Sr. Academic Research Spclist

Job Details

The Senior Academic Research Specialist leads the design, preparation, and implementation of research projects for Residents, Fellows, and Faculty across the Departments of Medicine and Surgery, ensuring high-quality scholarly output and timely project completion. This role provides advanced expertise in research methodology, data management, statistical analysis, and the development of abstracts, manuscripts, and presentations, while also contributing to resident education as adjunct faculty. The Specialist supports key academic initiatives—including the Internal Medicine Resident Research Symposium—and offers administrative and methodological guidance for conference participation and external presentations. Additionally, the Senior Academic Research Specialist plays a vital role in cultivating a strong research culture by mentoring trainees, supporting grant and funding activities, and upholding institutional standards for academic excellence.

Job Description

Essential Functions

• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
• Supervises and coordinates to completion, research projects for Residents, Fellows, and Faculty in the Departments of Medicine and Surgery by assisting in research design, proposal writing, and in creation of Institutional Review Board (IRB) documents.
• Supervises and coordinates to completion acquisition, analysis and submission of research data as it pertains to research projects for Residents, Fellows, and Faculty in Departments of Medicine and Surgery. Assists Residents, Fellows, and Faculty in the preparation of abstracts, manuscripts, posters and presentation materials to promote timely submission of completed research.
• Teaches research design and methods to Medicine and Surgery Residents at Jefferson Abington Hospital.
• Participates in semimonthly Resident Journal Club for the Department of Medicine and Department of Surgery as needed.
• Supervises Resident elective in Research and provides Resident evaluation and performance assessment to measure skill achievement for purposes of promotion and requirement completion.
• Possesses knowledge of research design, survey instruments and statistics. Develops survey instruments and data collection methods for entry into statistical program databases. Analyzes data with appropriate parametric and non-parametric statistics using available software such as SPSS. Teaches and supervises use of graphical displays of data in research presentations and publications to assist Residents, Fellows, and Faculty.
• Coordinates submission for and is administrative support for Internal Medicine Resident Research Symposium. Serves as key administrative support for external conferences and presentations involving Resident research.
Assists in grant writing or other research funding activities to support Resident Research projects.

Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required):

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills required;
• Facile with computerized statistical analysis software required;
• Demonstrated skills in team building.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

Education:

• Master’s degree in science or related field; PhD degree preferred.

AND

Experience:

10+ years’ experience in academic research support and design activities; must have experience in medical-related or clinical research. Teaching experience required;

Minimum Certifications, Registration or License Requirements:

CITI training; licensed clinician preferred

Additional Information

• Experience with grant writing and manuscript writing strongly preferred.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Abington Memorial Hospital

Primary Location Address

1200 Old York Road, Abington, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University , home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health , nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps ), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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