
Job Description :
Institutional Review Board (IRB) Manager
Responsible for oversight, administration, coordination, and writing IRB policies, procedures, and activities related to the protection of the safety, rights, and welfare of human research subjects and for ensuring institutional compliance with Saudi governmental regulations related to human subjects research.
Requirements and Responsibilities :
Bachelor’s Degree in Science (e.g. Microbiology, Biology), Medicine, Dentistry, Optometry, Nursing, Pharmacy, Biomedical, Health/Social Behavior, Public Health or equivalent from an accredited university with a minimum of Three (3) years experience in university/research institution setting/IRB (Essential).
OR,
Master’s Degree in Biomedical, Science, Health/Social Behavior field, Public Health or equivalent from an accredited university with a minimum of Two (2) years experience in a university/research institution setting (Desirable).
Certified IRB Professionals (CIP)/Certified IRB Manager (CIM) from an accredited national or international organization (Desirable).
Principles and Responsibilities :
Institutional Review Board (IRB) Manager
1. Ability to write and implement IRB policies, procedures, and activities related to the protection of the safety, rights, and welfare of human research subjects in conjunction with the Director of Research.
2. Ability to advise on matters of general research compliance and ethical human participant research practices.
3. Maintains IRB reference files, prepares a list of certified investigators and regularly updates their ethics certificate status.
4. Maintains database and status of active projects.
5. Alerts investigators of upcoming progress reports, and assures compliance with quarterly and annual reporting.
6. Maintains primary record (original copies) of all consent forms, authorship clarification forms, research declaration forms, and clearance forms for the principal investigator.
7. Responsible for announcing, scheduling, and record-keeping of IRB Committee meetings.
8. Responsible for the implementation of RAC/Research Department Head instructions and guidelines
9. Compliance in the submission of Quality Assessment Indicators and following guidelines set by SFDA, NCBE, CBAHI, and JCIA.
10. Prepares statistical and progress reports of IRB on a monthly and quarterly basis as directed by the Director and Associate Director of Research.
11. Trains ophthalmology Fellows, Residents, Research Trainees, and KKESH staff in the principles of ethical human participant research practices.
12. Works with all Medical Staff and Trainees in improving projects submitted to the IRB Committee, for their thesis and publications. At least sixteen (16 ) research projects per month.
13. Respond to any queries raised by the Data Safety Monitoring Committee and assist, if needed.
14. Performs all duties in a professional, effective, courteous, and confidential manner.
15. Performs all other duties as required and/or assigned.
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