Clinical Trial QC Monitor
City of Hope
Job posting number: #7300561 (Ref:10029145)
Posted: February 11, 2025
Salary / Pay Rate: $39.25 - $60.84 / hour
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Clinical Trial QC Monitor-Remote
Performs comprehensive quality control (QC) monitoring of source documentation for City of Hope clinical trials. Reviews internal regulatory documents, protocols, amendments, correspondence and serious adverse event reports to maintain current knowledge and requirements of relevant protocols. Performs extensive QC visits to confirm appropriate source documentation in electronic health record (laboratory data, transfusion services records, and any other source used to produce study data) and in other electronic patient records (Florence eBinder) to confirm protocol compliance (including QC review of consent and eligibility criteria). Performs extensive review of case report forms and study data, utilizing medical records, laboratory data, transfusion services records, and any other source used to produce study data. Generates QC report, summarizing the findings of all deviations, discrepancies, and incorrect or missing source documentation. This role ensures the research enterprise maintains high standards of care and adheres to federal, state, and local regulations.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Verifies required reporting of Serious Adverse Events (SAE) to all applicable regulatory agencies (FDA, OBA, RAC, NIH, NCI) and external sponsors is completed in a timely manner.
- Reviews the original protocol and all amendments, noting dates, changes in eligibility criteria, and any modifications in treatment procedures to stay abreast with current protocol requirements to ensure adequate source documentation is available.
- Review source documentation forms prior to study start and electronic data capture system to verify consistency and accuracy regarding documentation collection and create study specific internal QC review and risk assessment plan.
- Identify, communicate and provide solutions for clinical trial issues and/or risks to study team and clinical trials leadership. Ensure quality deliverables, including identifying quality risks, and developing corrective action plans to prevent and/or correct deficiencies. Prepare and present reports on quality, risk management, and research compliance to clinical research leadership.
- Generates QC monitor reports, summarizing the findings of all protocol deviations, discrepancies, and incorrect or missing source documentation to provide to PI and study team. Independently investigate incomplete, inaccurate or missing source documentation to ensure accuracy and completeness of data. When direction is needed, provides training for sponsors, principal investigators, CRCs, and clinical research nurses.
- Serves as the subject matter expert for clinical research documentation improvement processes and regulations for regions, across the enterprise and provide recommendations to study teams and clinical research leadership. Proactively engages in internal working groups, projects, and relevant initiatives to implement change and to move QA initiatives forward, as well as to communicate to clinical research leadership on the various changes and rationale for change.
- May be required to travel to other participating sites up to perform QC review/monitoring of enrolled subjects as described above.
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Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $39.25 - $60.84 / hour
The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.
City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.