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University of Miami Manager Research Support in Miami, Florida
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The UHealth system at the University of Miami has an exciting opportunity for a Manager, Research Support.
SUMMARY
The Manager, Research Support provides program support to facilitate research. Furthermore, the Manager, Research Support oversees research operations to ensure efficiency and compliance with applicable regulations.
CORE JOB FUNCTIONS
Contributes to basic and applied research activities by collecting and analyzing data and maintaining databases.
Understands and interprets research protocols and procedures and ensures all research is undertaken according to best practices.
Provides guidance, mentorship, and oversight to junior research staff and students.
Conducts meetings with research and other staff, outside agencies, and other applicable organizations and ensures functions are coordinated in a timely and accurate manner.
Provides technical and program support and resolves operational problems.
Assists in the preparation and publication of manuscripts and other program-related documents and reports.
Stays abreast of developments in the field which may impact department functions.
Advances expertise through continued education, training, and research.
Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.
This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.
CORE QUALIFICATIONS
DEPARTMENT ADDENDUM
Department Specific Functions
The manager will support research activities under the direction of the principal investigator (Sara St George PhD). Dr. St George’s program of research is focused on promoting health, preventing chronic disease, and fostering positive relationships among Hispanic families by developing, evaluating, and disseminating evidence-based multigenerational digital lifestyle interventions.
The position is full-time, with remote and in-person presence at the Miller School of Medicine at the Medical Campus of University of Miami.
Ongoing projects in the lab which the manager would support are:
Healthy Juntos: This is an efficacy trial of a family-based digital obesity prevention intervention (“Healthy Juntos”) for Hispanic parents and their 12–15-year-old adolescents. Healthy Juntos is a web-based application that includes eleven modules of content for parents and adolescents delivered over six months. Eligible families who chose to participate in the study will be randomly assigned to either use our family health app or receive free digital health resources.
Con Cariño Abuelita: This is a pilot study of a multi-generational family-based digital cancer and obesity prevention intervention (“Con Cariño Abuelita”) for Hispanic cancer survivors and their daughters/daughters in-law. Con Cariño Abuelita is a web-based application that includes eight modules of content delivered over three months. Eligible families who chose to participate in the study will be randomly assigned to either use our family health app or receive free digital health resources.
Primary duties and responsibilities:
Overall project management across the lab (e.g., tracking recruitment milestones, assisting with progress reports, tracking overall project progress and coordinating team members to ensure timely completion of projects).
Attending weekly lab meetings and project-specific meetings and supervising staff in preparing agendas and minutes for these meetings. The manager may also assist with running meetings, preparing agendas and minutes when needed.
Holding weekly group or individual staff meetings to provide overall supervision to research team members.
Attending/leading meetings with community partners for ongoing projects or building new relationships with new community partners.
Facilitating transitions between staff (e.g., developing job postings for new research assistants, reviewing applications, helping with hiring and training research assistants in the lab).
Completing weekly individual meetings with PI to report on overall study progress, as needed.
Providing staff supervision (e.g., staff reviews, supervision, approval of time off).
Preparing materials for IRB review, processing approved materials, and supervising other team members on this.
Ensuring team members’ compliance with IRB approved protocols and working with PI to report non-compliance and address through corrective action plans.
Leading “root cause analysis” discussions with team members if non-compliance occurs and developing corrective action plans as needed.
Developing and providing feedback on SOPs for studies, projects, and the lab.
Ensuring team members’ compliance with SOPs and supervising updates to SOPs based on emerging issues.
Supervising other team members’ recruitment and retention efforts (e.g., problem solving recruitment barriers, creating actionable recruitment plans, etc.). The hire may also assist directly with these efforts, as needed.
Identifying potential measures for studies and problem-solving ways to access them if need be.
Training team members in programming surveys in REDCap and checking programmed surveys to ensure their accuracy and functioning. This may also involve directly programming when needed.
Supporting or potentially supervising qualitative analyses and data cleaning.
Developing new and scaffolding old organizational systems and infrastructure for the lab and ensuring consistent use of these systems among team members.
Managing petty cash for the lab (e.g., meeting with DPHS finance to ensure petty cash is accurate at all times, submitting reimbursements to DPHS finance, tracking reimbursements, administering participant payments, providing annual reports to UM on payments and petty cash)
Assisting with setting up consultant and vendor agreements for the lab (e.g., preparing paperwork, coordinating with finance and PI to ensure payments are sent as planned by the lab)
Supporting manuscript development and submission processes.
Supporting grant development and submissions (e.g., preparing sections of grants, coordinating multiple Co-I’s on a grant submission, working with finance to assist with administrative side of grant submission, etc.).
Supporting adherence to Miller School of Medicine procedures for human subjects research.
Supporting collaborations with other research teams, schools, universities, partners, or investigators.
Department Specific Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field required.
Master’s degree or higher in a related field (e.g., psychology, public health, implementation science, prevention science) preferred.
Experience:
Minimum 3 years of relevant experience
Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes:
Knowledge of business and management principles.
Ability to direct, manage, implement, and evaluate department operations.
Ability to establish research team goals, and objectives that support the strategic plan for the team.
Ability to effectively plan, delegate and/or supervise the work of others.
Ability to lead, motivate, develop, and train others.
The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.
UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.
Patient safety is a top priority. As a result, during the Influenza ("the flu") season (September through April), the University Of Miami Miller School Of Medicine requires all employees who provide ongoing services to patients, work in a location (all Hospitals and clinics) where patient care is provided, or work in patient care or clinical care areas, to have an annual influenza vaccination. Failure to meet this requirement will result in rescinding or termination of employment.
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Job Status:
Full time
Employee Type:
Staff
Pay Grade:
A10
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