Job Openings

Laboratory Animal Technician II

Summary

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

1. Education: Associate degree in an Animal Science program preferred. 

2. License/Certifications: Assistant Laboratory Animal Technician (ALAT) certification is required within 1.5 years of hire date. 

3. Experience: Demonstrates competency in all essential functions of a Laboratory Animal Technician I role. 

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Lead Research Coordinator Trainer

Summary

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

1. Education: Bachelor’s degree in a health science or related field required.
2. License/Certifications: Certification by the Association of Clinical Research Professionals or Society of Clinical Research Associates preferred.
3. Experience: 2 years of clinical experience in a healthcare setting required.
4. Knowledge of basic statistical principles and methods.
5. Ability to function independently and as part of a team.
6. Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
7. Demonstrable computer competency in Microsoft Word and Excel.

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Project Manager 

Summary

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

1. Education: Bachelor’s Degree required. Master’s Degree preferred. 
2. License/Certifications: N/A 
3. Experience: Three years of multidisciplinary project management experience required, including development of new systems, techniques, procedures, and special and recurring reports or analysis. 
4. Additional Skills/Requirements Required: Excellent communication and public speaking skills and ability to write and present for a variety of audiences. 

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Research Assistant II

Summary

This position is for someone interested in joining the research team within the  MHIR Physiology Core, MaineHealth Institute for Research, Scarborough, ME. This Research Assistant II will work under the guidance of the Core Manager, Victora DeMambro.

The Physiology Core’s mission is to provide high quality in vivo and in vitro metabolic phenotyping services for COBRE project leads, other MaineHealth researchers, and outside investigators. The successful applicant should have basic laboratory skills and previous experience working with mouse models of human disease. This candidate will conduct a variety of laboratory procedures:  assist the Core Manager and other lab members in maintaining mouse colonies; set-up, operate, and maintain laboratory instruments and equipment; monitor experiments; make observations; and calculate and record results. The Research Assistant II must be able to recognize problems or deviations in experimental conditions and notify appropriate personnel. After the onboarding and training phase, they should be able to master routine techniques and procedures relevant to the overall goals of the Physiology Core. Having previous experience in mouse husbandry, cell culture and statistical analysis would be beneficial, but we are willing to train the right candidate.

This position is a fully onsite role at our Scarborough, ME research facility.

The availability of this position is directly related to grant funding.

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

1. Education: Bachelor’s Degree required.
2. License/Certifications: N/A
3. Experience: Minimum of one year of relevant experience required.  Demonstrates competency in all essential functions of a Research Assistant I – Bench role.
4. Additional Skills/Requirements Required: N/A
5. Additional Skills/Requirements Preferred: N/A

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Research Associate II

Summary

This position is for someone interested in joining the MaineHealth Institute for Research team within the Vary Lab, which also has responsibility for MHIR’s Proteomics & Lipidomics Core Facility. This position will have responsibilities that include collaborative research projects and core facility work. This work includes human and mouse sample preparation, and state-of-the-art quantitative analysis of proteomic and lipidomic changes in several exciting contexts, including protein-protein interactions, cell signaling, cell secretomics, and disease-related changes in mitochondrial protein expression. Importantly, the candidate will have a unique opportunity for advancement by training in mass spectrometric instrumentation, data acquisition and analysis. Experience with molecular biologic as well as cell culture techniques is preferred, as is experience with mass spectrometry and liquid chromatography instrumentation.

The MaineHealth application, a cover letter, and a resume with three professional references are all required for application.

This is a full-time, onsite research position at our Scarborough, Maine research facility.

We may consider applicants with less education and/or years of experience for a lower-level position.

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

1. Education: Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field required. Master’s Degree preferred. 
2. License/Certifications: N/A 
3. Experience: Four years of relevant experience with a Masters Degree or six years of experience with a Bachelors Degree required. Demonstrates competency in all essential functions of Research Associate I role. 

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Research Data Analyst II – Clinical Trials

Summary

This position is for someone interested in a role which is responsible for identifying, collecting, integrating, and analyzing data in support of an assigned project, and which will work independently and use methodologies consistent with applicable policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements. This role will support the Clinical Trials Division at the MaineHealth Institute for Research, based in Scarborough, ME. 

A fully remote (except from Alaska, California, Colorado, Nevada, Puerto Rico, or Washington D.C.) or flexible on-site/off-site work schedule from our Scarborough, ME offices is available for this position.

The MaineHealth application, a cover letter and a resume or CV are all required elements for application to this position.

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

1.  Education: Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s Degree preferred. 
2.  License/Certifications: N/A 
3. Experience: Three years of experience analyzing data required, preferably in a healthcare setting. Demonstrates competency in all essential functions of a Research Data Analyst I role. 

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Research Fellow – Pinz Lab

Summary

This position is for someone interested in joining the research team within the Pinz Laboratory at the MaineHealth Institute for Research, Scarborough, ME. This Research Fellow will conduct a variety of complex laboratory procedures and will be able to conduct research under the guidance of Principal Investigator, Ilka Pinz. This Research Fellow will have a sufficient level of experience, expertise and independence to conduct a defined research project, including project inception and design, implementation, and completion; with reporting of results in a peer-reviewed forum consisting of oral and written presentation. Research in the Pinz Laboratory is focused primarily on caveolae membrane microdomains and their role in cardiovascular health. Our research uses loss-of-function mouse models and mutant caveolin protein expression to investigate the role of caveolins in cardiac contractile function, insulin sensitivity and diabetic cardiomyopathy. We collaborate with clinicians to investigate the role of caveolae in patients with cardiovascular disease. The successful applicant has knowledge of cell transfection with mutated proteins, cell culture, Western blotting, and protein extractions. Experience with mouse models is a plus, but not required. Some aspects of this work will be performed in our outstanding core facilities and the successful applicant is expected to collaborate and communicate with other team members to coordinate these efforts. Outstanding written and oral communication skills and attention to detail are expected. 

MaineHealth Institute for Research (MHIR) is committed to providing postdoctoral Research Fellows a robust research training experience within an engaged and inclusive community of scientists. We support the continued research training of postdoctoral fellows who have earned a PhD, MD, or MD/PhD degrees. The goal of our program is to provide a rigorous, mentored research experience that focuses on the design, implementation, and completion of a novel research project.  

Research Fellows at MHIR are compensated based on years of experience and are eligible for the generous benefits package provided to MaineHealth employees.  

Research Fellows participate in a robust training program that includes a seminar series with networking with local and national speakers, and presentation of their own research progress. Responsible Conduct of Research programming is run throughout the year to ensure that Research Fellows are adequately trained. We expect our postdoctoral fellows to present research findings at annual meetings and publish in peer-reviewed journals. Research Fellows are also encouraged and supported to submit applications for fellowship support or early career grants. 

MHIR has an active and engaged Student and Postdoc Association that promotes professional development and a sense of community for students and postdocs. The MHIR Research Training and Education Office supports research trainees in all aspects of their training throughout their time at MHIR, including facilitation of Individual Development Plans, and annual reviews and meetings with MHIR scientific leadership. MHIR is a sustaining member of the National Postdoc Association, providing all of our students and Research Fellows the opportunity to have a free Affiliate Membership, and Research Training and Education Office Staff are members of the Graduate Career Consortium and the American Association of Medical Colleges Group on Research Education and Training (GREAT Group), connecting us with the larger national conversations about student and postdoctoral affairs.  

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

1. Education: Doctoral Degree (e.g. PhD, MD, DO, DVM, PharmD) required.

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