Description
Assessment Scientist, Clinical Surveillance & Training
Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.
Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.
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 accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.
Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:
WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE
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 our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.
Job Responsibilities
Provides scientific services for Syneos health projects from within the Clinical Surveillance & Training (CST) department. Works with assigned team to develop and deliver scale training, rater curriculum, scale worksheets, translations, and endpoint review for projects under the supervision of a team member if needed. Applies clinical and trial methodology knowledge to help ensure reliability/validity of outcome data in assigned clinical trials, advancing evidence-based science with every touchpoint/service.
Plays an integral role in the implementation of CST programs, ensuring timely delivery of services and advancing evidence-based scientific activities within the team. May provide both internal and external therapeutic training and assessment instrument training as needed and as indication expertise applies. May interact with senior management, customers, and project teams to ensure scientific integrity and data quality in clinical trials. Provides scientific input as needed within the company and may contribute to business development activities.
- Contributes to scale selection and draft protocol review
- Participates in the development of endpoint review, rater qualification, training, and certification plans, documents, reports, etc.
- Contributes to scales management and translations deliverables
- Reviews case report forms and electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA) pages to ensure consistency between the database and original scale, and provides feedback to team
- Works with vendors and/or Company staff involved in training regarding the use of clinical scales, diagnostic instruments, or provision of (eCOA) technology
- Provides internal Syneos Health and site staff training on therapeutic indications, scale administration, and scale scoring
- Performs clinical and statistical analysis of rating scale, and/or endpoint data
- Provides professional, collaborative, and scientific feedback to investigators
- Continuously improves clinical and scientific expertise through research and publication. Maintains familiarity with current relevant literature
- Provides scientific and clinical expertise to Sponsors, study teams, and the Company. May serve as indication subject matter expert
- May support business development activities by providing scientific proposal text, protocol considerations and/or slides. May participate in bid defense meetings
Qualifications
What we’re looking for
- 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.
At Syneos Health, we believe in providing an environment and culture in which Our People can thrive, develop and advance. We reward and recognize our people by providing valuable benefits and a quality-of-life balance. The benefits for this position may include a company car or car allowance, Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision, Company match 401k, eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance, and flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time. Because certain states and municipalities have regulated paid sick time requirements, eligibility for paid sick time may vary depending on where you work. Syneos complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements.
The annual base salary for this position ranges from $63,090 to $126,100. The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the Syneos Health range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.
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.
