Site Development Associate

POSITION TITLE:Site Development Associate

DEPARTMENT: OraNet

Ora Values the Daily Practice of …

Prioritizing Kindness * Operational Excellence * Cultivating Joy * Scientific Rigor

The Role:

The Site Development Associate is primarily responsible for assisting OraNet Posterior Segment, with Anterior Segment involvement. This position is strategic to support and overall success of the growth and maintenance of Ora's site patient network.

The Site Development Associate is accountable for identifying new clinical sites, managing site lead information, and ensuring site compliance with GCP and SOP guidelines. The associate actively contributes to site engagement, overseeing key performance indicators, conducting monthly check-in calls, and facilitating resource sharing among OraNet sites. Additionally, they play a pivotal role in drafting and executing CDAs, maintaining filing systems for site contracts, and collaborating with integrated departments for consistent growth.

What You'll Do:

• Assist in the execution of the integrated research activities at Ora's exclusive site community.
• Assist with Identifying and evaluating new clinical sites to support the delivery of Ora's portfolio of programs and therapeutic areas.
• Assist with capturing and updating new site lead information and onboarding timeline development in OraNet's site lead database.
• Scheduling calls with site leads and serving as initial OraNet point of contact.
• Assist with the ongoing capture and reporting of key performance indicator metrics at OraNet partner sites through database exports and Excel trackers.
• Assist as a liaison between network sites and study teams to ensure timely start-up and enrollment.
• Triage site questions and work with OraNet managers in build-out and roll-out of site trainings.
• Drafting, filing and facilitating execution of CDAs and OraNet agreements.
• Maintaining a filing system in SharePoint and Monday for site contracts and documents.
• Tracking of OraNet Site feasibility questionnaires and issues.
• Ensure compliance with GCP and SOP guidelines for sites within the network.
• Manage and upkeep site documentation on Monday.com and SharePoint for both segments.
• Assist with set-up of coordinator and photographer preceptorship training.
• Attend study team meetings for OraNet CAPA support.
• Be fluent in Ora's various operational models to support site engagement and ensure sites are aligned and can deliver to the various models employed at Ora.
• Assist and collaborate with integrated departments (recruiting, marketing, business development) to ensure consistency and communication to further grow OraNet.
• Conduct monthly site check-in calls, managing conference attendance, and facilitating resource sharing/strategies among OraNet sites.
• Developing resources (e.g., SOP flowcharts, R&R Chart, OraNet FAQs) for partner sites.
• Responsibilities may differ slightly from the above based on the specific needs of the business.
• Clear and sustained demonstration of the Ora's Values of prioritizing kindness, operational excellence, cultivating joy, and scientific rigor.

What We Look For:

• Experience Needed for the Role:
  • Bachelor's degree in applied or life science, a minimum of 2 years' experience in clinical trials, or equivalent training and work experience.
• Additional Skills & Attributes:
  • Knowledge of pharmaceutical business, worldwide drug development, and regulatory process.
  • Independent thinking, creativity, and innovation.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills with emphasis on building consensus.
  • Strong interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Competencies and Personal Traits:
  • Attention to Detail: Ability to analyze available data and take the time to understand as full a picture as possible to drive successful solutions to complex problems.
  • Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: Ability to lead with a positive mindset and empathy. Possess the capacity to understand others and to be aware of and sensitive to the feelings, thoughts, and experience of your colleagues and customers.
  • Intellectual Curiosity: A person's willingness and desire to learn new things and dig deeper than the surface. Intellectual curiosity makes learning a much more natural process, instead of just a duty or a chore. When you're intellectually curious, you're more willing and interested to acquire knowledge. You naturally ask more questions and seek to understand why things are the way they are.
  • Innovative Mindset: Forward thinking, creative and open to testing, making mistakes and trying again; collaborative and progress-loving, you honor the past but embrace change because the new is always coming!
  • Organization and Goal Setting: Ability to set goals, delegate appropriate tasks, maintain a focused approach to critical path work and develop structure for yourself and your team to allow for productive, high-quality workflows and decision making.
  • Resolve Conflicts: Practice radical candor in your communication with your team and colleagues as well as participating in active listening to help the other person feel heard and understood.
  • Seek Meaning and Purpose and a Desire to be Part of Something Bigger than Yourself: Crave being part of a team with diverse and complimentary skill sets that works together under shared values to achieve significant positive impact in the wider world. Live a clear and sustained demonstration of the daily practice of Ora's Values of prioritizing kindness, operational excellence, cultivating joy and scientific rigor and the linked behavioral expectations.

What We Offer:

• Well Being: Offering comprehensive healthcare options in Medical, Dental and Vision beginning day 1.
• Flexible PTO & Unlimited Sick Time: Providing you the freedom to unwind and recharge when you need to in addition to 14 company paid holidays.
• Financial: Competitive salaries along with a 401K plan through Fidelity with company match.
• Family Support Care: Adoption and fertility assistance provided along with offering 16 weeks paid Parental Leave.
• Company Paid Life & Disability Insurance: Offering peace of mind to help you and your family feel secure.
• Remote & Wellness Reimbursement: We'll reimburse you to support your remote workspace and wellness purchases.
• Employee Assistance Program: No matter what issues you're facing, New Directions is here to help you and your family.
• Career Development Opportunities:Continued opportunities to grow and develop your career journey.
• Global Team: Opportunities to work with colleagues across the globe.
• Impact: A chance to research new ophthalmic therapies that will impact patients across the globe.

Benefit Eligibility: Full-time employees of Ora working a minimum of 30 hours per week. Our per diem workforce is eligible for Medical and Dental coverage once they have hit 6 months of service and work an average of 30 hours per week.

Our mission is to weave together people, processes, and technology to support innovation in ophthalmology around the world. We believe our business should be a force for good — to improve, heal, and change how we see. As a global company, our vibrant community and culture are nurtured by our core values: Prioritizing kindness, cultivating joy, operational excellence, and scientific rigor. Through our commitment to these values, we have built an inclusive and supportive work environment that fosters respect, accountability, and a fulfilling work-life balance for every team member.

We know a diverse workforce adds to our collective value and strength as an organization. People of color, the LGBTQIA+ community, disabled candidates and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Ora is proud to be an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to equal employment opportunity and fair, equitable compensation regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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