Careers Job Description
General Description
The Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the City University of New York (CUNY) is a 200,000 square-foot facility in upper Manhattan designed to promote collaboration among scientists in five areas of global research and innovation: nanoscience, photonics, structural biology, neuroscience, and environmental sciences.
The ASRC seeks a part-time MRI Technologist whose main responsibility will be weekday afternoon/evening and weekend neuroimaging. Average weekly schedule would be Monday, Friday 3-7pm and Saturday, Sunday for 4-8 hour shifts, with flexibility on exact days/durations from week to week.
Specific major duties and responsibilities include:
- Operate Siemens Prisma 3T MR system dedicated to research.
- Maintain an MRI safe environment for co-workers, research subjects, and personnel at all times. Screen all people who access MRI area.
- Select and operate equipment as directed.
- Report any equipment malfunctions, necessary adjustments, or repairs.
- Restore/provide access to data for ASRC researchers and collaborators.
- Maintain daily logs of research examinations.
- Assists in coordinating MRI scanner schedule
- Comply with policies and procedures protecting research subjects’ rights for informed consent and the handling of confidential information as defined by the ASRC MRI Facility’s rules and regulations.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Other Duties
Opportunity to learn neuroimaging research techniques is possible, including:
-EEG, tDCS, TMS, eye-tracking, etc.
Qualifications
A preferred candidate should have:
- ARRT certification
- Experience in imaging children and general work experience involving children
- Knowledge of NMR physics
- Computer experience with Windows OS and Microsoft Office
- Familiarity with Siemens MRI operating console
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Experience in research/university setting a plus
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout 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
Key Features
Neuroscience Initiative MRI Facility
Part Time
$60.00-$65.00
0.00-19.00
Jan 12, 2025 (Or Until Filled)