Careers Job Description
General Description
The Senior Associate Creative Technologist position will supervise a project to design, develop, and disseminate an online venom knowledge base, to build a cutting-edge online repository that collates venom data across taxa and integrates omic, morphological, and functional datasets. This is a highly multidisciplinary project that requires strong communication skills to connect researchers of different backgrounds, including evolutionary biologists, chemists, neuroscientists, engineers, aquarists, artists and vendors.
Responsibilities include, but not limited to collecting, coordinating venom datasets from sample taxa across tree of life, processing and analyzing data, interfacing with venom labs internationally to build an online VenomBase repository and other novel tools for advancing comparative analyses of venom data. Part of the responsibilities will be the supervision of graduate students, undergraduate students and research assistants. A distinct combination of skills in computer science, design, prototyping, ideation, design software, analytical data analysis, fabrication, and project management will make the ideal candidate for this position.
Other Duties
- Coordinate projects, make detailed plans to accomplish goals, and direct the integration of technical activities within the discussed timeframe.
- Present and explain proposals, product overview, data flow, user feedback documentations, reports findings to PI, internal and external teams, and collaborators
- Recruit vendors, assign, direct, and evaluate their work, and oversee the development and maintenance of staff competence.
- Analyze technology, resource needs and demand, to plan and assess the feasibility of projects and identifies risks for the timeline and budget.
- Confer with Dr. Holford and other involved team members to produce the project based on the assigned research plans.
- Review and recommend or approve vendors and cost estimates within the budget.
Qualifications
- A Master of Science is required
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).
RFCUNY stands between CUNY’s principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
Biochemistry
Full Time
$80,000.00 - $90,000.00
Aug 19, 2024 (Or Until Filled)