Job Title: Lead MRI Technologist
PVN ID: RC-2408-006406
Category: Research
Location: CUNY-ADVANCED SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER

Job Description

General Description

The ASRC MRI Facility seeks a motivated and talented research technician to serve as the Lead MRI Technologist. Primary duties involve promoting a safe enviroment for all and coordinating with other technologists, researchers, and the MRI scanner schedule to ensure all scheduled scans are accommodated. 

Additional duties include:

RESEARCH COORDINATION

  • Coordinates between scheduling requests from users and MR tech staffing availability
  • Add visitors to security list
  • Request temporary parking for visitors as needed
  • Navigate participants to ASRC and MRI facilities.
  • Coordinates scheduling of service maintenance with vendors (e.g. Siemens for MRI)
  • Maintain up-to-date scheduling calendar (e.g. notification for when instrument down for repair, for PM, facility closure, or no technologist available)
  • Flag MRI safety contraindications prior to scans. Assist in safety verification (e.g. request subjects provide documentation from doctor/dentist regarding implants).

NEW USERS

  • Assist with onboarding
  • Schedule badge creation
  • Set up user accounts on stimulus, behavioral, and mock scanner computers
  • Add info to PI list spreadsheet
  • Create new Project and User accounts on Flywheel Database

PURCHASING

  • Recurrent purchases of consumables for regular operations
  • Submit RF payment requests (e.g. teleradiology)
  • Reconcile pcard purchases
  • Identify new items for purchase as needed

SCRUBS, SHEETS, AND BLANKETS

  • Maintain adequate inventory of scrubs, sheets, and blankets for subject use
  • Schedule laundry pick up and delivery
  • Restock as needed

PATIENT DATABASE

  • Backups to XHD and server
  • Update spreadsheet of backup data info
  • Periodic Deletion
  • User specific, custom data pushes

MRI SCANNER OPERATION

  • Checklist creation and completion for each study
  • Prepare ancillary equipment for scheduled experiments:
    • button boxes
    • physiological (BIOpak and Siemens) devices
    • RF coils
  • Post scan
    • Sterilize
    • Vacuum
    • Data backup
    • Upload incidental findings to teleradiologist
  • QC
    • Spherical phantom
    • Siemens QA

EEG QC

  • Perform EEG QC routinely on 6 EEG head caps
  • Update QC log and post in behavioral room in sight of users

RECORD KEEPING

  • Safety screening form
  • Study checklists
  • Purchases
  • QC logs

Additional duties as assigned.

Other Duties

Qualifications

ARRT certification for MRI or equivalent.

RFCUNY Benefits

RFCUNY Employee Benefits and Accruals

About the Research Foundation

The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.

RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Research Foundation of the City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Americans with Disabilities Act/E-Verify Employer. It is the policy of the Research Foundation of CUNY to provide equal employment opportunities free of discrimination based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic violence victim status, arrest record, criminal conviction history, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Key Features

Department
Status
Full Time
Annual Salary Range
$90,000.00 - $116,480.00
Closing Date
Oct 20, 2024 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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