IRB Specialist II

We are seeking an IRB Specialist II-  the primary responsibility is for staffing the Institutional Review Board (IRB); for ensuring that the IRB’s work is accomplished in a timely manner, for conducting expedited reviews as a designee of the IRB Chair, for assisting IRB Specialist I and other support staff, and for serving as a consultant to clinical investigators at NCH. The IRB Specialist II works closely with the IRB Chair and Vice Chair and reports to directly to the Human Research Protection Program Director. Specialists help ensure that the Hospital’s clinical research activities are in compliance with institutional SOPs and international, federal, state, and local rules and regulations and ethical principles regarding the use of human subjects in research. They ensure that research activities at the Hospital involving human subjects are conducted in a manner that protects the safety, rights, and welfare of participants.  Position can be remote with periodic in-person visits to the NCH campus.