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) 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
Biochemistry
Full Time
$80,000.00 - $90,000.00
Aug 19, 2024 (Or Until Filled)