Postdoctoral Fellow in Suicide Prevention Training
Listed on 2026-01-09
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Healthcare
Public Health, Data Scientist
Postdoctoral Fellow in Suicide Prevention Training Please see Special Instructions for more details.
Please upload the following documents with your electronic submission:
- List of three references with email and phone contact information, and summary of relationship with each reference.
- A research statement (not more than one page) describing your previous research work and future goals.
- Writing sample (AI generated writing samples will be screened out of eligibility).
General Information
Position Number
Position Number POST
40
Working Title
Working Title Postdoctoral Fellow in Suicide Prevention Training
Division
Division Academic Affairs
Department
Department College of Health & Human Svc (Col)
Work Unit
Work Unit Epidemiology and Comm Health
Work Location
Vacancy Open To
Vacancy Open To All Candidates
Position Designation
Position Designation Post Doc
Employment Type
Employment Type
Temporary - Full-time
Hours per week 40
Work Schedule
Pay Rate
Pay Rate 60,000 - 70,000
The Postdoctoral appointee must have recently (within the last eight years) been awarded a Ph.D. or equivalent doctorate (e.g., Sc.D., M.D.). Demonstrated experience and interest in mental health, suicide prevention, health professions training, and/or military health, as demonstrated through any or all of the following:
- A record of scholarly publication and presentation in these areas
- Suicide or military lived experience (e.g., active duty military service)
- Work experience in mental health, suicide prevention, health professions training, and/or military health focused settings
Experience in quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods, as demonstrated through any or all of the following:
- Competency in statistical programs, such as SPSS, R, STATA, or MPlus
- Competency in qualitative software, such as NVivo, Dedoose, or MaxQDA
- A record of publication including data cleaning (e.g., multiple imputation) and analysis (e.g., thematic analysis, repeated measures analysis) experience
- Familiarity with virtual data collection platforms (e.g., Red Cap, Qualtrics)
Comfort and demonstrated ability in all of the following:
- Developing training curricula and programs
- Written and oral communication
- A team science model
- Collaborative approach to research and training
- Initiative, independence, and integrity
- Ability to work on sensitive subject matter in a mature manner
Departmental
Preferred Experience , Skills, Training/
Education:
Ph.D. or equivalent in a field relevant to suicide prevention, military health, health professions training, and/or quantitative methods. Fields of interest include, but are not limited to, public health, psychology, sociology, social work, nursing, education, prevention science, statistics/decision sciences, epidemiology, and/or community health.
A Postdoctoral Fellow (“postdoc”) is a professional apprenticeship designed to provide recent Ph.D. recipients with an opportunity to develop further the research skills acquired in their doctoral programs or to learn new research techniques, in preparation for an academic or research career. In the process of further developing their own research skills, it is expected that Postdoctoral Fellows will also play a significant role in the performance of research at the University and augment the role of graduate faculty in providing research instruction to graduate students.
A Postdoctoral Fellow works under the supervision of a regular faculty member, who serves as a mentor to the Fellow, and it is expected that the faculty mentor will impart the realities, and variety, of scientific careers, and will encourage experiences outside the laboratory to broaden postdocs’ aspirations. Within the confines of the particular research focus assigned by that faculty member, the Postdoctoral Fellow functions with a considerable degree of independence and has the freedom (and is expected) to publish the results of his or her research or scholarship during the period of appointment.
Thus, the role of Postdoctoral Fellows is clearly differentiated from full-time technical employees.
Postdoc appointments are characterized by all of the following conditions:
- The appointee was recently (within the last eight years)…
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