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Join the transformative team at City 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, and treatment facilities in 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.

As a Clinical Research Associate I, you'll support multiple research protocols with a focus on patient consenting, clinic support, and regulatory compliance-helping ensure studies run efficiently and ethically. With mentorship from experienced staff, you'll play a hands-on role in recruiting participants, educating patients on their rights, tracking consent activity, and supporting biospecimen kit preparation and delivery across clinical locations.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Consent patients in person, by phone/virtual visit, and via electronic consenting platforms for multiple research protocols.

• Approach and educate patients with confidence, compassion, and a friendly, professional demeanor-answering questions and ensuring informed decision-making.

• Support recruitment efforts and protocol-specific clinic needs, partnering with clinic teams to meet study requirements.

• Maintain confidentiality and build strong relationships with patients, visitors, and hospital personnel.

• Attend clinics as needed across locations (including Duarte and the Lennar Foundation Cancer Center in Irvine) to support consenting activities.

• Track, record, and report consenting activity and protocol metrics with accuracy and consistency.

• Prepare and deliver protocol-specific biospecimen collection kits to designated clinical locations.

• Collect, label, process, and transport specimens safely including coordinating shipments outside of City of Hope and completing required request forms.

Your qualifications should include:

• Associate's Degree.

• Experience may substitute for minimum education requirements.

• One-year experience working in a health care setting, preferably in research.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree.

• Medical Record, Health Information Systems, clinical trials exposure or related health field.

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.

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