Research Technician - Layton

Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research.

Patient care: We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education: We prepare tomorrow`s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce.

Research: We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

We are seeking a motivated research tech to collect and analyze data on biomedical workforce education, training, and development as part of the UNC Academy of Educators Project: Kathleen Rao Scholarship Award - 'Validating productivity metrics to increase education research trainee outcomes evaluation efficiency Project.' The research tech will assist in data collection, analysis, and interpretation, and will participate in dissemination. The research tech will gain an understanding of biological and biomedical doctoral-level scientific training and research; an understanding of experimental design, methods, and the scientific method; and will gain experience with scientific writing. The selected individual will build on existing graphical/data visualization skills, statistical analysis skills, and/or data management skills. This experience will provide the research tech with experience combining scientific knowledge/methods with an educational research approach to assess training, programs, and professional development opportunities on PhD career outcomes and biomedical workforce development impacts. The research tech will have opportunities to present study findings at local and/or regional meetings/conferences as available (e.g., Departmental Seminars, UNC BioSTAR Directors' Meeting, UNC AOE Events) to help disseminate findings to the biomedical research community.

Demonstrated possession of the competencies necessary to perform the work.

Demonstrated possession of the competencies necessary to perform the work.

Demonstrated possession of the competencies necessary to perform the work.

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