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Summary

Are you interested in being a part of the Comparative Medicine Core Leadership Team at Moffitt Cancer Center? This is a fantastic opportunity to help build a new team for the existing facility and the new state-of-the-art facility from the ground up. The new Speros campus will have a 30,000 sqft Comparative Medicine state-of-the-art Facility, which will complement MCC's existing, fully accredited 28,000 sqft facility.
Position Highlights :
Moffitt is building a new Comparative Medicine Core (CMC) and is seeking a Senior Education and Quality Assurance (QA) Specialist of Technical Services to collaborate with Husbandry Operations leadership to develop training modules for husbandry, veterinary, and research staff. Provides basic rodent training, and technical services (including breeding colony management common injections, and dosing techniques) for staff at all levels. The Senior Education and QA Specialist of Technical Services will perform various quality assurance assessments of the comparative medicine core program including audits of training and process and post-approval monitoring as well as developing educational and institutional programs relating to the responsibilities of the research community.
The Ideal Candidate:

• Must have experience in laboratory animal care, facilities operations/management, biohazard containment, and data management.
• Must have experience creating and assisting in developing plans to enhance the learning and performance of the staff.
• Experience in quality assurance (QA) /regulatory experience including oversight of audits is required.
• Knowledge of adult learning principles is preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Creates and provides formal and informal training and consultation, including orientations, training, and development and implementation of standard operating processes and procedures related to the use of animals.
• Collaborates with Husbandry Operations leadership to develop "mouse school" for onboarding and training husbandry staff and to develop a training module for husbandry, veterinary, and research staff to manage breeding colonies including tissue collection for genotyping.
• Develop and revise lesson plans for common injections, oral dosing, and blood collection techniques in mice. Schedule, coordinate, and conduct hands-on training classes for injections, oral dosing, and blood collection techniques for investigative staff.
• Develop educational and instructional programs relating to the responsibilities of the research community for the appropriate care and use of laboratory animals. Specifically training animal care and use committee (ACUC) and post-approval monitoring (PAM) program.
• Conducts regular audits and assessments of Comparative Medicine Staff and Research staff activities to ensure proper quality control and identify the areas needing improvement and potential compliance risks.
• Maintains tracking and reporting on observed quality and compliance trends within the animal care & welfare programs, including oversight of the development and maintenance of work instructions/standard operating procedures and proposed changes to current practices and policies as needed.
• Other duties include backing up other Education and Quality Assurance Specialist.

Credentials and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in animal science, biological science, educational science, or related field is required along with six (6) years of rodent technical services experience in animal-based research.
  
  • Master's degree in animal science, biological science, educational science, or related field is preferred.

Salary and Benefits Offered to Moffitt Team Members:

• Market competitive salary
• Eligible for an annual Team Member Incentive
• Eligible for an annual Team Member Merit
• Relocation Assistance
• Inclusive Benefits package - Health, Financial, & Lifestyle coverage

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Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until positions are filled. Please be sure to attach your CV and cover letter.
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