SCREENING COORDINATOR

Description

Job Summary:

Responsible for scheduling clinical research staff to research related activities.  This practice includes building excel format staffing schedules according to study specific needs and protocols.  Additionally, responsible for obtaining staff availability and scheduling to study activities for which that staff is trained and available.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:              

• Translates protocol event schedules into staffing needs for protocol specific events.
• Creates daily assignment sheets based on protocol event schedules and assigns appropriately trained staff to each event.
• Maintains spreadsheets on staff availability and translates these to assigning available staff to weekly study activities.
• Responsible for providing clinical staff with their schedules and available to adjust schedules when needed.
• Interprets individual staff competencies to appropriately assign them to tasks that they can perform according to their training.
• Reviews Investigational Drug Brochures, protocols, Case Report Forms (CRFs), consent forms and volunteer information sheets for a thorough understanding of the study drug and procedures.
• Keeps abreast of SOPs, Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and ICH guidelines, state and national laws and ethical standards.
• As required for study or site needs and if trained and delegated may be assigned study procedures such as obtaining participant information/histories/questionaries/meals/vital signs/EKGs/drug administration/specimen collection/luggage searches.

The Statements made in the job description are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job.  These statements are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of people assigned to this job.

Qualifications

Skills/Qualifications              

• Ability to read, write, and interpret the English language.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Outlook, in addition to overall good computer skills; inclination to adopt technology to maximize efficiency.
• Demonstrate strong analytical, problem solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Detail oriented, good organizational traits.
• Self- motivated
• Result oriented, multi-tasking, quick learner, respond to the urgent needs of the team and show a strong track record of meeting deadlines.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to sit, stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, and use hands along with fingers, to handle or feel.
• Ability to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include clarity of vision both near and far. 
• Ability to identify and distinguish colors.