Assessment Scientist: Masters in Psychology; Psychometrists

1001 Syneos Health, LLC; Argentina; A distancia; ARS 106.626.000 - 152.323.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Syneos Health is seeking an Assessment Scientist with a Masters in psychology to oversee eCOA implementation, translations, and endpoint reliability across global studies. This role emphasizes rigorous data quality, protocol fidelity, and collaboration with vendors and clinical teams.

Responsibilities include licensing and translating scales, designing training for raters, and ensuring endpoint integrity. Travel up to ~20% is expected in a fast-paced, client-focused environment.

Formación

• Graduate degree in psychology or behavioral sciences.
• Experience with clinical assessments and PRO measures preferred.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks in fast-paced settings.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsabilidades

• Lead eCOA implementation oversight and UAT alignment.
• Manage scales licensing, translation, and version control.
• Design and deliver tailored rater training programs.
• Ensure data integrity and study readiness across sites.

Conocimientos

Project management

Interpersonal communication

Presentation skills

Multitasking

Travel readiness

Educación

MA/MS in psychology or behavioral sciences

Herramientas

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Descripción del empleo

Assessment Scientist: Masters in Psychology; Psychometrists

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress. Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape. Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to deliver – for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with.

Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

Job Responsibilities

Assessment Scientist Core Responsibilities

eCOA Management (Endpoint Scale Implementation & UAT)

Lead scientific oversight of eCOA implementation, ensuring accurate translation of endpoint scales into digital platforms with full fidelity to protocol and scoring requirements. Drive development and review of eCOA specifications, partnering with vendors to deliver high-quality, fit-for-purpose system design. Own UAT strategy, including authoring and reviewing test scripts to validate endpoint logic, workflows, and data integrity. Lead end-to-end UAT execution, proactively identifying and resolving issues to ensure successful system delivery and study readiness.

Scales Management & Translation

Lead global scale licensing and copyright strategy, ensuring compliant and efficient use of clinical outcome assessments. Ensure accurate scale selection, version control, and implementation aligned with protocol-defined endpoints. Oversee translation strategy and vendor execution, ensuring high-quality, culturally appropriate instruments across regions. Drive consistency across source scales, translations, and eCOA/eCRF implementations to protect endpoint integrity.

Rater Training (Endpoint Reliability & Standardization)

Design and deliver tailored rater training programs to ensure high-quality, standardized endpoint data collection across sites. Define rater qualification standards and support selection of experienced, study-ready site personnel. Develop and deploy engaging training and certification programs to drive consistency in scale administration and scoring. Monitor rater performance and lead targeted remediation to minimize variability and protect endpoint reliability.

Qualifications

• Graduate (e.g., MA/MS) degree in psychology/behavioral sciences, or related field preferred
• Knowledge of psychiatric and neuropsychiatric assessments, including patient reported outcome measures. Experience rating psychiatric and/or neuropsychiatric assessments preferred
• Experience within the clinical research or pharmaceutical industry
• Excellent planning/organizational skills and ability to prioritize and multitask
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and spoken, with an ability to inform, influence, convince, and persuade
• Strong presentation skills, with experience presenting in professional settings.
• Ability to travel as necessary (approximately 20%).

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment.

Learn more about Syneos Health. http://www.syneoshealth.com

Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.

Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.

Discover what our Syneos Health colleagues already know: work here matters everywhere.

Work alongside the brightest minds in the biopharmaceutical industry taking down walls and removing barriers to speed our customers’ delivery of important therapies to patients. We are strategic thinkers who actively seek different perspectives, whether across offices or across oceans. Because we solve some of the toughest challenges facing the most prestigious healthcare companies today, you'll gain exposure and be supported with comprehensive resources including emerging technologies, data, science and knowledge sharing. The diversification and breadth of Syneos Health creates a multitude of career paths and employment opportunities. We’re a growing, global company dedicated to advancing our talent past their initial role. Discover what our 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere. We work hard, and smart, all in the name of getting much-needed therapies to those who need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday work improves patients’ lives around the world.

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• Partner with the most diverse team of experts in the industry.
• From the top down, our people are inspiring.
• Everyone has a voice and is encouraged to use it.
• Work in specialized Syneos Health teams that are therapeutically or functionally aligned for expert collaboration.
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• With this structure, everyone on your team speaks the same language and can deliver unique insights into the therapeutic environment and patient population.
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