Compliance Specialist - Intermediate Professional

The Pennsylvania State University; United States; On-site; USD 60,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

PTO and holidays

75% tuition discount

Retirement plans

Job summary

The Pennsylvania State University is seeking a Compliance Specialist for the Cancer Institute in Hershey, PA. The role focuses on regulatory oversight to ensure high-quality, compliant research across PSCI IRB and sponsor obligations, for both ongoing trials and startup activities.

The position requires a Bachelor’s Degree with 1+ years of relevant experience. You will manage protocol amendments, adverse events reporting, and ensure staff training and certifications are up to date, collaborating

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required with 1+ years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience managing regulatory and compliance aspects across cancer clinical trials and startup activities.

Responsibilities

• Act as study startup coordinator for multiple new trials, coordinating CDA execution and documentation readiness for activation.
• Serve as liaison among PI, study team, and stakeholders across departments (budget, legal, contracts, IRB, biosafety, etc.).
• Maintain training logs and documentation; prepare reports/slides for disease team meetings and communicate action items to stakeholders.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Clinical trials coordination

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

POSITION SPECIFICS

The Cancer Institute at the Penn State College in Hershey, PA is seeking a Compliance Specialist. This position involves ensuring that the quality of research in the PSCI CTO is pristine in terms of compliance with all regulations including those from our PSCI IRB, other IRB's, FDA, sponsor's obligations etc. This applies both to active ongoing clinical trials and also to the development/startup of new clinical trials in the office. The latter (startup of new trials) are absolutely necessary to increasing clinical trials activity and help for our patients; however this process is fraught with potential error and risk management without leadership from high quality compliance specialist.

MINIMUM EDUCATION, WORK EXPERIENCE & REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor's Degree 1+ years of relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience accepted

Required Certifications: None

Manage all regulatory and compliance aspects of a portfolio of cancer clinical trials, including ensuring that the protocol investigators and staff are fully certified and trained for the trials, ensuring that they are complying with good clinical practice and following the protocol, that continuing reviews and reportable new information are performed on time, and adverse events are promptly and accurately reported. Also manage study amendments, action letters and other changes to the protocol.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary difference between this position and Compliance specialist-professional is that the number and complexity of active trials being managed will be greater.

• Act as a study startup coordinator for multiple new trials, from the process of ensuring that CDA's are appropriately executed between sponsors and investigators/Penn state, all the way up to ensuring that congruence of all documents is perfect and the study ready for activation. This involves very frequent communication with sponsor, investigators, COM offices of budget, legal, contracts, IRB and related committees (e.g. biosafety, radiation safety), as well as PSCI specific committees including protocol scientific review committee and data safety committee.
• Serve as a liaison among the PI, study team (investigators and research staff) and other stakeholders including people from other departments involved in the study but are not part of the official study team (e.g. radiology, pathology et al.). Manage training logs and other documentation required.
• Participation in disease team meetings including preparation of reports/slides for meetings. Compile information from meetings, particularly action items, and communicate them to stakeholders.

Employment with the University will require successful completion of background check(s) in accordance with University policies. Penn State does not sponsor or take over sponsorship of a staff employment Visa. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

SALARY & BENEFITS

The salary range for this position, including all possible grades, is $59,580.00 - $86,400.00.

Salary Structure - Information on Penn State's salary structure

• Penn State provides a competitive benefits package for full-time employees designed to support both personal and professional well-being.
• In addition to comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, employees enjoy robust retirement plans and substantial paid time off which includes holidays, vacation and sick time.
• One of the standout benefits is the generous 75% tuition discount, available to employees as well as eligible spouses and children.
• For more detailed information, please visit our Benefits Page.

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