Job Responsibilities:
- Oversee the daily operations of the Full Board Team including providing guidance to the team on interpretation and compliance with federal, state, and institutional requirements
- Manage operations of PSU’s IRB Committees including maintaining IRB rosters, attending meetings to serve as a regulatory expert, and voting member where appropriate, tracking member attendance, assigning submissions to meetings, and ensuring appropriate documentation of IRB meeting minutes as required by federal regulations and by University policy
- Onboard, train, and perform evaluations of IRB members and develop and maintaining IRB member continuing education
- Develop, update, and maintain IRB policies, guidelines, standard operating procedures, and submission forms in response to regulatory and institutional changes and feedback received by the HRPP
- Develop and maintain IRB training materials, present seminars/workshops to the PSU research community about regulations and policies governing human participants in research
- Assist with the processing of Reportable New Information submissions and inquiry and/or investigation of non-compliance with IRB policies and applicable federal regulations
- Serve as a representative of the HRPP and subject matter expert in various capacities both internal within the ORP and external on University level committees and groups where necessary
- Interact with other University compliance committees and various other offices such as the Office of Research Information Systems, Office of Sponsored Programs, Office of General Counsel, Office of Information Security, and faculty, staff, and students at all Penn State campuses across the commonwealth
Education:
MS, Bioethics, Columbia University
CIP, Certified IRB Professional
