Senior Research Program Manager

🇺🇸 Chapel Hill, NC 🕑 Full-Time 💰 TBD 💻 Project Management 🗓️ February 27th, 2026

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hiring a Senior Research Program Manager. This role manages complex health services, digital health, and implementation-science research programs by operationalizing research protocols, ensuring regulatory compliance, managing multi-site study infrastructure, analyzing data, and producing scholarly reports and publications.

Highlights

Manage complex research programs in global/public health, nursing, health sciences, or health informatics.
Develop research protocols and oversee IRB regulatory compliance.
Integrate human subjects protections, clinical workflows, and ensure methodological rigor across quantitative, qualitative, and digital health data.
Analyze research data and produce manuscripts, abstracts, and sponsor reports.
Required master's degree in relevant health-related disciplines or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience with research coordination, human subjects research compliance (IRB, HIPAA), and data collection tools like REDCap.
Preferred experience with federally funded research, digital health implementation, EHR data governance, and project management tools (Smartsheet, Asana, Trello).
Strong written and verbal communication skills for scientific and operational audiences.
Position is full-time, permanent staff within the UNC School of Nursing.
Expected to collaborate with multiple stakeholders across multi-site studies and support study milestones potentially outside normal hours with occasional travel.