Director, Translational Development

Basic education, experience and skills required for consideration:

• Requires a PhD in biology, immunology, virology, or other life science; or, a master’s degree with at least five years of laboratory management, clinical and animal protocol submissions and maintenance, or clinical trial regulatory experience in a healthcare/research/academic environment
• 7 years of experience laboratory management, clinical and animal protocol submissions and maintenance, or clinical trial regulatory experience in a healthcare/research/academic environment with
• 5 years proven experience managing multiple development projects.
• Strong scientific background with outstanding project management, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Effective oral and written communication skills to influence, inform and guide a large clinical development team.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent human relation skills
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary and matrixed teams.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, meet deadlines, and perform and prioritize multiple simultaneous tasks. Requires judgment that could affect the image of City of Hope
• Proven teambuilding skills and ability to foster partnerships across projects and multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross functional groups and participate in problem solving process.
• Innovative, driven, highly organized self-starter with the ability to handle multiple activities and comfortable interacting with all levels of management within the organization.
• Proven ability in negotiating/influencing and collaboration skills.
• Experience with project management approaches or tools, project planning, timeline and budget management.
• Ability to instruct, train & interview others.
• Ability to maintain staffing levels, monitor productivity and staffing.
• Able to delegate tasks and to troubleshoot problems.

Preferred education experience and skills:

• PhD degree in Biology, Immunology, Virology, or other life science.
• 5 years of post-graduate program management experience in managing multiple development projects biology, immunology, virology, or other life science
• Familiarity and experience working with pre-clinical and clinical development partners.
• Program management experience and demonstrated contributions to successful regulatory filings (IND/CTA).
• Involvement with human observational or therapeutic studies and protocol design/writing for animal and human observational/retrospective or therapeutic studies; familiarity with project management, IRB, IACUC, IBC, FDA and other regulatory bodies; and data analysis techniques, graphing methods, and interpretation of laboratory and clinical data.

City of Hope is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

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