Recruitment/Posting Title Research Teaching Specialist V Job Category Staff & Executive - Research Support (Laboratory/Non-Laboratory) Department SPH-School of Public Health-NWK Overview New Jersey’s academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University–New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and six centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, clinical and translational research, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.

Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.<br>Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state including New Brunswick, Piscataway, Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Blackwood, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.

Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.  Posting Summary The New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center (GVRC) at Rutgers seeks to create safe and healthy environments for NJ residents to live, learn, work, and play by providing high-quality, multi-disciplinary research on firearm violence causality and prevention, and to translate this research into clear and actionable policies and programs. The Center partners with relevant local-, state-, and national-level experts, securing access to data to conduct and support research that identifies etiologic factors for firearm violence, develops and rigorously evaluates interventions to reduce the burden of firearm violence, and translates its scientific findings into effective programs and policies to better ensure their widespread adoption.

The GVRC is looking for a Research Teaching Specialist V to assist with a grant-funded project during which GVRC team members will train members of the National Guard throughout the country in the administration of an intervention known as Project SafeGuard (PSG). PSG is a suicide prevention tool that focuses on encouraging secure firearm storage and the GVRC team will be primarily responsible for the quantitative assessments that take place during and following the trainings. This is an ideal position for an individual planning to apply for graduate school and aiming to gain suicide prevention research experience. Opportunities to work with GVRC data, develop peer reviewed manuscripts, and present data at national conferences will be available.

This position is 100% grant-funded and located in Piscataway, NJ.

This project is supported by the Henry Jackson Foundation and the Uniformed Services University. Position Status Full Time Hours Per Week 37.50 Daily Work Shift Day Work Arrangement FLSA Exempt Grade 17S Position Salary $66,714 maximum salary offered (grant-funded) Annual Minimum Salary 49097.00 Annual Mid Range Salary 58427.00 Annual Maximum Salary 68819.00 Standard Hours 37.50 Union Description HPAE 5094 Payroll Designation PeopleSoft Benefits Rutgers offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees. For details, please go to http://uhr.rutgers.edu/benefits/benefits-overview. Seniority Unit Terms of Appointment Staff - 12 month Position Pension Eligibility ABP