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You monitor sites. We will not ask you what a CRA does.

Contract, contract-to-hire and permanent CRA roles with US sponsors and CROs. Sent to you by someone who knows the difference between a CRA I and a Senior CRA, and why that matters.

Why people in your role call us

Monitoring is the most recruited role in the sector and the most poorly recruited.

Because CRA is a familiar title, every generalist agency thinks it can fill it. So you get contacted about roles that do not match your therapeutic area, your travel tolerance or your level, by someone who cannot tell whether a study is in start-up or close-out.

The result is that experienced monitors stop answering. You have had the call where the recruiter could not name the sponsor, could not say whether it was site-facing or in-house, and did not know what phase the study was in.

We ask those questions before we call you, because we ask them at intake with the client. If we cannot answer them, we do not have a role, we have a rumour.

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What we place you into

The engagements we typically place CRAs into.

01

Site-facing monitoring

Regional and roaming CRA roles with defined travel expectations, agreed before you interview.

02

In-house and remote monitoring

Centralised roles with little or no travel, increasingly common and competitive.

03

Central monitoring

Data-focused oversight roles for monitors moving away from the road.

04

Start-up specialist

Site activation and essential documents, where the pressure is front-loaded.

05

Lead and regional CRA

Oversight of a monitoring team rather than a site list.

06

Rescue and remediation

Studies that have drifted and need experienced monitors quickly.

What we ask you

The screen is technical, not a keyword match.

A CRA screen that only checks years and therapeutic area tells the client nothing. Ours asks about the work.

  • How you handled a site that stopped enrolling, and what you actually changed
  • Your approach when source and CRF disagree and the coordinator disagrees with you
  • What you escalate immediately versus what you resolve at the site
  • How you have worked under a risk-based monitoring plan in practice
  • Your genuine travel tolerance, stated once so nobody wastes your time

If you can answer those properly you will be represented accurately, which is most of what goes wrong elsewhere.

Rates and timelines

What you can expect.

CRA rates vary considerably by level, therapeutic area, travel expectation and whether the role is site-facing or in-house. Anyone quoting you a single national number is guessing.

We do not publish rate figures. What we do is tell you the client band before you interview, so you are not guessing what you are worth or discovering it at offer stage.

Typical time to first submission: Same week for most CRA profiles, often within 48 hours.

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Questions

What CRAs ask us.

I am tired of travelling. Do in-house roles actually exist?

Yes, and there are more of them each year as central monitoring grows. They are competitive precisely because so many experienced monitors want them, so being known to us before one opens matters.

Do you place CRA I roles or only senior?

Both, though the market for CRA I is thinner and slower. We will tell you honestly where your level sits rather than encouraging you to apply for everything.

Sponsor-side or CRO-side?

Both. They are different jobs with different pressures, and we screen for which you have actually done rather than assuming they transfer.

Will you send my resume to a CRO I already applied to directly?

Not without asking you first. Duplicate submissions damage you more than anyone, which is why we ask up front where your resume already is.

What therapeutic areas do you cover?

Cardiovascular, metabolic, CNS, renal, infectious disease, haematology and oncology most often. If yours is not there, ask, and we will tell you plainly whether we have that client base.

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Where to go next.

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The full process from resume to start date.

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