CTSC:ImageInformationAndAnalysisLiaisonJobDescription

Potential job description and qualities of the Image Information and Acquisition Liason

The newly formed Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) is seeking the founding member of the CTSC Research Navigators team. The goal of the CTSC is to facilitate clinical and translational research throughout Harvard and at the associated Academic Healthcare Centers (MGH, BIDMC, Children’s Hospital, BWH, DFCI and others) by encouraging connections, providing seed funding for collaborative experiments, and helping trainees and faculty gain access to resources. As a Research Navigator, you will become broadly knowledgeable in a wide range of research topics and will become familiar with the resources available for research in the Boston area. You will be the first point of contact for researchers who need help from the CTSC, and you will guide them in determining whether CTSC grant programs or CTSC lab resources would be helpful to them. You will manage a portfolio of awarded grants, tracking the progress of the awardees and advising them on additional resources or help that the CTSC can offer. In the course of your daily activities, you will routinely make connections between researchers with complementary skills who are unaware of each others’ work. Your goal will be to encourage and support collaborations of all kinds in the area of clinical and translational research. This position will draw on many of the same organizational skills that would be required to be a successful project manager at a large pharmaceutical company, and will require similar intellectual breadth to that required for an editor at a major journal.

Required skills: PhD or equivalent in biology-related subject. Broad interest in science, especially fields related to medicine. Exceptional communication skills, especially verbal. Demonstrated ability to juggle many competing priorities with grace and good humor. Strong sense of responsibility.