Research Manager

Description

The position is a one-year appointment based at the University of Houston College of Medicine and is renewable depending on performance and funding. The Humana Institute at the Tilman J Fertitta Family College of Medicine, University of Houston (UH) seeks a qualified candidate to serve as a research manager to work on population health-related projects. Sample projects include a) leveraging healthcare costs and utilization data to understand and address gaps in care; b) increasing adoption and sustained use of telehealth, remote monitoring and other digital technologies, and c) mixed methods studies that triangulate the impact of the lived environment on physical and mental health outcomes.

Provides expertise in support of research projects

• Supports research projects in engineering, biology, mathematics, statistics, computer science, physics, etc.
• Prepares and edits research papers, proposals, and reports.
• Performs advanced testing procedures and analyses of data.
• May prepare samples for testing.
• Performs advanced testing procedures and performs analyses of data.
• Makes use of a variety of specialized equipment typical within area of specialization.
• Contributes to grant proposal development.
• Ensures experiments are performed according to specifications.
• Makes recommendations to changes in procedure, processes, or experimental design.
• Possesses, understands, and applies an advanced knowledge of a professional natural, physical, or engineering field or multiple fields of specialization to develop unique and new approaches or ideas.
• Understands and uses research tools and equipment and utilizes effective management techniques.
• Plans and conducts research in one or more large and complex areas of specialization.
• Reviews and manages project progress.
• Liaises with other areas of specialization to obtain support or technical expertise for projects.
• Defines procedures or processes to be used in the experimental processes.
• May personally conduct important and/or technically complex investigations.
• Responsible for administrative activities, including the supervision and evaluation of personnel.
• Operates with wide latitude for unreviewed action subject only to institutional policies and guidelines and ethical considerations.
• Reviews and evaluates the effectiveness of personnel.

Education

• Requires a minimum of a PhD.

Experience

• Requires a minimum of five (5) years of directly job-related experience.

Qualifications

• Requires an advanced knowledge of a professional natural, physical, or engineering field or multiple fields of specialization.
• Must possess an understanding and ability to apply advanced knowledge in the field.
• Must be able to use a variety of specialized equipment typical within area of specialization.
• Must be capable of preparing samples for testing and performing advanced testing procedures and analyses of data.
• Must be able to make recommendations to changes in procedure, processes, or experimental design.
• Must be able to define procedures or processes to be used in the experimental processes.
• Must be able to personally conduct important and/or technically complex investigations.
• Must be able to operate with wide latitude for unreviewed action subject only to institutional policies and guidelines and ethical considerations.
• Must be able to review and evaluate the effectiveness of personnel.

Skills

• Expertise in support of research projects in engineering, biology, mathematics, statistics, computer science, physics, etc.
• Ability to prepare and edit research papers, proposals, and reports.
• Ability to perform advanced testing procedures and analyses of data.
• Ability to prepare samples for testing.
• Ability to perform advanced testing procedures and perform analyses of data.
• Ability to use a variety of specialized equipment typical within area of specialization.
• Ability to contribute to grant proposal development.
• Ability to ensure experiments are performed according to specifications.
• Ability to make recommendations to changes in procedure, processes, or experimental design.
• Advanced knowledge of a professional natural, physical, or engineering field or multiple fields of specialization.
• Understanding and use of research tools and equipment.
• Effective management techniques.
• Planning and conducting research in one or more large and complex areas of specialization.
• Reviewing and managing project progress.
• Liaising with other areas of specialization to obtain support or technical expertise for projects.
• Defining procedures or processes to be used in the experimental processes.
• Personal conduct of important and/or technically complex investigations.
• Administrative activities, including the supervision and evaluation of personnel.
• Operating with wide latitude for unreviewed action subject only to institutional policies and guidelines and ethical considerations.
• Reviewing and evaluating the effectiveness of personnel.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$90,000

Schedule

Not specified.

Benefits

Not specified.

Application Instructions

Not specified.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The University of Houston System and its universities are Equal Opportunity Institutions.

Criminal History Check

All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check.