Tufts University

Tufts University

Metabolic Research and Dietary Assessment Unit Manager

Boston, Massachusetts

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About the role

  • The mission of the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University (HNRCA) is to promote healthy aging through nutrition science to empower people seeking to enjoy long, active, and independent lives.
  • HNRCA investigators examine how nutrition and physical activity play a role in the prevention of the major chronic degenerative conditions and diseases associated with aging.
  • The Metabolic Research and Dietary Assessment Unit (MRUDAU) is a 15,000-square-foot HNRCA scientific core that provides the infrastructure to carry out human clinical research studies.

Responsibilities

  • The Metabolic Research and Dietary Assessment Unit Manager leads a diverse team of experts in nursing, dietetics, dietary data collection and assessment, and human study research management that supports the clinical research of HNRCA principal investigators (PIs).
  • Assists PIs in developing core unit budgets sufficient to cover proposed core unit research activities, as all as provides operational, regulatory, budgetary, and content-based leadership of the unit, working closely with PIs, study teams, other HNRCA core unit managers, and MRUDAU staff on many aspects of study design, implementation, execution, and close-out.
  • Study Management: Work with PIs, individual study teams, other core unit managers, and study MDs to design human nutrition research studies
  • Resource Management: Leads and manages a diverse team of 14-16 staff, including four direct reports, who are subject-area experts in the collaborative execution of human studies.
  • The unit supports and facilitates study participant recruitment and retention, as well as all clinical aspects of data and biological sample collection from volunteer human subjects.

Requirements

  • Knowledge and experience typically acquired by:
  • Master's-level degree or equivalent in human subjects research, nutrition, biomedical science, nursing, data analysis, business, or another related field
  • 10 or more years' experience with human research studies, including 3 or more years' experience with fiscal responsibility for complex human studies in a grant-funded environment
  • Significant experience with clinical study design
  • Experience with electronic data capture systems (e.g., REDCap)
  • Experience successfully leading a team and directly managing staff

Nice to have

  • PhD, ScD, MD, or equivalent terminal degree in nutrition, biomedical science, nursing, data analysis, business, or another related field[
  • 3 or more years' experience managing a clinical research facility or team
  • Minimum $98,400.00, Midpoint $123,000.00, Maximum $147,600.00
  • generally, new hires can expect pay between the minimum and midpoint of the range.

Compensation

  • Minimum $98,400.00, Midpoint $123,000.00, Maximum $147,600.00
  • Salary is based on related experience, expertise, and internal equity; generally, new hires can expect pay between the minimum and midpoint of the range.

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