Project Associate

Clinical Research Project Associate - Monday - Friday (7:30 AM- 4:00 PM) - Greater Kansas City Area

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.

Looking to gain experience in the clinical research space? We are currently seeking a Project Associate to join our diverse and dynamic team in Lenexa, Kansas (KS). As a Project Associate at ICON, you will play a pivotal role in providing key administrative support in clinical operations and project management, ensuring projects align with contract and client expectations. This role is vital to achieving quality documentation, reinforcing chain-of-custody and retention controls, and ensuring accurate, fully traceable archiving.

What you will be doing:

• Organize classify, index, file, retrieve and store records and documents in the document storage filing system
• Overseeing internal and client project reporting, ensuring accuracy in reports for project status and financial tracking, along with system updates and queries.
• Ensure that material submitted for archiving corresponds to that described in chain of custody documentation
• Maintain the documentation storage to ensure that it is organized and has a clear path to entry and exit and remains in compliance with SOPs
• Support the project manager to facilitate sponsor audits by performing review of index file and providing notification of missing documents
• Maintain the templates and forms used in support of document storage to ensure that they are current and readily accessible to project teams
• Preparing and maintaining study files, ensuring compliance with filing/naming guidelines in the electronic trial master file, and tracking document status.

Your profile:

• Associates or BS degree, or equivalent experience with HS diploma/GED
• Experience in an administrative capacity managing documentation and multiple systems, preferred
• Experience in a CRO, pharmaceutical company, clinical research, or highly regulated environment is nice to have
• Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) experience, nice to have
• Proficiency in computerized information systems and standard application software, including MS Office.
• Strong skills in MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook, with experience in maintaining Excel trackers and building PowerPoint slides.

What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements
• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
• Life assurance
• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here

Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

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