Author: Sheila Anderman
Date: 05-26-10 17:01
The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) is an urban institution with over 14,000 students, more than 500 fulltime faculty members, and twelve academic units spanning the sciences, engineering, humanities, and arts, including a major health science center with schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy. External research funding exceeds $50 million per year, and partnerships with Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute, Midwest Research Institute and local health care institutions extend the reach of UMKC to the community of Kansas City and beyond.
Duties of the IRB Compliance Specialist include, but are not limited to:
• Review all new applications for category of review and potential problems.
• Assign reviewer, monitor/support reviewer for completion of review.
• Resolve problem applications with reviewer and investigator (this requires in-depth knowledge of the federal regulations and university policy); refer unresolved problems to the director.
• Set the meeting agenda.
• Attend and assist at meetings, including recording substantive changes to consent or application.
• Initiate approval process for projects including forwarding appropriate documentation requiring change, notifying investigators of additional Board requirements, review final consents and responses from investigators, generate approval letter and complete database entry.
• Review amendments. Forward to Member(s) or Chair as appropriate for signature.
• Review adverse events and forward to Chair or Vice Chair.
• Monitor continuing (semi-annual or annual) review process; support reviewer for completion of the review.
• Review and approve exemption requests.
• Provide computer skills (user not technical) and support for the development and implementation of an electronic submission process.
• Maintain database and create reports from the database.
• Respond to Director requests as needed.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines, prioritize competing goals, and work in a deadline intensive environment.
A Bachelors degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required and two or more years of experience in IRB compliance and/or administrative aspects of clinical research, or a closely related area.
Application Deadline: June 6th, 2010. Apply online: www.umkc.edu/jobs (Position #00033332). It is the fundamental policy of UMKC to provide equal opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, Veteran status or disability status in all education, employment and contracted activities.
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