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Req #: 237291

Department: PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Posting Date: 08/12/2024

Closing Info: Open Until Filled

Salary: $8,335 - $10,000 per month

Shift: First Shift

Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-staff-20230701_a11y.pdf )

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty. All of which has allowed the UW to be nationally recognized as a “Great College to Work For” for four consecutive years.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences within the UW School of Medicine is the third largest clinical department within the School of Medicine with 330 full-time faculty members, 460 courtesy faculty members, and over 350 staff. Department faculty provide clinical services in 5 hospitals, 14 primary care locations, and several outpatient sites in addition to telepsychiatry consultations to more than 150 clinics in Washington and beyond. As the only academic psychiatry department serving the five state WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho), the Department’s highly competitive residency training program is largely responsible for developing the mental health workforce in the Pacific Northwest. The Department’s robust research portfolio totals $67 million in grants and contracts per year for projects ranging from clinical neurosciences to treatment development to health policy and population health. The Department is recognized as an international leader in developing, testing, and implementing Collaborative Care, an integrated care model increasingly seen as a solution for population-based mental health care. Other areas of excellence include Addictions, Autism, High Risk Youth, Neurosciences, and Trauma, and the Department is developing innovative new programs in Technology and Mental Health, Global Mental Health, Maternal and Child Mental Health, and Targeted Intervention Development. Psychiatry is the third largest department in the School of Medicine and the largest non-divisioned department. The overall annual operations funding from all sources is over $130 million.

The Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences within the UW School of Medicine currently has an outstanding opportunity for a Research Scientist/Engineer 4. POSITION PURPOSE

The University of Washington’s ALACRITY Center’s (UWAC) Research Scientist 4 position co-leads, alongside faculty leadership, the scientific activity and administrative components of UWAC, a NIMH funded multidisciplinary center intended to serve as an incubator for innovate research and transdisciplinary collaborations (www.uwalacrity.org). The position collaborates with UWAC faculty leadership to execute the center’s strategic research objectives and facilitates day-to-day operations of the center, including support for the center’s investigators and multidisciplinary staff. The position collaborates with UWAC faculty leadership to execute the center’s strategic research objectives and facilitates day-to-day operations of the center, including support for the center’s investigators and multidisciplinary staff. This position provides methodological expertise in human centered design, implementation sciences, and both quantitative and qualitative data analysis; participates in developing research designs, data collection methods, and strategies for data management; independently coordinates administrative elements of the Center, including developing, monitoring, and work with center directors to track and manage center and project budgets, project timelines, and local, state, and national reporting requirements; leads and contribute to the analysis, interpretation and reporting of study findings in diverse settings/formats, including posters, presentations and publications; Contribute to the center’s dissemination of methods, results, and activities at the intersection of psychiatry, behavioral sciences, human centered design, and implementation science; and fosters and maintains relationships with a wide range of collaborators, colleagues, funders, faculty, staff, community partners and research subjects.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Provides methodological expertise in human centered design, implementation science, and both quantitative and qualitative data analysis (25%): • Leads UWAC’s Methods Core in collaboration with faculty leadership to provide expertise to all Center projects (including R01, R34, and R03 studies). • Designs and implements methodological approaches for collecting and analyzing data, including quantitative and qualitative data from various project phases. • Leads and coordinates analytic approaches with an emphasis on qualitative data analysis across multiple projects. • Support all team members, including research coordinators, faculty members, and post-doctoral scholars, in the implementation of human-centered design methods, including, if needed, supporting activities such as co-design workshops, think aloud sessions, and other participant facing activities.

Participate in developing research designs, data collection methods, and strategies for data management (10%): • Engage with project teams to ensure research methods and data collection activities align with Center protocols and priorities. • Assist project teams in modifying protocols as needed ensuring changes are documented and incorporated into overall Center analyses.

Overseeing and directing all aspects of UWAC’s research projects (6-10 active studies) (15%): • Lead protocol development and all regulatory aspects of protocol management. • Oversees all phases of studies to ensure work is accomplished within specified time frame as determined by this position in order to meet funding requirements. • Design methods for screening, recruiting, consenting, and enrolling participants. • Hire, supervise, train, and monitor staff assisting with recruitment and enrollment. • Develop recruitment timelines, monitor recruitment progress, and address barriers to successful recruitment when they arise through collaboration with supervised staff. • Ensure appropriate database design and management for collecting, storing, and analyzing clinical trial data; Design methods for assessing primary outcomes. • Propose additional analyses and design approaches to answer secondary studies and questions. • Design and conduct complex qualitative analyses of clinical trial data and collaborate with data manager and other center faculty and staff to design and conduct complex quantitative analyses. • Design and execute pilot proposal review process including establishment of scientific review criteria and facilitation of review process.

Lead and contribute to the analysis, interpretation, and reporting of study findings in diverse settings/formats, including posters, presentations, and publications (10%): • Identify opportunities for dissemination of UWAC findings. • Both independently and in collaboration with PIs, present on UWAC findings at local, national, and international forums. • Provides leadership for external seminars, workshops, and technical meetings in collaboration with PIs to meet center aims of dissemination of findings and methodologies.

Using sophisticated project management techniques, retains significant responsibility for independent coordination of administrative elements of the Center (20%): • Work with center directors to support and develop the center’s research staff, identifying staffing needs, supervising and/or mentoring junior staff and students. • Supervise creation and maintenance of study files, ensure audit readiness and ensure files are maintained and stored in a manner and for a timeframe that meets regulatory requirements. • Supervise tracking database development and maintenance, space allocation, equipment procurement, storage and transportation, when necessary. • Provide periodic status reports to PIs and other key personnel re: progress toward project timelines, milestones, deliverables and any obstacles to achieving them. • Serve as liaison between the UW project team, research project partners, community partners and funding agencies. • Assist with obtaining NDAs, MOUs, DUAs, MTAs, and other contractual agreements. • Monitor research budgets to ensure expenditures are allowable and allocable. • Create and maintain spending projections to ensure that research activities will be completed within funding provided. • Proactively identify budget issues, develop resolution plan with PI, and implement plan.

Serves as face of center to both internal and external customers, including leaders in the HCD and IS fields (10%): • Uses peer network within HCD and IS to identify opportunities for center dissemination activities and to bolster center aims.

Play critical role in the development of proposals for sponsored research (5%): • Assess funding opportunities and share with relevant members of the center team. • In collaboration with PIs, lead writing research grant proposals, including independently writing sections. • Apply expert level knowledge of grant application best practices to the scientific and budgetary aspects of grant development.

Foster and maintain relationships with a wide range of collaborators, colleagues, funders, faculty, staff, community partners, and research subjects (5%) MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Master’s Degree in Psychology, Public Health, Social Work, or related field, AND four years of job related experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience.

Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to work independently with occasional oversight. • Experience in team and project/program leadership. • Advanced quantitative and qualitative methodological knowledge and analysis skills. • Familiarity with human centered design methods (e.g., contextual inquiry, ideation, prototyping, usability evaluation) and the human/user-centered design process. • Demonstrated ability to develop recruitment strategies in complex environments with diverse subject pools, independently identifying recruitment leads, implementing new strategies, and continually adjusting strategies to meet current recruitment goals. • In-depth knowledge of clinical research contracts and grants, clinical trials, protocols, FDA regulations, and post-award compliance with federal funding. • Exceptional analytical skills to evaluate the importance and urgency of problems and to develop potential solutions. • Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills. • Demonstrated ability to analyze complex and non-routine issues requiring innovative solutions. • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a dynamic organizational and technological environment. • Demonstrated ability to develop project plans/schedules and motivate team to meet deadlines. • Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply complex policies and regulations. • Demonstrated financial analysis skills, including preparing and presenting financial and quantitative analyses, financial projections and budgets. • Significant project and clinical trial management experience or progressively responsible experience in a related position including regulatory and compliance responsibilities.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience facilitating multi-disciplinary meetings and workshops. • Demonstrated ability to manage multi-disciplinary teams and to manage and support the development of staff.

Application Process: The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are access ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.