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RESEARCH PROGRAM LEADER - Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Duke University
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Community Outreach & Education Division

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Duke University’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has an immediate opening for a Research Program Leader

Occupational Summary

Develop, coordinate, and implement research and administrative strategies essential to the successful management of epidemiological research programs led by investigator(s) and faculty. Perform and/or oversee a variety of complex duties involved in the collection and evaluation of research program data to monitor progress toward program and project milestones. Provide guidance on portfolio/project implementation strategy to provide direction for research activities within the portfolio or program. Assist with efforts to obtain and manage study or program funding. Frequently interact with other research groups or programs, by serving as primary liaison and public relations lead for research program and related projects. Coordinate wider program activities with responsibility for results in terms of costs, methods, and reporting requirements.

Work Performed

  • Applies expertise in observational research study design and data interpretation to:

(1) draft and revise research protocols, including, but not limited to, REDCap-based forms for electronic medical record abstraction and corresponding abstraction SOPs/protocols and training materials, for studies of racial, gender, socioeconomic, or geographic inequalities in gynecologic health and

(2) supervises abstraction of 1,000+ electronic medical records per project as well as designing and executing comprehensive quality control processes for abstraction

  • Generates and defines measures for short- and long-term goals of the research program. Identifies gaps, constraints, needs, and milestones; develops and executes operational sustainability plan and coordinates with Principal Investigator to plan necessary resourcing. Communicates project/program progress with all major stakeholders and adjusts plans and timelines and budgets according to feedback
  • With the Principal Investigator, directs the hiring, onboarding, and supervision of a dynamic interdisciplinary research team of post-doctoral researchers, research assistants, data programmers, and medical record abstractors engaged in observational research about gynecologic health, health care, and outcomes
  • Oversees and trains research program team members in developing and submitting materials for IRB review; prepares and submits documents needed for regulatory compliance and safety reporting to sponsors and other entities; and identifies and documents adverse event information to appropriate regulatory bodies
  • Drafts and develops database queries using tools such as i2b2. Drafts computable phenotypes for use in cohort identification and dataset variable construction
  • Provides intellectual contribution regarding gynecologic health and healthcare to draft and edit sections of research proposals and manuscripts
  • Synthesizes key information about processes and people relevant for executing equity-focused observational research in the health care system, demonstrating the organizational awareness and interpersonal skills necessary to execute work efficiently and leverage institutional resources for the Principal Investigator’s research program.

Education/Training: Completion of a Bachelor's degree

Experience: Work requires a minimum of four years of research experience (e.g., research, clinical, interaction with study population, program coordination). A Master's degree may substitute for two years of related experience.

Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.

Organization

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Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.Duke Campus

As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.

Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.

Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.

Mission Statement

Duke Science"James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'

“To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.Duke Meeting

 “By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”

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