Current Employees: If you are a current Staff, Faculty or Temporary employee at the University of Miami, please click here to log in to Workday to use the internal application process. To learn how to apply for a faculty or staff position using the Career worklet, please review this tip sheet. ssociate Professor – Tenure earning/Tenured - Research Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Job Description Job Description The Associate Professor, tenure earning track, will manage postdoctoral fellows and their research projects, and will supervise research projects of interns, undergraduate or graduate students. The Associate Professor may lecture or conduct demonstrations and teach across UM schools. The Associate Professor will partner and collaborate with faculty in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Research Program (s) and perhaps other departments throughout UM, to advance knowledge, research, training, and education. This position will specialize in helping research and patients with cancer and their families. Key Areas of Responsibility • Reporting to the Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry & Mol Biology, the incumbent will conduct, collaborate and manage scientific research and investigations. • Manage the daily operations of his/her lab • Conduct regular lab and/or research team meetings • Supervise, mentor and manage postdoctoral fellows as well as graduate students engaged in collaborative research projects • Explore and develop appropriate research collaborations both within and outside of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine departments and schools • Collect and analyze data • May teach and/or counsel students at the undergraduate and graduate level • Write and submit scientific papers and abstracts, as well as submit grant proposals Qualifications Faculty members in the Department of Biochemistry & Mol Biology will need to meet the following requirements: Requirements (essential) • Ph.D. Biochemistry, Biology and/or equivalent area • Demonstrated knowledge and application of scientific techniques • Demonstrated experience in running a lab, funded research projects, and/or supervising post-docs • Strong written and oral communication skills • Ability to work with diverse constituency • Computer literacy • Completion of successful academic and researchl work that has resulted in authorship and co-authorship of papers in peer reviewed journals while serving as a faculty, and/or as a scientist. • Demonstrates ability to develop collaborative research projects in a manner consistent with the mentor’s research plan and contribute towards the making of scientific advances in the field of work. • Demonstrates ability to teach at the undergraduate/graduate level as well as in the laboratory setting and/or through presentations of papers and/or seminars. • Successful track of research projects/funds and contribution to grant applications that are collaborative in nature and/or demonstrated ability to write competitive grants independently. • Demonstrates desire to move towards scientific independence through submission of grant applications, development of independent research projects, or, collaborate with scientists other than the primary mentor with whom the scientist works. Current Employees: If you are a current Staff, Faculty or Temporary employee at the University of Miami, please click here to log in to Workday to use the internal application process. To learn how to apply for a faculty or staff position using the Career worklet, please review this tip sheet. Job Status: Full time Employee Type: Faculty