What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clinical Trials Specialist (Mays Cancer Center) position at UT Health Science Center at San Antonio?
UT Health San Antonio is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities and is designated as a Hispanic-Serving Institution by the U.S. Department of Education. With missions of teaching, research, patient care and community engagement, its schools of medicine, nursing, dentistry, health professions and graduate biomedical sciences have graduated 39,700 alumni who are leading change, advancing their fields, and renewing hope for patients and their families throughout South Texas and the world. UT Health San Antonio is a 2022 Forbes Best-In-State Employer and is fast becoming known as a place that launches and advances careers.
As an employer, UT Health San Antonio provides:
- An excellent benefits package with lower-cost health insurance options for employees as well as competitive dental and vision plans.
- A defined benefit retirement plan with matching contributions higher than the market average.
- Three to five weeks of paid time off per year, plus sick leave and paid holidays.
- Discounts at UT Health providers and facilities.
Job Summary:
- Under limited supervision, responsible for assisting with the administration, organization and implementation of trial operations, systems management, and training/education. Provides specialized and technical reviews of clinical trial research protocols, funding agreements and billing processes.
Job Duties:
- Engages team to ensure feasibility questionnaires are completed in a timely manner.
- Tracks clinical research protocols from their initial query into the Mays Cancer Center and throughtout the activation process.
- Ensures distribution and maintains inventory required for execution of research protocol(s).
- Assists in the determination of guidelines for new protocols.
- Collects and prepares data for various clinical trial related reports.
- Compiles reports, documents and correspondence for regulatory agencies, participating clinical trial sites and internal departments to monitor and evaluate progress.
- Review and provide feedback to leadership on site performance metrics
- Develops, coordinates and conducts training in collaboration with clinical trial subject matter experts.
- Serves as liaison between clinical trial management systems end users and management systems support team.
- Performs quality checks on submission documents and site essential documents.
- Serves as the sponsor point of contact for start-up items.
- Reports issues and progress to study teams.
- Performs all other duties as assigned.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in related field is required.
Experience:
- Two years (2) related experience is required.
