# Senior Informed Consent Specialist

**Company**: ICON
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

ICON is a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation united by a mission to bring new medicines and treatments to patients faster.

As a Senior Informed Consent Specialist at ICON, you will lead the development and oversight of informed consent strategies and documents for complex, global clinical studies. You will act as a subject matter expert, ensuring participant-facing materials are ethical, compliant, and understandable.

**Responsibilities:**

- Leading the creation, review, and optimisation of global and country-specific informed consent forms for complex or high-risk studies.

- Advising study teams on informed consent strategies, including readability, cultural considerations, and local regulatory expectations.

- Overseeing translation, localisation, and version control processes to ensure consistency and traceability across regions.

- Interacting with sponsors, ethics committees, and regulatory authorities to address consent-related queries and negotiate wording as needed.

- Developing guidance, templates, and training materials to drive standardisation and best practices within the informed consent function.

- Mentoring junior informed consent specialists and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.

**Your Profile:**

- Bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific discipline or healthcare-related field.

- Extensive experience in clinical research, regulatory affairs, ethics, or a related area with strong focus on informed consent.

- In-depth knowledge of GCP, ethical principles, and global regulatory expectations for participant information and consent.

- Exceptional writing and editing skills, with the ability to produce clear, patient-friendly documents.

- Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience liaising with sponsors, IRBs/ECs, and cross-functional teams.

- Proven ability to manage multiple complex studies and deadlines with a high degree of accuracy and ownership.

**Rewards & Benefits**

- Competitive base salary and performance related incentives.

- Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable.

- Retirement and pension plans.

- Life assurance and disability coverage.

- Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources.

- Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways.

## Skills

### Required
- GCP
- informed consent
- clinical research
- regulatory affairs
- ethics
- writing
- editing
- stakeholder management

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