• Job Description

  Req#: 71019

  Pay Range

  $65,400.00-$101,300.00

  Company Overview

  The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursue our mission at MSK and around the globe. One of the world’s most respected comprehensive centers devoted exclusively to cancer, we have been recognized as one of the top two cancer hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report for more than 30 years.

  Vaccination for COVID-19 and Influenza (flu) is mandatory for all MSK staff. Staff are considered fully vaccinated upon completion of a primary vaccination series for COVID-19 (i.e., one dose of a single dose vaccine or a final dose of a multi-dose vaccine series). Exceptions from the COVID-19 and Influenza (flu) vaccine requirements are permitted for those who request and receive an approved medical, religious, or fully remote exemption. Requests for exemption can take up to two weeks to review. Vaccination or an approved exemption is required to start work.

  Job Description

  Are you passionate about eliminating cancer health disparities?

  We have an exciting opportunity for a Research Project Associate (RPA) to join our dynamic Cancer Health Equity Research Program (CHERP)! CHERP’s mission is to decrease health disparities experienced by racial, ethnic, and low-socioeconomic populations by expanding their access to clinical trials. We have partnerships with several local community hospitals and through these partnerships we help underserved patients enroll on therapeutic clinical trials.

  In this role, you will work on-site with our partner sites, serving as a liaison between the site and MSK. You will provide data management and regulatory support for open studies at and on-site management of day-to-day protocol operations. You will also facilitate referral and navigation of patients from partner sites to MSK for clinical trials.

  You Are:

  • Committed and eager to embrace new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
  • Able to hold yourself and others accountable in order to achieve goals and live up to commitments.
  • An effective communicator, capable of determining how best to reach different audiences.
  • Independent, flexible, and able to meet tight deadlines.
  • Knowledgeable of the regulations pertaining to human subject protection and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

  You will:

  • Perform all data management activities for all studies and referrals for the CHERP program, ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
  • Be responsible for protocol submission, drafting site consents, reviewing protocol logistics.
  • Facilitate in navigating CHERP site patients to MSK clinical trials at main campus.
  • Participate in special projects and task forces as determined by management.
  • Use appropriate methodologies to collect patient/human subject information for a research project, database, and/or protocol.
  • Generate reports to all necessary parties on the progress of the research project, protocol, or database.
  • Communicate with staff at all levels (principal investigators, clinical and research support staff).
  • Perform regular audits to ensure that the data collected is complete and accurate and that research project was carried out as outlined.
  • Be responsible for regulatory compliance and ensures that all appropriate Institutional, State, and Federal regulations are followed.
  • Ensure that research protocols are approved by the Institutional Review Board and followed as written.
  • Manage ongoing departmental projects and create processes to ensure that goals are met.
  • Participate or coordinate on both inter-institutional and intra-institutional organization-wide research projects as requested.
  • Provide leadership, organizational, creative, or clerical support to established and new research initiatives.

  You need:

  • A minimum of a High School Diploma with at least 3-4 years of clinical research experience
  • Strong analytical and data management skills; database knowledge a plus
  • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office, Excel, Access
  • Experience or interest in health disparities
  • Spanish language proficiency preferred
  • Outstanding judgment, initiative, and attention to detail

  Are you ready to learn more about our Benefits?

  Pay Range $65,400.00-$101,300.00

  Please click to find out more about MSK’s compensation philosophy!

  Closing

  MSK is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran status or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision.

  Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

• About the company

  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is a cancer treatment and research institution in New York City, founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital.

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