Community Relations Specialist

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Austin, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Join us as a Clinical Relations Specialist - And utilize your skills to connect with patients, coordinate outreach efforts, provide education and resources, and ensure patients have access to the care and support they need. At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our Trialmed clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2+ years). In some cases, an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.
• Good planning, organization and time-management skills with ability to effectively prioritize workload
• Solid interpersonal and problem-solving skills to enable working in a multicultural matrix organization
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Presentation skills
• Ability to multi-task
• Proactive and detail-oriented
• Ability to work independently as well as in a collaborative team environment
• Strong business acumen and positive attitude
• High degree of accuracy, concentration and proofing skills

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of recruitment objectives, business growth and randomization targets by taking responsibility for recruitment, engagement and retention of patients at the sites.
• Build a strong network with non-medical partners (Patients advocacy groups, sport groups, schools, retirement houses) to strengthen the awareness of clinical trials.
• Locate, schedule and attend various community wide events that allows face-to-face interaction to obtain opt-in database leads.
• Cultivate and maintain respectable relations with the community and promote clinical trials attend community events.
• Maintain knowledge of current enrolling studies, timelines for the studies and protocol requirements.
• Ensure an increase in the database and actively contributes to initiatives and strategies to enroll potential participants onto the database.
• Distribute flyers, posters and other advertising material as appropriate to increase awareness of clinical trials.
• Ensure technology is utilized to fullest extent in recruitment strategies to secure on-time Enrollment.
• Manage projects and act as point of contact for various internal clients.

Benefits

• Resources needed to achieve individual career goals
• Development of novel frameworks for clinical research
• Laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services
• Reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level