Assistant Cra

**Work Schedule**

Standard (Mon-Fri)

**Environmental Conditions**

Office

**Job Description**:
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on - now and in the future.

Our clinical department defines, develops and delivers clinical programmes. We ensure the highest-quality review of data and effective interaction with study sites, including on-site monitoring throughout a study, ensuring that patients receive needed care, as well as identifying and treating clinical trial participants.

We currently have an opportunity for an Assistant CRA to join our Clinical Operations department in Belgium. The role could be either office, hybrid, or home based anywhere in Belgium.

As an Assistant CRA, you will perform remote site management and monitoring activities on assigned project(s) in accordance with the approved protocol, ICH-GCP guidelines, applicable regulations, and PPD procedural documents by reviewing study data from various sources remotely. You will contact study sites to collect study documentation, resolve issues and request outstanding information.

**A day in the Life**:

- Develops and maintains a close and collaborative communication with the site staff. Actively discusses protocol conduction, enrollment rates and strategies, open issues, EDC completion and queries, as well as any other topic or indicator associated to project status and site performance.
- Remotely reviews study logs as deemed vital.
- Conducts and documents site management calls/contacts according to the monitoring plan. Participates in investigator meetings. Investigates and follows-up on centralized monitoring findings.
- Provides refresher training, follows up on outstanding administrative needs (e.g., outstanding/updated regulatory documents), assists with regulatory reviews, as requested, etc.
- Reviews ad-hoc clinical listings review, tracks and trends violations and deviations, site status, enrollment, CRF status and SAE follow up.
- Provides trial status tracking and progress update reports to study manager.
- Participates in the investigator payment process, if applicable.
- Liaises with internal staff to promptly collect documents, review data points and findings from EDC and file reviews, etc.
- Assists in ensuring audit ready files and aligning with CTMS and eTMF data stewardship. Gives to company, client, and federal/local regulatory requirements/audit responses.
- Detailed task assignment and responsibilities are outlined on the task matrix, as well as any applicable protocol guidelines.

**Keys to Success**:
**Education**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in a life science-related field OR Registered Nurse license along with an Associate’s Degree in Nursing.

**Experience**:

- Prior clinical research experience 0-1 year as well as knowledge of clinical monitoring through classwork/training that provides the required knowledge skills and abilities.
- In some cases, previous experience in a clinical environment where experience is gained in clinical trials, data management, medical terminology, medical research or health care or experience in a health sciences field with formal training in medical terminology and anatomy may be considered.
- Prefer individuals who aspire to advance into a CRA role.

**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities**:

- Basic medical/therapeutic area knowledge and understanding of medical terminology
- Fluency in English, French and Dutch
- Ability to attain and maintain a solid understanding of ICH GCPs, applicable regulations and PPD procedural documents
- Ability to successfully complete PPD’s Clinical Foundation Training Program (CFP)
- Ability to successfully complete the RSM Onboarding Workshop
- Ability to evaluate medical research data
- Ability to advise, counsel, and motivate investigational sites
- Effective oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with medical personnel
- Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills
- Good organizational and time management skills
- Shown flexibility and adaptability
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to work in a team or independently, as the need arises
- Well-developed critical thinking skills, including but not limited to: critical approach, in-depth investigation for appropriate root