Posted in General Business 30+ days ago.
Type: Full-Time
Location: Houston, Texas
Position Summary
The Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies (Rice360), a multi-disciplinary institute at Rice University, is a leader in global health technology education, research, and implementation, with a distinctive focus on experiential and problem-based learning. Rice360 develops highly effective, low-cost healthcare solutions addressing critical healthcare needs in underserved communities and educates a cadre of future leaders to continue to innovate and implement solutions. Rice360 works closely with partners in underserved communities throughout the world, including low- and middle-income countries and the United States.
Rice University is the lead institution for the newly established Center for Innovation and Translation of Point-of-Care Technologies for Equitable Cancer Care (CITEC). Joining collaborators at Rice University, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, The University of Sao Paulo and Barretos Cancer Hospital in Brazil and partners in Mozambique at The Universidade Eduardo Mondlane and Ministry of Health, CITEC will unite a global community of investigators to support the development, evaluation, refinement and translation of a pipeline of POC technologies to enable early detection and treatment of cancer, with a focus on meeting the needs of medically underserved populations both in the U.S. and LMICs. CITEC will identify high-priority clinical needs for POC cancer technologies; accelerate development of effective, affordable technologies to meet these needs; evaluate and improve the clinical and public health impact of POC technologies in low-and high-resource settings; and train a diverse workforce of developers and users to create and disseminate more equitable POC technologies. CITEC will have a major impact on equitable prevention, diagnosis and early treatment of cancer in the U.S. and worldwide, and will work with the NIH Point of Care Technology Research Network (POCTRN) to build a strong team of global partners to strengthen and sustain POC technology development.
Rice360 is seeking a CITEC program manager who, under the supervision of Rice360 faculty director and CITEC program director (PD) Dr. Rebecca Richards-Kortum and CITEC Co-PIs, will facilitate engagement with the POCTRN Coordination and Technology Support Center (CTSC) to: solicit and support high priority projects; follow a rigorous, milestone-based process to accelerate technology development; ensure that developed technologies meet an actual need; and ensure efficient use of resources. The CITEC program manager will oversee the portfolio of sub-projects supported by CITEC and will directly engage with the project management teams to provide direction to funded projects, including working with the CTSC and the PD/PIs to: establish a project management team, negotiate final development go/no-go milestones for the sub-project awards, and provide links to appropriate technical, commercialization, and regulatory support together with access to key infrastructure necessary for technology refinement and translation.
The ideal candidate has significant program management experience-preferably within global health and international development and/or cancer screening/diagnosis technology development programs-, with a demonstrated record of meaningful contribution to the accomplishment of outcomes for an international, multi-partner project supported by U.S. government funding. They are experienced with travel to Africa and/or Latin America, and have a willingness and ability to travel nationally and internationally.
This is a Houston-based full-time position (M-F 8am-5pm, with occasional early morning, evening, or weekend work required to accommodate time zone differences for meetings with partners), with periodic domestic and international travel to partner sites, including Brazil and Mozambique.
Proposed Hiring Range: $70,000/year, contingent upon qualifications and experience.
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