Position Summary:
The Sr. Clinical Research Associate will oversee outsourced clinical operations activities including but not limited to site management, site monitoring and site level TMF filing. Additional responsibilities may be assigned (e.g. management of central labs).
Job Duties:
- Oversee outsourced clinical trial monitoring by reviewing monitoring plans, monitoring visit reports, deviation listings, and conducting periodic oversight monitoring visits. Review site training materials including Site initiation visit slides and related materials. May attend / present at site initiation visits (e.g. present company overview and pipeline slides).
- Develop or oversee development of study / country master ICFs; facilitating internal reviews as appropriate and applicable. Review subject facing documents (e.g. subject ID cards, subject instruction material) for accuracy against the protocol, IB, consent and other documents as applicable.
- Oversee site management activities by:
- Ensuring sites are compliant with GCP, and CROs are appropriate and timely escalation of deviations or non-compliance etc. Serve as primary point of contact for the CRO regarding site level issues.
- Review site level documents as relevant, e.g. site recruitment plans, site level ICF changes (including facilitation of internal review where appropriate).
- Ensuring timely collection /submission of updated regulatory documents and that TMF site files are in an inspection ready state. May also conduct or assist with study and country level TMF QC.
- Track distribution of safety letters to site. Escalate deviations from regulatory timelines to Clinical Project Manager.
- In coordination with other clinical team members, ensure study data quality by:
- Ensuring timely data entry and query resolution by sites.
- Serve as primary escalation point for late data entry / query resolution or lagging source data verification percentage.
- Support internal clinical data review process (e.g. review data for accurate subject disposition). Action follow-up items as applicable after internal data review meetings (e.g. schedule calls or follow-up with sites where additional discussion may be required).
- Provide updated site level documentation and applicable updates to regulatory as appropriate (e.g. updated 1572s, communicating site activations/site lists).
- Contribute to development of vendor oversight plans for outsourced clinical operations activities.
***Remote position in the U.S.