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Academic Program Manager
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, USA
Full-time
Manager
Onsite
Discovered 3 weeks ago
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Qualifications
- Required Qualifications
- Expertise in proteomics, network biology, or related quantitative approaches to therapeutic discovery.
- Demonstrated experience directing research programs and establishing scientific and strategic direction independently.
- Demonstrated experience in commercial or investment assessment of biomedical assets, including scientific diligence, competitive landscape analysis, and evaluation of therapeutic programs for partnership or investment potential.
- Demonstrated experience managing relationships with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or investment organizations at the executive level.
- Demonstrated success securing research funding from competitive philanthropic, federal, or industry sources.
- Experience supervising staff and managing program budgets.
- Advanced knowledge of oncology therapeutic development, including target discovery, translational research, and the drug development pathway.
- Advanced negotiation, consensus-building, and executive communication skills, including ability to represent complex science to commercial and philanthropic audiences.
- Minimum of six years related experience.
- Minimum of five years project lead, supervisory, or management experience.
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience negotiating industry research agreements or licensing transactions; familiarity with technology transfer and company formation.
- Demonstrated success establishing a research program, function, or organization from inception.
- Required Education
- Terminal degree in a related area (PhD, JD, MD, etc.) and / or equivalent experience / training required.
Responsibilities
- Scientific Program Direction and Insitutional Leadership
- Manages the design and development of major research or academic program components and oversees execution of funded programs. Identifies and develops continuance of funding from multiple external sources.
- Establishes QBI-Oncology as a program; directs its scientific strategy, operational execution, and long-term sustainability.
- Formulates program policy, portfolio priorities, and evaluation standards; determines which projects advance, continue, or conclude.
- Defines priority areas for oncology research and translation, including cancer signaling, systems biology, protein interaction networks, therapeutic resistance, and precision oncology.
- Originates new research directions and scientific programs within the oncology portfolio, developing the scientific hypotheses and translational rationale that define them.
- Directs the scientific execution of the research portfolio, setting experimental and analytical strategy and reviewing scientific output across projects.
- Chairs the QBI-Oncology steering committee; reports portfolio performance to QBI executive leadership quarterly.
- Holds accountability for program milestone delivery; resolves scientific, operational, and partnership barriers to execution.
- Advises the QBI Director and executive team on resource allocation, and institutional partnership strategy.
- Cultivates relationships across UCSF departments and institutes, the UC system, and the Bay Area technology and entrepreneurial ecosystem to advance QBI-Oncology's scientific and commercial objectives.
- Development and Revenue Generation
- Develops and executes strategic plan for financing program activities and ensuring ongoing sustainability of program.
- Manages team to direct the program's development strategy and holds primary accountability for growing its funding base at multi-million-dollar scale.
- Cultivates and stewards relationships with philanthropic funders and foundation principals; develops and submits major proposals.
- Originates and negotiates industry-sponsored research agreements and multi-year collaborations, in coordination with UCSF Innovation Ventures and the Office of Technology Management, and advances them through applicable University approval and execution processes.
- Serves as scientific and business lead on oncology industry partnerships, including agreement scoping, milestone definition, budget negotiation, and partner management.
- Ensures through subordinates that the technical scope, cost structure, and reporting obligations of all program agreements are maintained; serves as the program lead for translating agreement requirements into program strategy.
- Assesses program resource needs and funding gaps, and advises the QBI Director on investment priorities and long-term financial planning to support program strategy and sustainability.
- Personnel and Resource Management
- Ensures through subordinates varied and competing requirements associated with managing an innovative program in a university and / or government environment.
- Recruits, hires, supervises, and develops 2–4 scientific and program staff; determines staffing strategy and conducts performance management.
- Directs the research of program scientists, setting project priorities, reviewing data and interpretation, and determining scientific next steps.
- Directs cross-functional teams spanning faculty investigators, research staff, computational biologists, proteomics scientists, clinicians, grants administrators, development officers, and innovation staff.
- Advises the QBI Director on program budget planning and resource needs, providing recommendations regarding the allocation of resources across projects, core facility utilization, personnel, and external advisory and vendor relationships.
- Directs cross-functional teams spanning faculty investigators, research staff, computational biologists, clinicians, grants administrators, and innovation staff.
- Provides leadership oversight of staff interfaces with contract research organizations, academic partners, and federal and philanthropic agencies.
- Establishes program operating infrastructure and an external advisory board of 3–5 senior scientific and industry advisors.
- Scientific and Commercial Assessment
- Plans, directs and controls program budget(s) and manages financial, HR, technical and other supporting resources.
- Directs the program's assessment function, evaluating research assets for translational and commercial potential against the external oncology landscape.
- Determines go/no-go criteria and directs strategy on target selection, indication prioritization, and resistance biology.
- Develops and recommends intellectual property strategy for program-derived assets in coordination with the Office of Technology Management, including disclosure review and licensing assessment.
- Advances assets toward commercialization pathways, including licensing and company formation, with UCSF Innovation Ventures and other entities.
- Directs scientific communications and external positioning that establish QBI-Oncology's institutional visibility with academic, industry, and philanthropic audiences.
- Decisions made independently by this position include: program scientific direction and priority areas; which projects advance, continue, or conclude; hiring and performance management of program staff; allocation of program budget and resources; selection and prioritization of funding and partnership opportunities; and terms proposed in partnership and sponsored research negotiations, subject to standard University execution authority.
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