Quality Assurance Specialist
Company: Medical Science
Location: Rockville
Posted on: June 21, 2022
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Job Description:
Overview
We are currently searching for a Quality Assurance Specialist to
provide support to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This
opportunity is a full-time position with MSC and it is onsite in
Rockville, MD.
Duties & Responsibilities
* Support the development, implementation, maintenance, and
oversite of a clinical quality management system.
* Facilitate working groups to collaborate and write
project-controlled documents as part of the quality management
system: SOPs, Policies, Audit reports, etc.
* Support the development and implementation of the Division's
electronic Clinical Quality Management System (Master Control).
* Stay current with changes to current GCP/GCLP regulations,
including FDA, EU, and other regulatory bodies and guidance
bodies.
* Lead internal and external audits of the various quality elements
to ensure compliance to GCP/GCLP, industry best practices and
guidance.
* Participate in oversight and management of Investigator Site
Audits, Internal Audit and Clinical Vendors/CROs Quality Programs
with guidance from management.
* Support the development and/or review of GCP/GCLP audit agendas,
audit plans, audit reports, and CAPA's for internal & external
audits.
* Participate in preparations for regulatory inspections, which may
include reviewing Inspection Readiness Plans, Mock Inspections, and
risk-based management of program inspection quality events.
* Assist in resolving compliance issues at clinical sites, clinical
vendors, and laboratories; and provide assessment of the impact of
any deficiencies.
* Review, track and/or trends routine quality data.
* Report adverse trends to management with remediation plan.
* Coordinate the development of various QA related metric
reports.
Requirements
* Bachelor's degree in a related discipline.
* Minimum of five (5) years of experience in clinical research or a
related field.
* Experience in establishing and managing quality management
systems for clinical research (e.g. in pharmaceutical companies,
biotechnology companies, CRO, or government sponsors).
* Working knowledge of the quality management cycle (i.e., PDCA),
and corrective Action/Prevention Action (CAPA) processes.
* Experience with US and international Good Clinical Practice
(GCP), Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP) regulations,
guidance documents, and industry best practice in all areas of a
GxP environment.
* Knowledge of electronic clinical quality management systems (such
as Veeva, Master Control, etc.) is preferred.
* Experience in regulatory inspections from the US FDA or similar
government regulatory authorities is preferred.
* Experience conducting or overseeing audits is preferred.
* Experience working at a clinical research site is preferred.
* Experience in the NIH or other government agency is
preferred.
* General skills:
* Excellent communication skills both verbally and written; and
across functions internally and externally.
* The ability to organize, prioritize and deliver tasks & projects
according to pre-defined deliverables.
* The ability to effectively build and maintain relationships with
multiple departments and external entities (e.g., Investigator
sites, clinical Vendors/CROs) in order to effectively solve
problems o Excellent multi-tasking, analytical, organizational and
teamwork skills.
* Ability to troubleshoot, identify root cause and systematically
resolve problems.
* Produces high-quality work on complex problems with
cross-functional involvement.
* Proficient in Window based software to include Excel, Word.
Company Description
Dovel Technologies and its Family of Companies (Medical Science &
Computing and Ace Info Solutions) was acquired in October 2021.
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