Clinical Research Safety Associate

Overview

Everest Clinical Research (Everest) is a full-service contract research organization (CRO) providing a broad range of clinical research services to worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. We work with many of the best-known companies and advanced drugs, biologics, and medical devices in development today. Everest has operated as an independent CRO since 2004, with a strong foundation as a statistical and data management center of excellence.

Our headquarters are in Markham, Ontario, Canada, with additional sites in Bridgewater, NJ, USA;
Shanghai, China; and Taipei, Taiwan. Everest is known for high-quality deliverables, superior customer service, and flexibility in meeting client needs. We are a dynamic organization with an entrepreneurial origin and continued growth.

To drive continued success in this exciting clinical research field, we are seeking committed, skilled, and customer-focused individuals to join our winning team as Clinical Research Safety Associate for our Toronto/Markham, Ontario, Canada on-site location, or remotely from a home-based office anywhere in Canada in accordance with our Work from Home policy.

• Serve as the DMC Secretary and perform hands-on administrative tasks for assigned projects, according to Everest’s SOPs. These tasks include, but are not limited to, the following:
• • Assist with the identification, recruitment, and engagement of committee members, including contract negotiations, consultant agreements, and administration of honorarium payments.
  • Serve as the liaison between the committee and the sponsor.
  • Write the committee Charter and its amendments and circulate for review, finalization, and sign-off by the committee and Sponsor.
  • Assist with coordinating the preparation of the committee Data Reports by external or internal statistical programming teams and the delivery of the Data Reports and other deliverables to the committee members, according to the Charter.
  • Plan, schedule, and coordinate all committee meetings, produce meeting minutes, and assist the DMC Chair with the Recommendations Letter, according to the Charter.
• Support project management of the DMC area with activities focused on planning and execution of DMC administration tasks and biostatistical support for these committees for assigned projects. This role will involve planning, assessing, reporting, and tracking the progress status of the assigned projects, and monitoring the day-to-day operations of assigned projects to ensure goals and objectives are met, policies and procedures are followed, and service is provided effectively and efficiently.
• Manage the planning, implementation, conduct, and reporting of assigned projects within established timelines and budgets, with high quality and in compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate activities between Everest and trial sponsors, and with various supporting groups or vendors when necessary.
• Support medical writing and clinical safety monitoring teams by performing quality control (QC) review of document deliverables, including clinical study reports (CSR), clinical study protocols, informed consent forms, patient safety narratives, safety management plans, scientific publications, and other documents intended for regulatory use.
• Under supervision, perform medical writing tasks, including but not limited to, writing of simple clinical study reports, simple study protocols, and other regulatory documents.
• Perform data verification (QC) on statistical programming outputs against data sources such as patient case report forms or other information provided. Report discrepancies found during the QC procedure.
• Perform consistency review of document formats, styles, and overall layout according to a document style guide.
• Learn and perform document e-publishing for clinical trial and regulatory documents, including CSRs and tables, listings, and graphs (TLGs), which may include collection, scanning, electronic assembly, bookmarking, hyperlinking of documents, document cleaning, and header/pagination stamping, etc., to meet specific publishing requirements and timelines.
• May assist with case…