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About the role

  • Clinical Research Associate monitoring clinical trials for pharmaceutical and biotech clients. Ensuring site compliance, data accuracy, essential documentation, and audit readiness across Alberta.

Responsibilities

  • Perform and coordinate clinical monitoring and site-management activities
  • Conduct remote and on-site visits to assess protocol and regulatory compliance
  • Manage required documentation and sponsor-specific procedures and guidelines
  • Ensure trials follow approved protocols, ICH-GCP guidelines, applicable regulations, and SOPs
  • Protect subjects' rights and well-being and ensure data reliability and audit readiness
  • Develop collaborative relationships with investigational sites
  • Monitor investigator sites using a risk-based monitoring approach
  • Apply root cause analysis, critical thinking, and problem-solving to identify site-process failures and corrective/preventive actions
  • Ensure data accuracy through source document review, source data verification, and CRF review
  • Assess investigational product through inventory and records review
  • Document observations in reports and letters and escalate deficiencies to clinical management
  • Maintain contact with investigative sites between monitoring visits and follow issues through resolution
  • Conduct monitoring tasks according to approved monitoring plans
  • Participate in investigator payment processes and investigator meetings
  • Help identify qualified investigators and initiate clinical trial sites
  • Perform trial closeout and retrieve trial materials
  • Ensure essential documents are complete and conduct on-site file reviews
  • Track trial status and provide progress updates
  • Maintain accurate and current study systems, including Clinical Trial Management Systems
  • Facilitate communication among investigative sites, client companies, and internal project teams
  • Respond to company, client, and regulatory requirements, audits, and inspections
  • Complete expense reports and timesheets
  • Assist with project publications and tools and contribute to process-improvement initiatives

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in a life sciences related field, or Registered Nursing certification, or equivalent relevant formal academic/vocational qualification
  • Minimal clinical monitoring experience comparable to 2 years (24 months) in a clinical environment involving clinical trials, medical terminology, medical research, clinical research, health care, or a health sciences field with formal training in medical terminology and anatomy
  • Valid driver's license where applicable
  • Equivalency through a combination of appropriate education, training, and/or directly related experience may be considered
  • Basic medical/therapeutic area knowledge and understanding of medical terminology
  • Ability to attain and maintain working knowledge of ICH GCPs, applicable regulations, and procedural documents
  • Good oral and written communication skills, including communication with medical personnel
  • Good interpersonal, organizational, and time-management skills
  • Customer-focus, listening skills, attention to detail, and ability to identify underlying issues
  • Flexibility and adaptability
  • Well-developed critical-thinking, root-cause-analysis, and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to manage risk-based monitoring concepts and processes
  • Ability to work independently or as part of a team
  • Solid knowledge of Microsoft Office and ability to learn appropriate software
  • Good English and French language and grammar skills
  • Willingness and ability to travel frequently, generally 60–80%, including possible extended overnight stays
  • Ability to work in office, laboratory, clinical, and/or home-office environments and use required personal protective equipment

Benefits

  • Fully remote work mode
  • Standard Monday–Friday work schedule
  • Exposure to varied clinical research projects and monitoring environments
  • Professional collaboration with global pharmaceutical, biotech, client, and internal project teams
  • Opportunity to contribute to project publications, tools, and process-improvement initiatives

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Google Cloud Platform

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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