Job Title: Program Director, UCP 8
Location: Storrs Campus
Regular/Temporary: Temporary
Job ID: 2020202
Job Posting

The University of Connecticut’s Weight Management Research Group is seeking to hire a Program Director with experience managing multiple NIH-funded trials in the area of behavioral weight loss.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Under the direction of the Principal Investigators, Drs. Tricia Leahey and Amy Gorin, the Program Director will oversee all aspects of multiple NIH-funded trials including planning, recruitment, treatment, assessment, and retention efforts. These duties may include, training research staff in study assessment procedures (e.g., measurement of weight, height, blood pressure, accelerometry) and intervention delivery focused on behavior change strategies to promote healthy eating and physical activity, promoting efficient research lab functioning including coordinating multiple study timelines/calendars, ordering supplies, and facilitating communication with outside entities related to building management, parking, and security, oversight of Institutional Review Board applications and amendments and preparing research-focused progress reports for funding entities/oversight bodies. This individual will also directly supervise study staff. The Program Director will need to spend time in Hartford each week and be available some evenings. This is a full time, annually renewable, grant funded position with the potential to be renewed for additional years pending funding.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate discipline and four to five years’ relevant experience; or Master’s degree and two to four years’ of relevant experience.
2. Demonstrated knowledge of NIH research programs and ability to identify and resolve day-to-day program problems.
3. Experience training and supervising staff involved in various research projects.
4. Excellent administrative and organizational skills, including ability to identify and resolve administrative problems.
5. Ability to plan and organize daily research activities related to clinical trials.
6. Ability to successfully recruit and counsel participants and to interpret educational records/program data and related information.
7. Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with faculty, staff, students, administrators as well as external agencies/groups and the public.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Experience managing research budgets.
2. Website management.

APPOINTMENT TERMS

This is a full-time, 12-month, annually renewable position. The investigators have projects sponsored for the next several years. Salary will be commensurate with successful candidate's background and experience. Screening of applications will begin immediately. The University offers outstanding medical and retirement benefits.

TO APPLY

Please apply online at www.jobs.uconn.edu, Staff Positions, Search #2020202. Candidates should upload a cover letter, resume, and a list of three professional references.

Employment of the successful candidate will be contingent upon the successful completion of a pre-employment criminal background check. (Search # 2020202)

This job posting is scheduled to be removed at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on October 23, 2019.

All employees are subject to adherence to the State Code of Ethics, which may be found at http://www.ct.gov/ethics/site/default.asp.

The University of Connecticut is committed to building and supporting a multicultural and diverse community of students, faculty and staff. The diversity of students, faculty and staff continues to increase, as does the number of honors students, valedictorians and salutatorians who consistently make UConn their top choice. More than 100 research centers and institutes serve the University’s teaching, research, diversity, and outreach missions, leading to UConn’s ranking as one of the nation’s top research universities. UConn’s faculty and staff are the critical link to fostering and expanding our vibrant, multicultural and diverse University community. As an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity employer, UConn encourages applications from women, veterans, people with disabilities and members of traditionally underrepresented populations.

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