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