Clinical Recruitment Specialist, Early Phase Clinical Research - Dallas, TX at Fortrea, Dallas
Clinical Recruitment Specialist, Early Phase Clinical Research - Dallas, TX at Fortrea in Dallas. Full-time. Est. up to $80k. Apply with swipeandhired.
Are you passionate about connecting with people and using creative recruitment strategies to make an impact in clinical research? We’re looking for a Clinical Recruitment Specialist to help attract and engage volunteers for clinical research studies while building strong relationships throughout the Dallas community.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and execute recruitment strategies for clinical research studies.
- Coordinate local advertising, outreach, and social media recruitment efforts.
- Create participant-facing recruitment materials and support IRB submissions.
- Partner with site leadership to meet study enrollment needs.
- Build relationships with community organizations, medical groups, and local partners.
- Attend community events and represent the clinical research site.
- Monitor recruitment results, participant feedback, and recruitment budgets.
- Support participant referral and retention initiatives.
- Other duties as assigned.
The role may require approximately 10-20% travel, along with occasional evening or weekend activities.
YOU NEED TO BRING…
- Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, marketing, communications, business, or a related field preferred.
- Fortrea may consider relevant and equivalent experience in lieu of educational requirements.
- 3-4 years of experience in clinical research, recruitment, marketing, communications, or a related discipline preferred.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to build relationships, think creatively, and manage multiple recruitment initiatives.
- Additional language skills, including Spanish, Chinese, or Japanese, are preferred.
If you enjoy combining recruitment, marketing, community engagement, and clinical research, this is a great opportunity to help connect people with opportunities to participate in research.
Work Environment:
- Work is performed in a laboratory and/or a clinical environment with exposure to electrical office equipment.
- Occasional drives to site locations, occasional domestic travel.
- Exposure to biological fluids.
- Personal protective equipment required such as protective eyewear, garments and gloves.
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to work in an upright and/or stationary position for 6-8 hours per day.
- Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists to operate lab equipment.
- Occasional crouching, stooping, with frequent bending and twisting of upper body and neck.
- Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf.
- Light to moderate lifting and carrying, or moving of objects, including luggage and laptop computer with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs.
- Regular and consistent attendance.
- Travel Requirements:10-20 % of the time to fulfill research and recruitment responsibilities and for potential cross-site support needs or external training needs.
- Ability to attend conferences/exhibits and entertain clients after regular business hours is required.
- Varied hours may be required.
The important thing for us is you are comfortable working in an environment that is:
- Fast paced: where no deviations from the study protocol are allowed, and not meeting a timeline for even few minutes will create a quality issue.
- Changing priorities constantly asking you to prioritize and adapt on the spot.
- Teamwork and people skills are essential for the study to run smoothly.
- Technology based. We collect our data directly into an electronic environment.
What do you get?
Regular, full-time, or part-time employees working 20 or more hours per week are eligible for comprehensive benefits including but not limited to:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, STD/LTD (multiple insurance carriers)
- 401(K)
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Employee recognition awards
- Multiple ERG’s (employee resource groups)
Learn more about our EEO & Accommodations request here.