Research Project Manager - Carmichael Lab

Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit:

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research.
Patient care: We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
Education: We prepare tomorrow’s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce.
Research: We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

Position Summary:

The Project Manager for Carmichael Lab will manage research project development from beginning to end across a variety of Artificial Intelligence pursuits in healthcare. Reports directly to the Prof. Carmichael. Coordinate the development and implementation of many aspects of large AI studies. A particular emphasis is placed on studies involving Digital Pathology data and/or clinical notes. Responsibilities include overall project direction, supervision and direction of data collection and analysis, database management, grant support, presentation development, reporting and planning, and staff supervision. This position will collaborate with investigators across multiple departments, centers, and schools at UNC and elsewhere. Strong interpersonal skills and experience with interacting and working with diverse and/or vulnerable populations are essential to this position. The position requires substantial capacity to independently manage and coordinate research activities and staff across multiple projects. It also requires some programming background along with an inclination to learn and use other technologies such as large language models.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

Relevant post-Baccalaureate degree required (or foreign degree equivalent); for candidates demonstrating comparable independent research productivity, will accept a relevant Bachelor’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) and 3 or more years of relevant experience in substitution. May require terminal degree and licensure.

Required Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience:

Five years of project management experience within academic or research contexts.

Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience:

• Project management experience in biomedical research.
• Experience working with data and programming (e.g. Python).
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with and coordinate activities with medical, hospital and government institutions and/or advocacy groups.