The CRA:

• Performs and coordinates all aspects of the clinical monitoring and site management process.
• Conducts remote or on-site visits to assess protocol and regulatory compliance and manages required documentation..
• Acts as a site processes specialist, ensuring that the trial is conducted in accordance with the approved protocol, ICH-GCP guidelines, applicable regulations and SOPs to guarantee subjects rights, well-being and data reliability.
• Ensures audit readiness.
• Develops collaborative relationships with investigational sites.
• Detailed tasks and responsibilities assigned to role are outlined in the task matrix.
• Travel up to 50-75%
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A day in the Life:

• Monitors investigator sites with a risk-based monitoring approach applies root cause analysis (RCA), critical thinking and problem-solving skills to identify site processes failure and corrective/preventive actions to bring the site into compliance and decrease risks.
• Ensures data accuracy through SDR, SDV and CRF review as applicable through on-site and remote monitoring activities.
• Assess investigational product through physical inventory and records review.
• Documents observations in reports and letters in a timely manner using approved business writing standards.
• Brings up observed deficiencies and issues to clinical management expeditiously and follow all issues through to resolution.
• May need to maintain regular contact between monitoring visits with investigative sites to confirm that the protocol is being followed, that previously identified issues are being resolved and that the data is being recorded in a timely manner.
• Conducts monitoring tasks in accordance with the approved monitoring plan.
• Participates in the investigator payment process.
• Ensures a shared responsibility with other project team members on issues/findings resolution.
• Investigates and follows-up on findings as applicable
• Provides trial status tracking and progress update reports to the Clinical Team Manager (CTM) as required.
• Ensures study systems are updated per agreed study conventions (e.g. Clinical Trial Management System, CTMS).
• Performs QC check of reports generated from CTMS system where required.
• Participates in investigator meetings as necessary.
• Identifies potential investigators in collaboration with the client company to ensure the acceptability of qualified investigative sites. Initiates clinical trial sites according to the relevant procedures to ensure compliance with the protocol and regulatory and ICH GCP obligations, making recommendations where warranted. Ensures trial close out and retrieval of trial materials.