Clinical Trials Ontario (CTO) is an independent, non-profit organization focused on improving and promoting the environment for clinical trials in Ontario and supporting the province as a preferred location for global clinical trials.
CTO Program Support staff (Casual) play an important role in developing and supporting CTO initiatives aimed at improving the clinical trials environment. We are seeking action-oriented, highly organized individuals with broad expertise and proficiency in clinical trials, research administration or research ethics to support our team on an as-needed/casual basis as we expand CTO programming.
CTO Program Support staff may assist in the following broad areas:
- Participate on tables, committees and tactical teams to provide expertise and aid in the establishment of new projects and initiatives
- Coordinating, collecting and/or compiling feedback to develop or improve program tools (e.g. informed consent form templates, standardized budgets, training materials, guidelines, contracts/agreements etc.)
- Collecting and reporting metrics
- Supporting CTO committees including: researching, compiling and summarizing information, preparation of critical meeting materials and summaries and managing/follow-up on action items
- Research and support for policy development and reports
- Work with CTO team to support communications programs
- Collaborate with the CTO team to implement and enhance communications initiatives
- Additional duties as assigned
Specifically, we are seeking individuals with exceptional communication and collaborative skills and hands-on experience in the following:
- Clinical trial activation processes including but not limited to: budget review and development; budget negotiations, consent form review, development and negotiation, ethics submissions
- Developing training for clinical research personnel (materials/programming)
- Research contracts administration
- Research ethics review (REB operations, review processes etc.)
- Ethics review fee structure and collection including work with sponsors and CROs to establish fee schedules and collection procedures
- Ethics review timelines including mechanisms and initiatives to improve timelines
- Research contracts, REB of Record Delegation Agreements and other contracts/agreements necessary for ethics review and trial initiation
- Research consent forms, development of consent templates and consent procedures
- Delegation of ethics review including mechanisms to work with externals ethics boards
- Research metrics and analytics to measure performance and effectiveness
Please submit applications with cover letter in confidence by email to: hr@ctontario.ca