Senior Human Health Research Coordinator

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in the coordination and delivery of several multi-centre clinical trials at the Liggins Institute, with a focus on maternal and neonatal health research.

As a Senior Human Health Research Coordinator, you will provide operational leadership across a portfolio of complex clinical trials conducted in collaboration with hospitals and research teams throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally. You will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day coordination and management of studies from start-up through to close-out, ensuring studies are delivered to a high standard and within agreed timelines, budgets, and regulatory requirements.

Key responsibilities will include preparing and coordinating ethics and locality submissions, managing study documentation and trial master files, overseeing recruitment and site engagement activities, monitoring study progress and data quality, and ensuring compliance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP), ethical standards, and study protocols. You will work closely with Principal Investigators, clinicians, research staff, Te Whatu Ora, external collaborators, and participants to support effective trial delivery across multiple sites.

The role will also involve developing and maintaining strong working relationships with site teams, facilitating communication across stakeholders, supporting participant recruitment strategies, preparing reports for ethics committees, funders, and governance groups, and contributing to problem-solving and operational planning for complex studies.

As a senior member of the team, you will provide mentorship and guidance to other research coordinators and support a collaborative and high-performing research environment. You may also contribute to grant applications, protocol development, staff training, and continuous improvement initiatives within the research platform.

This position requires excellent organisational and communication skills, the ability to manage multiple competing priorities, and confidence working independently within a clinical research environment. Experience in clinical trial coordination in Aotearoa New Zealand, particularly within maternal, neonatal, or hospital-based research, would be highly advantageous. The post holder will contribute to a number of research trials and studies including the C*STEROID Trial, the PRECeDe Trial, the PROMOAT Trial and other ongoing and upcoming research in maternal, perinatal and neonatal health.

This is a part-time (30h per week), fixed term (2 years) position.

The salary range for this role is $78,601–$90,700 (prorated) depending on skills and experience.