Biospecimen Coordinator
City of Hope
Duarte, CA
Job posting number: #7270244 (Ref:10027204)
Posted: August 6, 2024
Salary / Pay Rate: $20.60 - $24.72 / hour
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Biospecimen Coordinator - Duarte (Full Time, Onsite)
Join the transformative team atCity of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses.City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, andtreatment facilitiesin Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix.Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission:To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
Become an integral part of City of Hope Duarte Medical Center's team! Reporting to the Supervisor of Clinical Research Division, you'll be responsible for managing intake, inventory, and release processes concerning clinical trial supplies. Assist Biospecimen Coordinators by supplying collection materials for diverse research studies and ensure efficient distribution among hospital departments. Your pivotal role involves assembling kits, overseeing their distribution, and facilitating biospecimen collection, transportation, and shipment in alignment with protocols. Additionally, you'll maintain detailed records, schedule subjects' visits, and ensure protocol adherence by monitoring clinic schedules. Contribute to groundbreaking research within a vibrant environment, where your efforts create a meaningful impact!
As a successful candidate, you will:
- Inspect incoming orders to verify type, quantity, and condition against orders.
- Assure timely distribution of supplies/kits needed for collecting research specimens.
- Maintain adequate supplies for active research studies, ensuring current viability.
- Collect documentation for storage and distribution of materials, including receipts and delivery tickets.
- Maintain inventory of specimen supplies and kits, ensuring non-expiry and organized storage.
- Interface with various research areas for appropriate distribution of necessary supplies in specimen collection.
Your qualifications should include:
- Bachelor’s degree. Experience may substitute for minimum education requirements (Associate Degree plus minimum of 2 years of experience).
- IATA certification (may be obtained after hire)
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, pleaseclick here.
Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $20.60 - $24.72 / hour
The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.
City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.
