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About the Role
The Senior Research Scientist provides senior scientific, operational, and supervisory leadership for an expanding portfolio of transplant-focused operations research within the Center for Surgical and Transplant Applied Research (CSTAR). This role is responsible for overseeing the work of research staff, ensuring consistency, rigor, and timely execution across multiple concurrent studies, and serving as a key point of continuity across projects.
Responsibilities
- Provide senior-level oversight of quantitative, statistical, optimization, and simulation based analyses conducted by CSTAR research staff.
- Guide development and execution of analytic strategies, statistical analysis plans, and modeling approaches across multiple studies.
- Review and quality-check analytic outputs, code, and documentation to ensure methodological rigor, reproducibility, and adherence to study protocols.
- Support interpretation of results and contribute to manuscripts, abstracts, presentations, and reports under faculty direction.
- Serve as direct supervisor for research staff.
- Provide day-to-day guidance, mentoring, and performance feedback; support onboarding, training, and professional development.
- Assist CSTAR leadership with workload planning, prioritization, and coordination across projects.
- Participate in hiring, annual reviews, and promotion recommendations in collaboration with department leadership.
- Oversee execution of multiple concurrent research projects, ensuring milestones and deliverables are met.
- Serve as a point of escalation for technical or operational issues arising within the research team.
- Promote consistency in analytic methods, documentation, and best practices across projects.
- Prepare interim summaries and reports for principal investigators, funders, and oversight bodies as needed.
- Interface with faculty investigators to translate research questions into feasible analytic approaches.
- Collaborate with internal and external research partners, including investigators at other academic institutions.
- Support grant development and reporting activities for NIH-funded and other sponsored research, including contributing to methods and analytic sections.
Requirements
- Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.
Skills
- quantitative analysis
- statistical analysis
- optimization
- simulation
- analytic strategies
- statistical analysis plans
- modeling approaches
- methodological rigor
- reproducibility
- grant development
- reporting activities
Location
- NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3 years of experience
- Senior
Education Level
- PhD
Salary/Compensations
- $65,000.00 - $100,000.00 Annually
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness package
- Financial security benefits
- Generous time-off program
- Employee resources groups for peer support
- Holistic employee wellness program focusing on physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care
About the Company
- NYU Grossman School of Medicine is one of the nation's top-ranked medical schools.
- For 175 years, NYU Grossman School of Medicine has trained thousands of physicians and scientists who have helped to shape the course of medical history and enrich the lives of countless people.
- An integral part of NYU Langone Health, the Grossman School of Medicine at its core is committed to improving the human condition through medical education, scientific research, and direct patient care.
- At NYU Langone Health, equity and inclusion are fundamental values.
- We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive.
- We embrace inclusion and individual skills, ideas, and knowledge.
Equal Opportunity
- NYU Grossman School of Medicine is an equal opportunity employer and committed to inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment.
- All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration.
- We require applications to be completed online.
- View Know Your Rights: Workplace discrimination is illegal.