Associate Director, Lab Projects and Analytics

Department
 

Booth Faculty Research - Healthcare Programs

About the Department
 

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and second to none when it comes to influencing business education and business practices. Since 1898, the school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Their rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education transforms students into confident, effective, respected business leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges.

Chicago Booth has the finest set of facilities of any business school in the world. Each of the four campuses (two in Chicago, one in London, and one in Hong Kong) reflects the architectural traditions of its environs while offering a state-of-the-art learning environment.

Chicago Booth is proud to claim:
-an unmatched faculty.
-degree and open enrollment programs offered on three continents.
-a global body of nearly 56,000 accomplished alumni.
-strong and growing corporate relationships that provide a wealth of lifelong career opportunities.

As part of the world-renowned University of Chicago, Chicago Booth shares the University's core values that shape the distinctive intellectual culture. At Booth, they constantly question and test ideas, and seek proof. This extraordinarily effective approach to business leads to new ideas and innovative solutions. Seven of the Booth faculty members have won Nobel Prizes for these ideas - the first business school to achieve this accomplishment.

For more information about the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, please visit: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/.

Job Summary
 

The Associate Director, Lab Projects and Analytics will serve as project manager for Professor Dan Adelman’s Healthcare Analytics Lab, including courses, research studies, and software development, implementation, and validation projects. The Healthcare Analytics Lab (HAL) brings research into the classroom in order to transform healthcare with new analytic approaches. In this position, the Lab Manager will ensure that HAL research staff and collaborators have the data and IT infrastructure necessary to pursue their innovative curricula, healthcare research, and analytical tool development and implementation. The Associate Director will be the primary liaison with IT services and vendors that build and support the lab’s data environments. This role will also support the lab’s new strategic priority to scale research impact by developing user-focused applications for both teaching and supporting healthcare operations.

Responsibilities

• Serves as liaison between HAL and IT staff at Booth, the University, and partner organizations, including managing support requests, contributing to requirements documentation, coordinating meetings, and discussing procedures and outcomes.
• Assists in onboarding new students, research assistants and lab collaborators to the HAL secure data environment.
• Supports external constituents (may include students and faculty at other universities and health systems) in the access and use of lab materials.
• Assists in recruitment needs for the HAL, as needed.
• Develops and supports data security structures and processes and assists in maintaining lab compliance records.
• Coordinates vendor relationships and contracting processes.
• Develops and manages project plans, with input from key stakeholders, including IT, contracting, research and administrative staff.
• Coordinates data intake process.
• Coordinates course set-up process for Prof. Adelman’s data-intensive healthcare courses.
• Provides course assistance as requested, answering student questions, troubleshooting, and ensuring timely resolution of access and other technical issues.
• Uses subject matter and best practices knowledge to perform lab and/or research-related duties and tasks. Works independently to assist with project design.
• Guides data collection, evaluation and analysis. Designs and manages databases. Writes reports, articles and manuscripts.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications
 

Education:

Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.

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Work Experience:

Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 5-7 years of work experience in a related job discipline.

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Certifications:

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Preferred Qualifications

Education: