What are the responsibilities and job description for the Research Manager - Surgery position at Mount Sinai Hospital?
Job Description
The Research Manager for the Department of Surgery oversees all administrative, personnel, regulatory, contractual, compliance, and financial aspects of the surgical clinical research activities for the Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai St. Luke's, and Mount Sinai West sites. This is a multi-faceted position, which requires strong competency with the following : personnel management, extramural grants, regulatory processes, clinical databases, research compliance, publication ethics, research budgets and finance. The Research Manager reports to the system-wide Associate Director for Research for the Department of Surgery.
This is a hybrid schedule and will vary week to week - three days onsite, 2 days remote.
Responsibilities
- Under the direction of the Associate Director for Research, oversee all administrative, personnel, regulatory, contractual, compliance, and financial aspects of the surgical clinical research activities (institutional, federal, foundation, and industry funded). Manage site-specific departmental research personnel; administrate all HR activities, including recruitment, orientation, onboarding, promotions, disciplinary action, and performance reviews.
- Collaborate and provide guidance to departmental clinical residents, fellows, and graduate students regarding current and prospective research activities.
- Manage all departmental research volunteers; oversee onboarding of new volunteers in collaboration with the Volunteer Office. Review and ensure compliance with institutional protocols for research volunteer activities.
- Meet with departmental faculty, to provide guidance and directive regarding all aspects of current and future research initiatives.
- Interface with study sponsors, funding agencies, institutional personnel, investigators, and research personnel to ensure full compliance and further development of research activities.
- In collaboration with the Associate Director for Research, administrate all aspects of site-specific departmental research audits (internal, sponsored, and federal); develop and execute corrective action plans, as applicable.
- Manage site specific research finances, including budget development, negotiation and projections, billing compliance, funding applications, ledger accounting and projections for future spending.
- Manage communication with the Grants and Contracts Office (GCO), Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), and Institutional Review Board (IRB) regarding site-specific research activities; manage issues, as they arise. Communicate with external IRB offices, as needed, for applicable sponsor studies.
- Review all regulatory paperwork for new research studies, studies requiring modification, renewal, or closure prior to IRB submission.
- Research and provide support in the development of grant proposals for departmental grants.
- Provide comprehensive support to principal investigators in researching and preparing all of components of governmental and externally funded grant applications for submission.
Qualifications
Non-Bargaining Unit, 862 - Surgery - ISM, Icahn School of Medicine
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Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked : No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology / Heart Surgery, Diabetes / Endocrinology, Gastroenterology / GI Surgery, Neurology / Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology / Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Children's Hospitals" ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's "The World's Best Smart Hospitals" ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
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