Clinical Trial Coordinator

Description:

CLINICAL TRIAL

A career as a Clinical Trial Manager is very challenging and demanding. A Clinical Trial Manager (CTM) has a significant role in the management of clinical trials and thus in the development of new treatments. A Clinical Trial Manager provides leadership in clinical trial activities and ensures that clinical trials are completed within budgets, in time and with the highest quality. A Clinical Trial Manager is responsible for managing the planning, implementation, and tracking of the clinical monitoring process, administration of clinical trials and maintaining an overview of ongoing clinical trials. A CTM acts as a guide to Clinical Research Associates (CRAs) and Clinical Trial Assistants (CTAs). Often CRAs and CTAs working on a project directly report to the Clinical Trial Manager. A Clinical Trial Manager eventually gets promoted to Director and Senior Director levels.

Some common roles and responsibilities performed by the Clinical Trial Manager (CTM) are:

• Supervise in-house clinical trial staff
• Guide in the creation of important study documents
• Conduct feasibility studies
• Develop study budgets
• Oversee patient recruitment
• Ensure compliance of staff with the organizations Standard Operating Procedures
• Conduct team meetings and staff training programs
• Overall responsibility of the ongoing studies
• Participate in protocol development, CRF design and clinical study report writing
• Optimize costs and resources to help improve the organizations profitability