Senior Associate, Clinical Research
Job Title: Senior Associate, Clinical Research
Role Level: Individual Contributor (IC)
Supervisor/Manager Title: Director, Clinical Affairs
Job Location & Environment: Irvine, CA, Corporate Office
Job Description Summary: The Senior Clinical Research Associate will report to the Director, Clinical Affairs, and will play a key role in proactively supporting the conduct of pre-market clinical studies and ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements. The ideal candidate will have a thorough knowledge of Good Clinical Practices (GCP) and applicable regulations.
Job Responsibilities:
- Support site management and interact with site coordinators, investigators, and field monitors in collecting data and resolving queries to meet the protocol requirements in a timely manner.
- Ensure quality data management activities – i.e., data review, query generation and resolution. Generate status reports to clinical staff and management.
- Generate queries to resolve data issues and apply corrections to database.
- Act as a point person for all data related to clinical group, and to provide data to cross-functional departments.
- Conduct EDC training to external teams and sites.
- Maintain Trial Master Files and trackers for clinical trials.
- Manage trial-related regulatory documents and provide follow-up action listings to ensure that all clinical documentation required by regulations and JenaValve procedures is current.
- Conduct periodic audits of internal files to ensure compliance per site Institutional Review Board (IRB) and/or Ethics Committee (EC) policy (i.e. IRB continuing review approval period and expiration dates).
- Provide clinical operational support during preparation for and conduct of all clinical audits and inspections.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of departmental policies, standards, and process improvement initiatives.
- Partner with management to manage external vendors, including ongoing supplier qualification.
- Assist field clinical monitors in preparation for site training and monitoring visits
- Support co-monitoring of local sites on an as-needed basis.