (IRB submissions and modifications, Good Clinical Practice adherence, institutional reporting), supervising and mentoring lower-level research staff, monitoring resource utilization and procurement, facilitating communication across investigators, staff, institutional partners, and sponsor contacts, and ensuring that the laboratory's federally funded programs execute on schedule and in compliance with institutional and sponsor requirements.

The role requires sound judgment, operational discipline, and the capacity to coordinate across a multi-institutional research environment spanning UT Health San Antonio, the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, the Foundation for Advancing Veterans Health Research, and federal sponsor contacts. The successful candidate will contribute materially to the laboratory's capacity to execute its scientific mission.