Description:
Summary of Key Responsibilities (job functions include but are not limited to):
- Research Coordination
- Responsible for the implementation and execution of clinical research and clinical trial study protocols, as well as coordination and administration of the research program and related projects
- Project management (project planning, organizing, and supporting stakeholder and research team engagement, planning and facilitating structured meetings (including meeting minutes and follow up))
- Organize, direct, and evaluate the activities surrounding protocols, including quality control
- Recruitment and management of study participants
- Liaise with the national team and other study sites
- Collaborate with other internal and external resources as needed
- Research ethics board applications, modifications, and other ethics related functions as necessary
- Continuous communication with the research ethics board, sponsor(s), Investigators, service providers, and other healthcare disciplines and partners involved in the research
- In collaboration with the Principal Investigator, implement the local policies of the research project, evaluating research activities and recommending improvements when appropriate
- Research Participant Recruitment, Follow Up and Data Collection
- Recruitment and management of study participants
- Protection of subjects and subjects' rights according to the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH), Declaration of Helsinki guidelines, the Tri-council Policy Statement and through Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board (CHREB) requirements
- Coordinating participant recruitment between multiple clinics/locations for both the research program and related projects
- Regular contact with research participants that may include scheduling, screening, consenting participants, follow up with participants, specimen (stool, blood and urine) collection from participants, withdrawing participants from the research program according to research protocols
- Complete and accurate data collection and entry of data into electronic databases in a timely fashion