Clinical Trials Trainer

CVAUSA is seeking an experienced, energetic, and highly organized Clinical Trials Training Leader to help build and standardize training across a rapidly growing national cardiovascular clinical research network. This is a highly collaborative leadership role focused on workforce development, operational consistency, onboarding excellence, and scalable training systems.

Location: Remote with Frequent Travel to Clinical Research Sites

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of standardized clinical research training programs across the CVAUSA research network.
• Create scalable onboarding pathways for new employees across multiple research roles and locations.
• Establish competency-based training programs with clear milestones, assessments, and training documentation.
• Standardize role-specific onboarding processes to ensure consistency across all research sites.
• Collaborate with research leadership and optimization consultants to align training programs with operational goals and quality initiatives.
• Develop training roadmaps for newly launched research sites and developing research teams.
• Provide direct onboarding and training for new Clinical Research Coordinators, Data Coordinators, and Screening & Enrollment Coordinators.
• Coordinate structured shadowing, mentorship, and skills development programs.
• Ensure staff demonstrate competency in GCP and ICH guidelines, Human subject protections, Protocol adherence, Source documentation, Screening and enrollment workflows, Regulatory compliance, Sponsor expectations, CTMS and eSource workflows, Participant engagement and retention.
• Partner with operational leadership to identify training gaps and implement corrective education plans.
• Help establish consistent workflows and operational standards across all research locations.
• Develop standardized job aids, quick reference guides, competency checklists, training manuals, and onboarding materials.
• Support implementation and adoption of REALTIME CTMS, eSource workflows, Digital regulatory processes, Standardized screening and enrollment procedures.
• Travel to clinical research sites to provide in-person onboarding, training, mentorship, and operational support.
• Conduct site readiness and training assessments for new and developing locations.
• Assist sites with workflow optimization and staff development initiatives.
• Coordinate and lead remote training sessions, webinars, and virtual workshops for geographically distributed teams.
• Ensure training programs align with ICH-GCP guidelines, FDA regulations, Sponsor requirements, Internal SOPs and quality standards.
• Maintain training documentation and competency records.
• Support audit readiness initiatives through standardized education and retraining programs.
• Participate in development and revision of SOPs, training materials, and operational processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent clinical research experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of clinical research experience.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience training or mentoring clinical research personnel.
• Strong operational understanding of clinical trial workflows and site operations.
• Experience with study startup, screening and enrollment, source documentation, regulatory compliance, CTMS workflows.
• Ability to travel regularly to research sites.
• Strong organizational, presentation, and communication skills.
• Self-starter with strong initiative and ability to work independently.