• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary: N/A
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Salary Range: $69,300 - $69,300 Annual

Position Summary

Columbia University Irving Medical Center is seeking a highly motivated individual to take on the position of the Laboratory Manager in the Nectow Laboratory at Columbia University in New York City. The Nectow Lab works on the neurobiology of energy balance.  The lab places a particular emphasis on the molecular, cellular, and circuit mechanisms through which the brain regulates food intake and energy expenditure.  Additionally the lab develops novel technologies to observe and perturb neuronal function. 

The Laboratory manager would be responsible for laboratory administrative duties as well as overseeing experimental work, day to day operations of the lab, establishing and enforcing standard operating procedures, assisting lab members with critical experiments, and perform required experimental essays, among other duties.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, and manage the operational and administrative aspects of laboratory operations.
• Scheduling for PI, protocol management, funds management, grant and manuscript assistance.
• Ordering supplies and lab equipment.
• Scheduling staff.
• Prepares and dispenses laboratory stock solutions.
• Perform laboratory work, including basic molecular biology.
• Responsible for grant spending bookkeeping.
• Responsible for assisting lab members with critical experiments.
• Assist in establishing and maintaining laboratory policies and procedures.
• Maintain communication between the laboratory to ensure efficient workflow.
• Provide assistance with institutional protocols.
• Perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Biology, Neuroscience or related science or equivalent in education and experience, plus four years of related experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with molecular biology techniques.
• Some prior administrative experience.

Other Requirements

• Experienced professional with strong laboratory management experience.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, communication, and computer skills.
• Participation in the medical surveillance program:
  • Work with laboratory animals
• Successful completion of applicable compliance and systems training requirements

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

Columbia University is committed to the hiring of qualified local residents.

About Columbia University

Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. The University recognizes the importance of its location in New York City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It seeks to attract a diverse and international faculty and student body, to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions. It expects all areas of the university to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world.

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