Senior Program Manager
- Requisition no: 540594
- Work type: Full Time
- Location: Medical Center
- School/Department: Neurology
- Grade: Grade 105
- Categories: Health/Clinical, General Administration
- Job Type: Officer of Administration
- Bargaining Unit:
- Regular/Temporary: Regular
- End Date if Temporary:
- Hours Per Week: 35.00
- Standard Work Schedule: Monday- Friday 9:am to 5:pm.
- Building: 710 West 168th Street
- Salary Range: $110,000.00 $130,000.00
The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the University's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.
Position Summary
The Senior Program Manager will lead the day-to-day management and oversee various basic science and translational research studies in the Initiative for Columbia Ataxia and Tremor (ICAT) to advance research execution, staff training, setting up Standard Operating Manuals, assisting in grant writing, and generating progress reports.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement systems for standardized data analyses, figure preparation, manuscript writing, and paper revision.
- Manage data sharing and workload distribution within the lab.
- Plan and draft grant proposal and work with pre-award administrators to submit the grant.
- Draft progress report for NIH and foundations to ensure grant renewal.
- Work with postdoctoral researchers and technicians to advance research.
- Setting up Standard Operational Manuals for each procedure
- Standardize the paper writing format in the lab.
- Standardize and streamline figure formats.
- Build and maintain lab inventories of reagents.
- Work with postdoctoral researchers and technicians to maintain mouse colonies.
- Meet with postdoctoral researchers and technicians regularly.
- Re-format the manuscript to tailor to each journal style for submission
- Manuscript writing
- Hire, orient, train research staff or new postdoctoral researchers
- Plans, develops, implements, and coordinates research projects.
- Liaising between PIs/project teams as needed to support troubleshooting.
- Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in education and experience and 4 years of related experience
- Program management experience required.
- Experience developing, submitting, and/or administering grant proposals required.
- Excellent competence with computers and modern communication tools is required; a proven proficiency with MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Photoshop, Illustrator, ChatGPT required.
- Exceptional time management, prioritization, and organizational skills required.
- Ability to anticipate needs and take action with minimal direction required.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
- Ability to maintain the highest level of confidentiality and to engender trust required.
- Strong interpersonal skills, a collaborative nature, and the ability to take initiative required; and,
- Reliability, integrity, grace under pressure and a sense of humor are all valued attributes.
Preferred Qualifications
- Ph.D. preferred.
- Physiology background
- 10+ years of experience in research
- 10+ years of project management experience
- Minimum of 5 years of working knowledge of the NIH Grant pre- and post-submission process, including but not limited to the following grant types: R01, RO3, U54, U01, DoD
- 10+ years of progressive experience managing research team(s)
- Demonstrated experience with research and analysis, including the ability to synthesize scientific data and create storylines for manuscripts and grants.
- Strong writing skills
- Strong project management skills
- The ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment, with the ability to self-direct and prioritize among competing goals and to work both independently and collaboratively.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to manage multiple and competing demands, establish priorities, and meet deadlines with minimal oversight.
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