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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

The Penn State College of Medicine, Cancer Institute. in Hershey, PA, is seeking a Clinical Trials Workforce Development Educator & Trainer. In collaboration with the Associate Dean for Cancer Clinical Research and the Administrative Director of the Cancer Institute Clinical Trials Office, the Workforce Development Educator and Trainer supports the growth and development of the Penn State Clinical Trials Office (CTO) by achieving strategic objectives including overseeing multiple project activities related to training and education of clinical research staff and investigators. This role is responsible for ensuring cancer clinical research faculty and staff receive appropriate onboarding, initial role-specific training, and continuing education opportunities. This role is essential to ensuring safe, effective, and compliant cancer clinical research across the CTO staff. A leader within the CTO, the Workforce Development Educator and Trainer serves as a positive change agent to initiate and support progress toward achieving organizational cancer clinical research strategic goals across consortium sites. The Educator and Trainer ensures compliance with all federal and local agencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and local Institutional Review Board (IRB).

• Works in conjunction with Directors and Unit Leads, coordinates all aspects of training, educating and onboarding for all new employees (investigators and staff) in to the PSCI CTO, including the development of infrastructure that supports the on-going training and education needs for new staff
• Works with external stakeholders at PSU University Park, Greater Allegheny, the CTSI and College of Nursing on clinical research training and education programs as needed
• Oversees an entire training and education program and coordinates with Team Leads, Subject Matter Experts, and management to ensure education deadlines are met within the designated probationary period outlined through Human Resources
• Develops and maintains a tracking system to ensure initial and ongoing job competencies have been completed for all PSCI CTO staff
• Oversees education quality and regularly assesses the educational needs within the PSCI CTO
• Coordinates regularly occurring training in-services with staff; works directly with the cancer center nurses, research nurses, managers and subject matter experts to schedule required training meetings for new staff
• Works directly with PSCI CTO leadership to ensure staff maintain and follow all working instructions