ATSU - Fellow Postdoctoral Research

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ATSU - Fellow Postdoctoral Research

Description
A.T. Still University is seeking an exempt Fellow Postdoctoral Research on the Mesa, Arizona campus.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for day-to-day coordination of clinical outcomes investigations organized and relevant to post-doctoral training.
• Identify, develop and implement a research study to advance post-doctoral training and expertise.
• Monitor recruitment and retention of research subjects.
• Provide and support research data handling functions such as collection, processing, quality monitoring, and entry.
• Support ongoing activities of the ATSU SalivaEpi Biobank by performing patient recruitment and enrollment.
• Activities could extend to recruit participants, obtain participant consent, and perform saliva sample collection, sample storage, and data entry.
• Schedule research protocol activities.
• Coordinate start-up activities for clinical research protocols.
• Ensure that the goals, objectives, and activities related to research projects are achieved and evaluated in a timely manner; moreover, organize/facilitate appropriate planning, development, and implementation of assigned scholarly activities.
• Collaborate with community stakeholders to establish partnerships and engage the community in research initiatives, promoting community-based research principles.
• Assist in research dissemination including oral presentations, posters and manuscript preparation.
• Assist with management of fiscal and physical research resources.
• Assist researchers in the preparation and submission of progress reports and financial status reports.
• Monitor research grant programmatic activities for timeliness and appropriateness/accuracy.
• Assist in the production of activity reports from current clinical research projects.
• Assist in research grant proposal development.
• Support research protocol development.
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements
Education & Experience:

• Demonstrated expertise in technical mentorship, specifically guiding students through the full research lifecycle by breaking down complex statistical modeling, overseeing reproducible programming workflows, and teaching systematic research methods.
• PhD/doctorate in an oral health or other health professions field (e.g., DPH, PhD in Epidemiology, etc.)
• Be computer literate.
• Familiar with program evaluation techniques and budget management.
• Interact well with patients, including those with special needs, and their caregivers.
• Experience with laboratory procedures is preferred, particularly molecular biology techniques and workflows related to biospecimen processing, DNA extraction, genotyping, and other laboratory methods commonly used in genetic and genomic research.
• Team player who can also work independently
• Assertive, possess a positive and proactive approach, work's well under pressure, and highly professional.
• Possess the ability to work well with persons of diverse educational socioeconomic, and ethnic backgrounds.
• Outgoing and personable; detail oriented

ATSU offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverages, among more. If eligible, employee-elected benefits would begin the first of the month following hire date. For more information, please visit: atsu.edu/employment/benefits.