Clinical Research Associate
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Clinical Research Associate monitoring clinical trials for Alira Health’s global healthcare research team. Ensuring protocol compliance, site quality, regulatory documentation, and accurate clinical data.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct site monitoring responsibilities for clinical trials
- Provide oversight, leadership, and guidance in the management and execution of clinical trials to ensure compliance and quality
- Provide guidance, oversight, and feedback to the CRA team regarding project scope, SOPs, timelines, and budgets
- Review monitoring visit reports and conduct co-monitoring and evaluation visits as needed
- Ensure appropriate and timely investigator site visits
- Coordinate cross-functional departments to resolve clinical trial monitoring issues
- Assist with study-specific Monitoring Plans and training presentations
- Assist with ethics document collection and site contract negotiation
- Provide monthly billing information to finance
- Manage study budgets and act as sponsor referent for stand-alone projects
- Perform qualification, initiation, interim, and close-out visits remotely and onsite
- Prepare accurate and timely monitoring visit reports
- Review and verify source documents and CRF data
- Perform quality control and verification of eTMF/TMF documents
- Conduct investigational product accountability
- Review site regulatory binders
- Maintain contact with study sites regarding protocol/GCP compliance, patient accrual, and sponsor requests
- Ensure compliance with ICH GCP, FDA regulations, and company/sponsor SOPs
- Participate in internal, client/sponsor, scientific, and other meetings
- Facilitate adverse event reporting and reconcile SAE reports with source documentation and CRFs
- Collaborate with in-house CRAs/CTC and data management to resolve discrepant data queries
- Identify site issues and develop problem-solving strategies
- Conduct audit preparation at study sites as needed
- Collaborate with other CRAs to maintain consistency and teamwork
- Assist with CRA new hire training and onboarding
- Mentor CRAs
- Collaborate on Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) development and maintenance
- Manage conflicting priorities and deliver commitments
- Perform additional assigned duties
Requirements:
- EU: Graduation in a scientific health field
- EU (Italy): Certified Monitor in compliance with Italian CRO decree dated 15Nov2011
- Ability to establish and maintain positive relationships with Sponsor, Site and Project Team members
- Ability to autonomously manage monitoring activities
- Quality focused; Proven ability to be careful, thorough, and detail-oriented
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to multi-task and work effectively in a fast-paced environment
- Able to manage priorities, organize time and solve problems
- Strong analytical, negotiation, meeting management, cross-functional team, and leadership skills
- Ability to travel
- Ability to manage stress
- Professional, trustworthy and disciplined
- Ability to problem-solve unstructured or ambiguous challenges
- Strong command of Local language, both written and verbal, in the country where monitoring activities are performed
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with customer service orientation
- Good computer skills, with ability to use clinical trial management systems, clinical trial databases and electronic data capture
- Self-starter who thrives in a collaborative, yet less structured team environment
- Knowledge of clinical research, ICH GCP and local regulations
- Knowledge of Regulatory and Ethical requirements
- EU: Adequate English
- Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biology or Life Sciences
Benefits:
- Remote work arrangement
- Part-time employment
- Contingency Workforce contract type










