**Description**
**Site Activation Specialist I**
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**
General:
- Responsible for providing quality on deliverables at the country level and follows project requirements and applicable country rules, with oversight from the SSU Country Manager.
- Works within the forecasted submission/approval timelines and ensures they are complied with and tracks milestone progress in agreed upon SSU tracking system in real time; if forecasted timelines are not reached provides clear rationale for delays, assists with contingency plan to mitigate impact, and escalates the issue as soon as identified.
- Monitors basic financial aspects of the project and the number of hours/tasks available per contract; escalates discrepancies in a timely fashion.
- Reviews and complies with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Work Instructions (WIs) in a timely manner, keeps training records updated accordingly and ensures timesheet compliance.
- Ensure all relevant documents are submitted to the Trial Master File (TMF) as per Company SOP/Sponsor requirements.
Responsible for one or more of the following functions at the country level:
- Local Submissions Specialist - Follows the project direction provided by the designated country start-up advisor (CSA) and SAL. May serve as a point of contact for the SAL/PM (or designee) during start-up on allocated projects. Compiles and/or reviews essential document packages for site activation and may also be involved in essential document collection from site.
- Prepares and submits Central EC Applications, Local EC Applications, RA Applications, and other local regulatory authorities or hospital approval submissions as required and under supervision. Prepares ongoing submissions, amendments, and periodic notifications required by central and local EC and RA, and other local regulatory authorities as needed within the country; includes safety notifications as required by local rules, with oversight from the SSU Country Manager.
- May act as liaison and facilitator between investigational sites and functional leads for related tasks and/or issues. Oversee site activation end to end process at country/ site level.
- Local Site ID and Feasibility Support - Provides support with site selection lead and PM/SAL to ensure that the appropriate sites are selected for individual studies based on the requirements of the clinical trial.
- Local Investigator Contract and Budget Negotiator - Supports the SAL to agree on country template contract and budget. Assists in producing site-specific contracts from country template. Under supervision assist in negotiations of budget and contract with site and via Site Contracts Service Centre and SAL lead with Sponsor until resolution of issues and contract execution. Assists with quality control and arranges execution of CTAs as well as archival of documents into repositories and capture of metadata.
**Qualifications**
**What we're looking for**
- Associate degree or equivalent combination of education and training.
- Good understanding of clinical trial process across Phases II-IV and ICH GCP, Ability to interact effectively and appropriately with investigative site personnel.
- Good organizational skills and good attention to detail, with proven ability to handle multiple tasks effectively.
- Ability to take direction from mu