Community Relations Specialist (Study Participant Recruitment)

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Austin, TX

17d • Onsite

About The Position

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 PPD 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. Essential Functions and Other Job Information: Supports the delivery of recruitment objectives, business growth and randomization targets by taking responsibility for the recruitment, engagement and retention of patients at the sites. Builds a strong network with non-medical partners (Patients advocacy groups, sport groups, social clubs, schools, retirement houses) to strengthen the awareness of clinical trials. Locates, schedules and attends various community wide events that allows faceto-face interaction to obtain opt-in database leads. Cultivates and maintain respectable relations with the community and promote clinical trials attend community events. Maintains knowledge of current enrolling studies, timelines for the studies and protocol requirements. Ensures an increase to the database and actively contributes to initiatives and strategies to enroll potential participants onto the database. Distributes flyers, posters and other advertising material as appropriate to increase awareness of clinical trials. Ensures technology is utilized to fullest extent in recruitment strategies to secure on-time Enrollment. Manages projects and act as point of contact for various internal clients. Job Complexity Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors. Business Relationships Contacts are primarily internal to the company with infrequent external customer / vendor contact on routine matters. Builds productive internal / external working

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).
• 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

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees