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Columbia University

Program Manager

Columbia University, New York, New York, us, 10261

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Job Type: Officer of Administration

Bargaining Unit:

Regular/Temporary: Regular

End Date if Temporary:

Hours Per Week: 35

Standard Work Schedule:

Building:

Salary Range: $69,300- $115,000

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the University's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

Position Summary

The Program Manager will lead the day-to-day management and oversee various research studies and operation activities within the PI's lab and the Center for Advancing Research execution, staff training, setting up Standard Operating Manuals, assisting in grant writing, preparation of publications, generating research progress reports, and participating in scientific projects including data analyses.

Responsibilities

Design and implement systems for standardized data analyses, results presentation, manuscript writing, and paper revision

Conduct and contribute to statistical analyses when needed

Manage data sharing and workload distribution within the lab and the Center

Plan and draft grant proposal and work with pre-award administrators to submit the grant

Draft progress report for NIH and foundations to ensure grant renewal

Prepare and submit IRB protocols for approvals of research studies

Work with grad students, postdoctoral researchers, and lab staff to advance research

Setting up Standard Operational Manuals for lab and Center procedure

Standardize the paper writing format in the lab

Standardize and streamline figure and PowerPoint presentation formats

Build and maintain inventories of research-related datasets

Meet regularly with graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, staff, and collaborating investigators

Re-format and edit research manuscripts to tailor to each journal style for submission

Hire, orient, train research staff or new postdoctoral researchers

Plan, develop, implement, and coordinate research projects

Liaising between PIs/project teams as needed to support collaborations

Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree and 4-5 years of related (analytic) experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required.

Preferred Qualifications

Master's Degree in statistics, applied mathematics, computer science, data science or other quantitative field.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

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