Senior Research Associate (7398U), School of Public Health - 20792 About Berkeley

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Application Review Date

The First Review Date for this job is: July 27, 2021

Departmental Overview

The School of Public Health (SPH) is a large and complex professional school at UC Berkeley, with a mission to improve population health, especially for the most vulnerable, through interdisciplinary collaborations, preeminent education, and transformational research.

The School is comprised of six academic divisions and 30 research centers and programs, with over 200 faculty, 120 academic/research staff, 155 management/professional/ administrative staff, and 285 student researchers/instructors/workers. The School offers a core MPH degree with nine areas of study, along with five MA and MS degree programs, a DrPH and five PhD degree programs, and five concurrent programs with other UC Berkeley schools and colleges; in addition, the School offers a joint degree with UC San Francisco. The School launched UC Berkeley's first on-line degree program in 2012 and is rapidly expanding the program to reach a wide range of domestic and international audiences through online degrees, certificate programs, and executive education. The School enrolls approximately 575 graduate students per year, as well as educating roughly 440 undergraduate students through an upper-division public health major. The School's more than 13,000 graduates can be found working throughout the world, in both the public and private sectors.

Learn more at http://sph.berkeley.edu/

This position will support the management and operations of the Transplantation Associated Virus Infections (TAVI) Forum, at the Forum for Collaborative Research (Forum). The Forum founded in 1997, is a public/private collaboration addressing cutting edge science and policy issues through a process of stakeholder engagement. The mission of the Forum is to facilitate collaborative research in drug development. The Forum has a unique and complex structure that includes stakeholder partners such as patients/patient advocates, academia, governmental agencies, industry, insurers, professional societies and other relevant entities. This position will be housed at the Forum offices located at the UCDC Campus in Washington, DC.

This position will be located on the UCDC campus in Washington, DC.

Responsibilities

• Independently designs, writes up workplan, implements symposia, reports, projects working groups, and undertakes follow up evaluations for the TAVI Forum activities. Independent ability to interact with collaborators for all aspects of their participation including logistics, substantive contributions, follow up action items and analysis of successes and areas for improvement in subsequent meetings.
• Works largely independently of senior staff, while exercising independent judgment to identify activities requiring cooperating and collaborating with peer colleagues, the Forum's Director, and Deputy Director, to undertake research, direct and review intern research projects and related activities, prepare and distribute background materials, prepare drafts for discussion with external and internal collaborators and prepares final products for distribution.
• Oversees and executes writing, in collaboration with internal and external colleagues, publications, abstracts, or meeting summaries based on content of expert roundtables, individual projects and scientific symposia
• Identifies necessary background materials for symposia, expert meetings, and collaborative meetings with scientists, regulators, industry representatives, patient and community advocates and other Forum collaborators. Independently collects and distributes such materials and supervises interns and junior staff in the collection and preparation for distribution of such materials.
• Manages and assists with grant applications or funding opportunities after reviewing the grant or funding document..
• Works closely with administrative staff, program peers, the Forum's Director, and Deputy Director to assure progress on overall Forum work-plan. Independently identifies areas of work-plan that are not being met and proposes changes to plan or implementation and assumes responsibility for execution of changes.
• Identifies problems and proposes solutions to problems and, either or both presents solution for discussion and decision by collaborative teams or Forum leadership, or independently implements solutions without additional supervision.
• Works with the Forum's Director and external expert research collaborators in analysis of scientific data or clinical information
• Researches and drafts complex proposals, reports, briefings, executive summaries, speeches
• Establishes and maintains contacts internally and with external constituents for the collection and exchange of data.

Required Qualifications

• The ability to learn quickly and expand knowledge of project disease areas is essential.
• Strong project management skills are essential.
• Knowledge of common computer application programs including proficiency with Excel.
• Analytical/problem-solving skills.
• Very experienced and able to draft, revise, and produce polished PowerPoint presentations.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to communicate (both orally and in writing) effectively with all levels of staff and a broad range of external national and international collaborators, including community and patient advocates, scientific experts from academia, industry and regulatory agencies.
• Strong skills in analyzing and synthesizing scientific literature for preparing sound and relevant proposals, reports, policy papers and academic journal articles.
• Ability to multi-task with demanding timeframes.
• Ability to use discretion and maintain all confidentiality.
• Ability to take initiative and solve problems independently while understanding when to seek guidance from manager or others.
• Ability to independently identify or research and find tools, procedures and precedents to improve effectiveness of the unit and our research / policy / analysis team.
• Works effectively, both independently and in collaboration with other Forum project peers and program director, as team member with senior internal and external scientists, public health officials, industry representatives, physicians and administrative personnel.
• Independently identifies, explains, coordinates, and manages work assignments of junior staff and interns.
• Very strong writing and oral communications skills. Communicates clearly and effectively with scientists and physicians, government officials and public health/patient advocates. Ability to present at Forum meetings or conferences is highly desirable.
• Independently and in coordination with program collaborators, peer program staff, Forum Director, and Deputy Director able to conduct scientific research and prepare summaries, meeting minutes, draft scientific abstracts and draft and final papers for publication in peer reviewed journals.
• Able to work with CRM software, including Salesforce, email distribution platforms and other related programs.

Education/Training:

• Master's degree in public health or other life sciences and/or equivalent experience/training.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with transplantation associated virus infections including Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Adenovirus, BK Virus, and HHV-6 and/or solid-organ and stem-cell transplantation is preferred.

Salary & Benefits

This is an exempt, monthly paid position. Annual salary is commensurate with experience within the range of $74,000.00 - $84,000.00.

For information on the comprehensive benefits package offered by the University visit:

https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/compensation-and-benefits/index.html

How to Apply

Please submit your cover letter and resume as a single attachment when applying.

Other Information

This is a two-year, full-time, 40-hours per week, Contract position.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. For more information about your rights as an applicant see:

https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf
For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see:
http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct



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