Clinical Recruitment Specialist, Early Phase Clinical Research - Dallas, TX

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.