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 IRB Coordinator -- Columbia, MD
Author: Jon Merz
Date:   10-25-11 15:42

Chesapeake IRB, located in Columbia, MD has the following full time position open:

IRB Coordinator

Administratively and strategically supports clinical research sites for delivery of Institutional Review Board (IRB) services relating to protection of human subjects in research.


Responsibilities:

• Provides administrative review of research protocols, sites and recruitment materials per SOPs

• Coordinates work flow with sponsors, IRB administration, and internal project teams

• Prepares client correspondence and official documents

• Prepares reports from the database

• Maintains an understanding, and the ability to apply, the regulations that govern the protection of human subjects

• Communicates with sites and sponsors regarding research requirements, outstanding issues and timelines

• Demonstrates attention to detail

• Highly organized with the ability to create and manage timelines

• Conducts queries in CRRI’s database to derive information necessary to perform an array of functions related to the management of site information.

• Assists project manager in the planning and delivery of training.

• Develops and maintains an understanding of the regulations that govern the protection of human subjects and applies them where necessary and/or identifies the resources for same.

• Reads, understands and modifies Informed Consent Forms for research sites and sponsors, in accordance with the IRB written procedures.

• Merges information from database queries into appropriate report and correspondence templates and modifies to ensure content and format are accurate.

• Follows CRRI’s processes for continuous quality improvement (CQI) for all site and sponsor communications.

• Provides management with feedback and ideas to ensure clients are receiving optimum service.

• Provides management with feedback and ideas to ensure workflow and resource allocation are an optimal distribution.

• Assumes responsibilities required of project coordinator to include team leadership, client and team conflict resolution, time and task management, special projects, company representation at outside conferences and other areas to be defined by the individual team manager.


Required Qualifications: Specialized knowledge of regulations concerning human research protections; Bachelor’s degree in a related research field; Previous IRB-related experience. CIP certification highly desired.


Qualified candidates should forward their resume to careers@irbinfo.com .


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