[Remote] Clinical Research Associate (Level II or Senior) - West Region

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thermo Fisher Scientific is a company dedicated to enabling customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. The Clinical Research Associate will perform and coordinate clinical monitoring and site management processes, ensuring compliance with protocols and regulations while developing relationships with investigational sites.

Responsibilities
• 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
• Manages procedures and guidelines from different sponsors and/or monitoring environments
• 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
• Monitors investigator sites with a risk-based monitoring approach: applies root Functions 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
• Assesses investigational product through physical inventory and records review
• Documents observations in reports and letters in a timely manner using approved business writing standards
• Escalates 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
• 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
• Performs trial close out and retrieval of trial materials
• Ensures that required essential documents are complete and in place, according to ICH-GCP and applicable regulations
• Conducts on-site file reviews as per project specifications
• 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)
• Facilitates effective communication between investigative sites, the client company and the PPD project team through written, oral and/or electronic contacts
• Responds to company, client and applicable regulatory requirements/audits/inspections
• Maintains & completes administrative tasks such as expense reports and timesheets in a timely manner
• Contributes to the project team by assisting in preparation of project publications/tools, and sharing ideas/suggestions with team members
• Contributes to other project work and initiatives for process improvement, as required

Skills
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
• Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening
• Ideal candidates will have one to two years of CRA experience and experience monitoring oncology, HIV, respiratory and or vaccine/flu
• Bachelor's degree in a life sciences related field or a Registered Nursing certification or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• Valid driver's license where applicable
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 1 years as a clinical research monitor) for CRA Level II
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2+ years as a clinical research monitor) for Sr CRA Level I
• Proven clinical monitoring skills, ideal candidates will have monitoring experience with oncology, HIV, respiratory and or vaccine/flu
• Demonstrated understanding of medical/therapeutic area knowledge and medical terminology
• Demonstrated ability to attain and maintain a working knowledge of ICH GCPs, applicable regulations and procedural documents
• Well-developed critical thinking skills, including but not limited to: critical mindset, in-dep