Associate Academic Research Scientist- School of Medicine, Infectious Diseases

About the Role

The Associate Academic Research Scientist performs a wide range of highly technical and complex research duties and has documented scientific achievements and increasing technical, management, leadership, and professional expertise necessary to advance basic and/or translational research programs.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrated knowledge of research and experimental platforms for analyzing, designing, and interpreting results.
• Investigates and recommends potential alternative approaches to improve the quality of results of basic and/or translational research.
• Demonstrates increased responsibility through management of teams and leadership of scientific projects by applying advanced knowledge, skills, and input necessary for protocol development, as well as facilitating some training aspects of other team members.
• Aids in writing IACUC, IRB, Biosafety, and other approval documents.
• Oversees quality assurance of research conducted by other team members.
• May assist in grant and other funding applications as necessary and appropriate, or with approval of the responsible faculty director, may have their own research projects and/or have full responsibilities for specific areas of instrumentation or methodology development and user support.
• With the approval of the responsible Emory faculty director, may serve as the principal investigator on funded (grant) proposals.
• Performs other responsibilities as required.

Requirements

• PhD and one year of professional-level experience in a technical or research lab, OR
• Master’s degree and three years of professional-level experience in a technical or research lab, OR
• Bachelor’s degree and five years of professional-level experience in a technical or research lab.
• Laboratory experience should be based on the area of assignment.
• Internship experience or experience prior to attaining the qualifying degree is not considered eligible work experience for this job classification.

Schedule

This role will be granted the opportunity to work from home regularly but must be able to commute to an Emory University location as needed and at times, on short notice. Emory reserves the right to change this status with notice to the employee.