Clinical Research associates needed

Make your livelihood saving lives. Help bring new miracles of medicine to market sooner. Join the Clinical Research team at Covance. You’ll be front and center, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with respected medical professionals, helping them win the war against disease. And as a key member of one of the world’s largest, most comprehensive drug development services companies, you’ll receive the finest training and greatest advancement opportunities. So make the career decision of your life. Advance with Covance.

With clinical trial professionals located in more than a dozen countries, Covance can conduct clinical trials anywhere in the world. Covance maintains centers of excellence in study design and clinical development in oncology, CNS, infectious diseases and cardiovascular. Our innovative scientists, clinicians, regulators and health economics experts are committed to the highest quality standards. Our experience in the field offers our CRA’s unsurpassed ability to learn in a wide variety of therapeutic areas!

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• May manage small projects under direction of a Project Manager/Director, as assigned.
• May serve as lead monitor for a protocol or project and may assist in establishing monitoring plans.
• Review progress of projects and initiate appropriate actions to achieve target objectives.
• Organize and make presentations at Investigator Meetings.
• Report, write narratives and follow-up on serious adverse experiences.
• Interact with internal work groups to evaluate needs, resources and timelines.
• Responsible for all aspects of study site monitoring including routine monitoring and close-out of clinical sites, maintenance of study files, conduct of pre-study and initiation visits; liaise with vendors; and other duties, as assigned.
• General On-Site Monitoring Responsibilities
  1. Ensure that the study staff who will conduct the protocol have received the proper materials and instructions to safely enter patients into the study.
  2. Ensure the protection of study patients by verifying that informed consent procedures and protocol requirements are adhered to according to the applicable regulatory requirements.
  3. Ensure the integrity of the data submitted on Case Report Forms (CRFs) or other data collection tools by careful source document review. Monitor data for missing or implausible data.
  4. Ensure the resources of the Sponsor and Covance are spent wisely by performing the required monitoring tasks in an efficient manner, according to SOPs and established guidelines, including managing travel expenses in an economical fashion according to Covance travel policy.
  5. Prepare accurate and timely trip reports.

Experience Required:

CRA 2: Must have at least two (2) years of clinical research monitoring experience.
Senior CRA: Must have at least four (4) years of clinical research monitoring experience.