Assistant Director, Clinical Trials Office Job in New Haven 06520, Connecticut Us
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General Purpose:
The Assistant Director, Clinical Trials Office (CTO) is a key leader at the Yale Cancer Center (YCC) who is responsible for overall strategic planning, directing, coordinating, evaluating, and improving the activities of the CTO shared resource. The scope of this work includes defined aspects of protocol development, review and processing; protocol implementation including subject enrollment and management and toxicity monitoring and reporting; data entry, storage retrieval and safety; and personnel management. Managers with defined areas of accountability work with the Assistant Director to ensure that clinical research goals are met.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in relevant technical field and six years of related technical experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Bachelor’s Degree in a bio-sciences related field. Five years experience in a management role. Extensive knowledge in clinical research, clinical trials management and regulatory affairs.
- Experience with implementing and monitoring research protocols in a clinical setting.
- Understanding of the requirements of clinical trials with regard to staffing, systems, and processes. Excellent communication, coordination and integration skills with experience in complex, multi-institutional collaborative models, or matrix system.
- Proven ability to manage a diverse work force.
- Strong analytical and writing skills combined with the ability to communicate effectively and diplomatically in written and verbal forms with internal and external contacts (NIH, FDA, industry) faculty, researchers and staff at all levels.
- Ability to manage several projects concurrently including those assigned to project management staff, while balancing competing priorities and deadlines. Extreme flexibility in work focus; ability to switch among several different projects without any adverse effects.
- Ability to organize and prioritize work of all project managers and regulatory staff and handle high volume of work.
- Rigorous attention to accuracy, editorial style and timeliness are critical.
- Comfortable and confident to manage projects that are outside current areas of expertise. Willingness to learn new things and ask questions to obtain required information.
- Utilize communication strategies and techniques with individuals to achieve desired results and demonstrate ability to remain objective and professional in stressful, sensitive, or difficult interpersonal situations.
- Preferred: Master’s Degree in a bio-sciences related field; A health care professional (e.g., registered oncology nurse, clinical pharmacist, etc.); oncology research experience.
- Note: Candidates without the required and preferred education will be considered if they have extensive clinical research experience
Application: For more information and immediate consideration, please apply online at www.Yale.edu/jobs - the STARS req ID for this position is 14592BR. Please be sure to reference source code IMBXX when applying for this position.
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