Research Governance and Facilitation Officer

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic individual to join the Joint Research and Enterprise Services as a Research Governance and Facilitation officer. This post plays a key role in providing research governance and facilitation services to academics and clinicians with a focus on clinical studies hosted at St George’s, and non-CTIMPs sponsored by St George’s.

The Research Governance and Facilitation Officer will provide a high standard service to clinical researchers in the processing of project approvals, assessing and offering advice on study feasibility and providing on-going project support. The post-holder will be responsible for ensuring that clinical research carried out at St George’s is performed to the highest quality in terms of science, governance, and ethical standards. The post-holder will be responsible for the research projects originating from a range of Divisions and Institutes at St George’s.

Main duties of the job

This role will support the development, implementation and monitoring of systems for the effective management of Research & Development, research governance, and risk management in research across St George’s University Hospitals Foundation Trust and City, St George's University of London. Thereby ensuring that appropriate and robust systems are in place to support, monitor and coordinate research activity across the two institutions, in accordance with the relevant regulations, legislation and mandatory guidance.

• Pre-Study Support, Guidance & Training
• Study Approval and Set-Up
• Study Initiation
• Project Management, support and delivery
• Project Close-out

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post-holder will foster excellent communication and working relationships with the clinical research delivery professionals internally and externally and be able to work well under pressure and cope with conflicting demands whilst maintaining excellent organisational, communication and IT skills. Confidentiality, accuracy and attention to detail are fundamental for this position.

Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role.