Senior Director,Undergraduate Biomedical Research Job New York New York USA,Education / Teaching

Job Type: Officer of Administration
Bargaining Unit:
Regular/Temporary:
Regular
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Hours Per Week: 35
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Salary Range: $150,000 - $175,000

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the University's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

Position Summary

The Senior Director, Undergraduate Biomedical Research is a leadership position within VIBRE and reports to the Associate Dean for Biomedical Graduate Education and Director of VIBRE. The Senior Director leads the undergraduate research program connecting Columbia College and Barnard College students with research laboratories across VP&S. As the primary point of contact between students and principal investigators, the Senior Director recruits and interviews prospective interns, matches them to laboratories aligned with their interests and expertise, prepares them over the course of the academic year, ensures completion of all required training before placement, and mentor's students through their internship and next career steps.

Beyond the individual student experience, the Senior Director builds the connective scientific infrastructure that makes the program possible — establishing a faculty dissemination structure that seeds cooperative cross-laboratory projects and creating venues of synergy between basic and clinical scientists to support internships tailored to pre-med students.

Beyond the undergraduate program, the Senior Director will build scientific infrastructure that advances VIBRE’s broader training mission: making research across VP&S visible and accessible to trainees, creating opportunities for faculty and trainees to engage across laboratories and disciplines, and strengthening connections between basic and clinical science. The undergraduate program will thereby serve as both a pipeline into biomedical research and a platform for building the interdisciplinary scientific community at the heart of VIBRE.

Responsibilities

Serve as the liaison between undergraduates, with an initial focus on Columbia and Barnard students, seeking summer internships in VP&S laboratories and the principal investigators hosting them.

Interview prospective students and identify laboratories that fit their expertise and research interests.

Prepare students throughout the academic year and ensure they have completed all training required for their internship (e.g., laboratory safety, responsible conduct of research, and any applicable IACUC, IBC, or human-subjects certifications) prior to lab placement.

Monitor each student’s progress within their host laboratory and advocate on their behalf; organize scientific symposia at which interns present their work at the close of the internship; assist students in obtaining fellowships; and advise them on next career steps.

Ensure that participating principal investigators hold appropriate expectations of undergraduate interns and have the mentoring capacity to host them successfully.

Establish a scientific dissemination structure at VP&S through which faculty present their work to colleagues, catalyzing cooperative cross-laboratory projects that expand and enrich the research opportunities available to undergraduate interns.

Create venues for synergy between clinical and basic scientists, fostering internships tailored to the interests and career trajectories of pre-med students.

Manage and steward a dedicated program budget supporting summer internships and the organization of scientific events.

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