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Research Program Coordinator

Vanderbilt University Careers
Lynchburg, TN Full Time
POSTED ON 2/13/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/13/2025

The position provides management of research projects and staff affiliated with the Logan Lab run by Dr. Jessica Logan. This role is not community facing and will work closely with internal stakeholders, technology and data management and coordination of faculty involvement. Experience in grant management and funding criteria is key and being highly organized is necessary for success.

About the Logan Lab

The Logan Lab studies the research methods that scientists use to show how children learn over time, with a particular focus on the academic skills of children with or at risk for learning disabilities. We are also focused on improving the data management, data sharing, and data quality practices of researchers in the education and developmental sciences. This position will coordinate an NIH-funded short course training program, however the position will coordinate across all lab projects.

Note that this is a full-time, exempt, grant funded position. Hybrid work schedule is a possibility.  Sponsorship and / or relocation assistance is NOT available for this role.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Coordination and facilitation of an annual five-day workshop held at Vanderbilt's Peabody College.
  • Responsible for creating and disseminating newsletters and social media posts, while maintaining an active and engaging social media presence.
  • Maintain and update listserv and contact with workshop participants.
  • Maintain and update SharePoint sites for the workshop and Lab website, ensuring information is organized, current, and easily accessible
  • Coordination of purchasing, travel, events, scheduling, and budget monitoring
  • Managing the application process for the annual workshop.
  • Coordination to ensure successful recruitment, admissions, and matriculation of trainees into the annual workshop.
  • Create and maintain smart goals related to funded project aims.
  • Establishing, scheduling, and facilitating meetings with program faculty and consultants.
  • Regularly evaluate the status of the project and its timeline, ensuring milestones are met and the project stays on track to achieve its goals.
  • Gathering and reporting data for periodic and annual reporting in line with NIH reporting requirements
  • Knowledge of sponsored projects budgets and capability of working across projects making budgeting decisions.
  • Recruit, interview, train, and supervise undergraduate and graduate student research assistants working on lab projects.
  • Manage and track consultant payments.
  • Manage lab correspondence.
  • Maintain relationship with sub-contract awardees.
  • Assist with other projects as they come up in the lab.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree required;  Masters degree, preferred
  • Prior experience managing education or psychology research projects preferred
  • Prior experience managing a team including staff and students preferred
  • Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively to accomplish assigned tasks and deliverables on time with minimal error and minimal supervision
  • Experience using REDCap, Microsoft Office suite of collaboration tools, including SharePoint and Teams
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Department Procurers and experience with Oracle preferred.
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