Post-Doc Research Associate

University of North Carolina, United States

Updated: over 2 years ago
Location: Chapel Hill, NORTH CAROLINA
Job Type: FullTime
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Posting Information
Department Womens Health Resrch Ctr - 425201
Posting Open Date 01/03/2022
Application Deadline
Open Until Filled Yes
Position Type Postdoctoral Scholar
Position Title Post-Doc Research Associate
Vacancy ID PDS003316
Full-time/Part-time Full-Time Temporary
Hours per week 40
FTE 1
Work Location Chapel Hill, NC
Position Location North Carolina, US
Hiring Range $55,000 - $59,000
Proposed Start Date 03/01/2022
Estimated Duration of Appointment 12 Months

Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit
The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing 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. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service. 
OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nation’s leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.
OUR MISSION
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 will 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 will prepare tomorrow’s health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.
Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.
Position Summary
The Center for Women’s Health Research (CWHR) is an innovative model for providing comprehensive non-laboratory based research services to investigators across the UNC campus. Launched in 2000, the Center foster interdisciplinary research collaboration, facilitates grant preparation, coordinates research, supports career development of women’s health researchers, and enhances visibility of women’s health research at UNC, in the local community and at the state and national level. CWHR supports research teams without regard to the administrative unit that will receive the award, and prioritizes assisting with proposals that would not otherwise receive facilitation and/orthose that, if funded, would launch a new area of women’s health research at UNC. The Horizons Program is a regional perinatal/maternal substance abuse treatment program of the Department of OB-GYN at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This program provides comprehensive, gender specific, trauma-informed outpatient and residential treatment for pregnant women and mothers and their children. The woman works on her recovery from active addiction, trauma and other mental health issues, parenting, and education and employment for self-sufficiency. The program provides evidence-based groups, individual therapy, Intensive Recovery Supports, Peer Support Services, as well as psychiatric assessment and treatment. This program also conducts research in the USA and internationally on problems of substance use disorders among women and children.
This position will be responsible for assisting the Principal Investigator in all aspects of the study as well as being integrated in aspects of the family treatment services and their measurement at UNC Horizons in order to inform national and international interventions for children at risk for and actively using substances. Such aspects include, but are not limited to, assisting in adherence to all IRB and other rules and regulations governing research and projects for human subjects, project conduct (e.g., policy and procedure manual) data collection, study related documentation accuracy and organization for audits and review, and assisting the study team in other tasks and duties as needed. This position will serve as back up to the program manager in coordinating meetings, facilitating communication, data entry, updating manuals, and assisting and supporting the PI. This position will serve as a Master Trainer for the intervention. This position will assist in setting up and monitoring field operations, procedures, and quality assurance measures for the study as well as developing and maintaining all study forms and tracking all data. Other duties include maintaining weekly communication with the field site, troubleshooting issues, reviewing and cleaning data, and supporting the development of staff training related to the project. This position will ensure REDCap data entry timeliness, quality, and helping with data entry. This position will work with UNC Horizons and travel to India.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements
A PhD with documented maternal and child clinical and research experience
Required Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience
A PhD with documented maternal and child clinical and research experience
Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience
Experience working with parents who use substances or children that are at risk for substance use or actively using substances, especially in residential treatment settings. Provided services in the format of Child Parent Psychotherapy with a focus on parent-child attachment repair. Being a Circle of Security Parenting, Registered Facilitator as well as Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy certified or Certification Eligible. Ability to travel to India, strong communication skills, ability to solve problems and work with individuals from diverse backgrounds.
Special Physical/Mental Requirements
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Department Contact Name and Title Hendree Jones, Professor /Katrina Mounlavongsy HR
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