Overview
New Jersey’s academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University–New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and five centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.
Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.
Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state—at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, including Piscataway; and at locations in Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Stratford, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Newark’s University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.
Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.
Posting Summary
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Research Teaching Specialist IV in the department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
The Research Teaching Specialist IV will oversee a variety of complex activities involved in the collection, management, compilation, documentation and analysis of clinical and translational research data. Under the Primary Investigators’ direction, will conduct and oversee aspects of the research projects by planning, monitoring and controlling the process involved. He\She may also perform a variety of tasks including grant applications, protocol implementation, data analysis, teaching student researchers, and monitoring and summarizing progress of the protocols.
Among the key duties of this position are the following:
- General management and organization of the laboratory; upholds all regulations, policies, and procedures relating to health,
safety and security matters in the laboratory and on campus. Conducts in-laboratory safety training for new students and trainees.
- Maintains the laboratory data management plan.
- Orders and stocks laboratory supplies and equipment.
- Care and maintenance of laboratory instruments and equipment.
- Completes routine or semi-routine work within established work parameters for the unit.
- Makes decisions or choices following standard practices and procedures.
- Maintains all animal care, health and biosafety (REHS), Institutional Review Board (IRB), Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) protocolsin good standing.
- Maintains healthy colonies of transgenic mice for experiments using appropriate breeding strategies, generate and maintain healthy colonies of transgenic mice for experiments using appropriate breeding strategies.