Research Program Manager

Program Manager

The Program Manager is responsible for the overall administration and related activities to support the high quality research and research translations programs for Tippi Mac Kenzie, MD, including the Center for Maternal‑Fetal Precision Medicine (CMFPM), the Center for Genome Surgery (CGS), and the Mac Kenzie Lab. This position, under the direction Tippi Mac Kenzie, MD, (reporting to Emma Canepa) is responsible for: programmatic planning;

communications; financial activities; strategic planning; organizational infrastructure; community building; information management; coordination of grants and related financial activities; human resources support (staff, fellows, visitors).

This role will need to work independently to identify and address challenges as they arise, often for the first time. This position requires a self‑starter; keen learner; and an experienced, resourceful problem solver with skills in organization, project‑management and implementation, interpersonal relations, and team management. The Program Manager works cooperatively with Campus and Medical Center personnel, including faculty, staff, graduate students, research and medical fellows.

To effectively manage the ongoing operations of the Center and to facilitate the growth of new programs, the Program Manager requires some facility with the subject matter, which an applicant is unlikely to have but must be able to learn at a sophisticated, lay level. This role is responsible for internal and external communications, including communication with internal and outside collaborators, overseeing the communications strategy and outreach, writing and editing documents such as newsletters, donor reports, websites, announcements, and social media posts.

They will lead the planning of events such as symposia, workshops, and retreats, and will assist with coordinating multicenter research projects.

This role will support Dr. Tippi Mac Kenzie's programmatic needs for the Center for Maternal‑Fetal Precision Medicine (CMFPM), the Center for Genome Surgery (CGS), and the Mac Kenzie Lab (Lab).

The UCSF Center for Maternal‑Fetal Precision Medicine is an interdisciplinary research collaboration that is administratively housed in the Department of Surgery, a major academic clinical department in the UCSF School of Medicine. Faculty, staff, and trainees from many research and clinical specialties, across many departments and clinical services, contribute to the CMFPM's goals to improve prenatal diagnosis of genetic diseases and to develop genomic and other molecular therapies to treat genetic diseases before birth.

The research activities are highly‑collaborative and span the full range of basic, clinical, and translational research, including clinical trials. Key staff members on the CMFPM team include a prenatal genetic counselor, a clinical trials manager, a prenatal sequencing program manager, an embedded ethicist, research fellows, clinical research staff, and this program manager role, all working in close cooperation. Close collaborators at UCSF include the Center for Genome Surgery, Fetal Treatment Center, Prenatal Diagnostic Center, Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, and the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley.

The CMFPM is co‑directed by Dr. Mary Norton, a leader in precision prenatal diagnosis, and Dr. Tippi Mac Kenzie, a leader in prenatal molecular therapies. The CMFPM is poised to develop personalized, life‑saving genomic therapies for our youngest patients with serious genetic diseases. It is an exciting time to join the Center.

The Center for Genome Surgery is an interdisciplinary research collaboration that is administratively housed in the Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, a major academic research unit ulty, staff, and trainees from many research and clinical specialties, across many departments and clinical services, contribute to the CGS's goals to improve genomic therapies to treat rare genetic diseases. The research activities are highly‑collaborative and span the full range of basic, clinical, and translational research,…