Laboratory Manager - Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Immuno-Oncology

Job Duties

• Act as the primary liaison for lab communications and collaborate with Dr. Luznik to effectively manage short-term and long-term laboratory requirements.
• Writing/renewing regulatory protocols (IACUC, IBC, and IRB) and submitting amendments.
• Collaborating on HR duties like performance evaluations, promotions, raises, and employee relations, while ensuring lab members are trained and follow health, lab safety, and animal care regulations, both institutionally and federally.
• Aid in editing grants, manuscripts, proposals, presentations, and other documents, ensuring deadlines for grant application submissions and progress reports are met.
• Upkeep of lab reagents, their databases, and handling requests, as well as the maintenance of equipment, infrastructure, and space allocation.
• Initiate and manage orders, track supplies and expenditures on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, and liaise with vendors while maintaining attention to the sources and uses of grant funds for these needs.
• Onboard new staff, ensure training, comply with institutional, State, and Federal guidelines.
• Handle financial activities such as monitoring budgets and communicating with Dr. Luznik about spending levels and spending patterns.
• Train research assistants' operations tasks and support lab team members with various research/experiment-related tasks.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a Basic Science or related field.
• Four years of related experience may substitute for degree requirement.
• Five years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous research experience in immunology or molecular biology.
• Previous experience training other people on various protocols.
• Previous experience with mouse research or human specimens is preferred.
• Sense of self-motivation, honesty, trustworthiness, collaboration skills, and a passion for efficiency, operational excellence, and process improvement.
• Thorough understanding of safety regulations and laboratory practices for biology research; demonstrated ability to effectively educate others on these practices.
• Exceptional problem-solving, adaptability, attention to detail, and strong organizational, communication, interpersonal, and teamwork abilities.
• Knowledge of computers and MS Office software.