Project Coordinator II, Psychiatric Research & Human Genetics

Responsibilities

• Project coordination of large-scale multi-site initiatives focusing on schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other neuropsychiatric conditions.
• Aids the project management team and scientific leads with the management of active research projects.
• Ensures appropriate communication with all project stakeholders on timelines, status, deadlines, data requirements, logistics, and other project-related issues.
• Aids in submitting IRB documentation, material transfer agreements, data access agreements, and other required documentation.
• Facilitates research lab and project meetings to coordinate agendas, document minutes, distribute, and follow up on project-related action items.
• Arranges the collection of participant information and the shipment of sample kits.
• Establishes close relationships with key collaborators and platform staff to enhance knowledge flow and data distribution.
• Manages project-specific budgets to ensure expenditures and projections are on target.
• Generates quotes or purchase orders to initiate platform activities and projects.
• Tracks the receipt, processing, and storage of biological samples.
• Works with the project lead and team members to ensure quality data generation and management, to ensure that data is secure and accessible for decision-making.
• Affords assistance with data processing and data transfer, internally to analysts and externally to collaborators and data sharing repositories (ie, NIMH Data Archive or similar).
• Affords assistance in drafting, editing, and submitting protocols, reports, letters, lecture presentations, email communications, and other written materials as needed.
• Might afford assistance with project meeting planning and other administrative tasks as required.

Requirements

• An undergraduate degree in biology (related field genetics/genomics) is required.
• BS with 3+ years of related experience – with at least 1+ year of experience coordinating projects.
• Excellent project management skills with demonstrated ability to effectively work in a matrixed environment, keeping teams, projects, and deliverables on track and evaluating plans and methods, revising as appropriate.
• Must possess a demonstrated ability to interact with an interdisciplinary group for both professional staff and academic trainees, including project managers, data analysts, computer scientists, and lab biologists.
• Comfortable learning new software and technologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills essential.
• Highly organized, with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Experience in high-throughput genetic analysis technologies and data management is a plus.
• Experience communicating with lab personnel and protocol troubleshooting is a plus.
• Experience with Research Compliance is a plus.
• Experience with bioinformatics tools and public databases is a plus.
• Experience with command-line, basic scripting, and cloud utilities is a plus.

Pay

Pay Range: $70,000.00/yr - $94,000.00/yr