Job Description
Position Summary:
The Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies (Rice360), a multi-disciplinary institute at Rice University, is a leader in global health technology education, research, and implementation, with a distinctive focus on experiential and problem-based learning. Rice360 develops highly effective, low-cost healthcare solutions addressing critical healthcare needs in underserved communities and educates a cadre of future leaders to continue to innovate and implement solutions. Rice360 works closely with partners in underserved communities throughout the world, including low- and middle-income countries and the United States. The Rice360 Global Health Fellows (GHF) program is a post-baccalaureate fellowship for exceptional early-career engineers with an interest in medical technology for low-resource settings. Through the GHF program, fellows develop, refine and evaluate affordable, high performance clinical technologies for sustainable use in low-resource settings. Rice360 is a lead member of the Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies (NEST360) alliance. The NEST360 alliance is working with African governments to transform hospital newborn care by installing a bundle of rugged devices, educating clinicians to use devices and biomedical engineers to maintain them, and implementing locally-owned data dashboards to drive uptake and quality.
The Rice360 director of technology development, in partnership with Rice360 faculty co-directors Dr. Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Dr. Maria Oden, will develop and execute the Rice360 technology portfolio strategy and manage the Rice360 technology development team, including the GHF cohort. The director of technology development will provide strategic R&D leadership to Rice360 technology development efforts, including needs finding, design, prototyping, benchtop testing, clinical evaluation, transition to manufacture, regulatory approval, commercial launch and reporting, including those for the NEST360 project. S/he will provide research administration oversight, including managing research budgets, resource utilization, and regulatory and ethical standards compliance. S/he will manage the day-to-day activities of the Rice360 GHF cohort, including recruitment and training, design project guidance and mentorship, and facilitate engagement and communication with Rice360 leadership and external collaborators/clinicians.
The ideal candidate has at least eight years’ experience in project management related to medical technology research & development, including design, prototyping, clinical evaluation, and translation to production. S/he has significant experience with bioengineering/biomedical innovation for low-resource settings. S/he has strong quantitative and analytical abilities, as well as excellent written and oral communication and demonstrated strong coordination, team leadership, and mentorship skills. S/he has experience working on grant-funded programs/projects within a research university environment. They also have experience working in a multi-cultural environment, a demonstrated sensitivity to low resource settings, and are willing and able to travel periodically to sub-Saharan Africa.
This position is M-F 8am–5pm, with occasional early morning, evening, or weekend work required to accommodate time zone differences for important meetings with teams in the US, UK, and across sub-Saharan Africa).
Hiring Range: $110,400 - $140,800/year, contingent upon qualifications and experience
This position is partially funded by a grant, soft and/or restricted funds. Continued employment is contingent on the renewal of funding.
Minimum Requirements
Position Summary:
The Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies (Rice360), a multi-disciplinary institute at Rice University, is a leader in global health technology education, research, and implementation, with a distinctive focus on experiential and problem-based learning. Rice360 develops highly effective, low-cost healthcare solutions addressing critical healthcare needs in underserved communities and educates a cadre of future leaders to continue to innovate and implement solutions. Rice360 works closely with partners in underserved communities throughout the world, including low- and middle-income countries and the United States. The Rice360 Global Health Fellows (GHF) program is a post-baccalaureate fellowship for exceptional early-career engineers with an interest in medical technology for low-resource settings. Through the GHF program, fellows develop, refine and evaluate affordable, high performance clinical technologies for sustainable use in low-resource settings. Rice360 is a lead member of the Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies (NEST360) alliance. The NEST360 alliance is working with African governments to transform hospital newborn care by installing a bundle of rugged devices, educating clinicians to use devices and biomedical engineers to maintain them, and implementing locally-owned data dashboards to drive uptake and quality.
The Rice360 director of technology development, in partnership with Rice360 faculty co-directors Dr. Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Dr. Maria Oden, will develop and execute the Rice360 technology portfolio strategy and manage the Rice360 technology development team, including the GHF cohort. The director of technology development will provide strategic R&D leadership to Rice360 technology development efforts, including needs finding, design, prototyping, benchtop testing, clinical evaluation, transition to manufacture, regulatory approval, commercial launch and reporting, including those for the NEST360 project. S/he will provide research administration oversight, including managing research budgets, resource utilization, and regulatory and ethical standards compliance. S/he will manage the day-to-day activities of the Rice360 GHF cohort, including recruitment and training, design project guidance and mentorship, and facilitate engagement and communication with Rice360 leadership and external collaborators/clinicians.
The ideal candidate has at least eight years’ experience in project management related to medical technology research & development, including design, prototyping, clinical evaluation, and translation to production. S/he has significant experience with bioengineering/biomedical innovation for low-resource settings. S/he has strong quantitative and analytical abilities, as well as excellent written and oral communication and demonstrated strong coordination, team leadership, and mentorship skills. S/he has experience working on grant-funded programs/projects within a research university environment. They also have experience working in a multi-cultural environment, a demonstrated sensitivity to low resource settings, and are willing and able to travel periodically to sub-Saharan Africa.
This position is M-F 8am–5pm, with occasional early morning, evening, or weekend work required to accommodate time zone differences for important meetings with teams in the US, UK, and across sub-Saharan Africa).
Hiring Range: $110,400 - $140,800/year, contingent upon qualifications and experience
This position is partially funded by a grant, soft and/or restricted funds. Continued employment is contingent on the renewal of funding.
Minimum Requirements
- PhD or other Doctoral Degree in engineering
- Four (4) years of postdoctoral related experience in project
management, technology development and / or other closely related
experience.
- In lieu of the experience requirement, additional related education, above and beyond what is required, on an equivalent year-for-year basis may be substituted