What are the responsibilities and job description for the Postdoc - Implementation Science position at Boston College?
Boston College Introduction
Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,445 full-time undergraduates and 5,125 graduate and professional students. Ranked 35 among national universities, Boston College has 878 full-time and 1,201 FTE faculty, 2,750 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.2 billion, and an endowment in excess of $2.8 billion.
Job Description
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow Minimum Stipend: $54,835
Study description and training context: Seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with extensive expertise in implementation science to work under the direction of Dr. Kirsten Davison on the MI VACUNA (Motivational Interviewing for VACcine Uptake in latiNx Adults) study. Funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research, and in collaboration with East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC), MI VACUNA is a 5-year clinical trial that leverages the existing trust between behavioral health clinicians and their patients to address vaccine hesitancy in Latinx adults with mental illness. Using a multi-period, crossover design, behavioral health clinicians at EBNHC will be trained to use motivational interviewing to engage Latinx clients in conversations about COVID-19 and influenza vaccination in the context of their counseling sessions. For clients interested in receiving a vaccine, the clinician will do a â??warm hand offâ? to a nurse onsite to administer the vaccine. While the study is not designed as an implementation science study, there are many opportunities to integrate implementation science research questions. We seek an energetic and creative scholar who has extensive expertise in implementation science to spearhead this process.
Responsibilities: The f Postdoctoral Research Fellow will primarily be responsible for developing and integrating novel implementation science research questions into the study, identifying appropriate theories and measures, writing supplemental grants, and drafting implementation science-focused manuscripts. As a member of a vibrant and diverse research team, including investigators, students and research staff from Boston College, Boston Childrenâ??s Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health, the successful candidate will also play a key role in planning research activities, managing the data housed at Boston College (i.e., survey and interview data), mentoring undergraduate and doctoral students from a range of disciplines, drafting manuscripts and presenting at research conferences.
Mentorship: Dr. Kirsten Davison, who is a Professor and the Associate Dean for Research in Social Work, will serve as the primary mentor. Dr. Davison has extensive experience developing and evaluating community-based interventions for the health and wellbeing children and adults from populations with a history of marginalization. She has a successful history of mentoring doctoral and postdoctoral trainees from a range of disciplines (public health, nutrition, social work) and was the principal investigator on a T32 cancer prevention training grant when she was on the faculty at Harvard School of Public Health. Additionally, Dr. Davison was a fellow in the Institute for Implementation Scholars 2 (IS-2) training program from 2020-2022.
Timeline and application process: This position is available starting as early as February but no later than August 2023. Qualified international applicants are welcome to apply; an appropriate training visa will be required. Pending a one-year review and appropriate work authorization documentation, it is expected that the position will be available for at least 2 years. This is a full-time research position. While Dr. Davison will provide professional mentorship and direction on responsibilities and deliverables, the Postdoctoral Research Fellow will work independently and have considerable latitude in determining time allocation to tasks and the process to achieve expected outcomes.
Requirements
The successful candidate will have a PhD in public health, social work, health services or a related field, in combination with training in implementation science and a history of collaboration with implementation science scholars. They will also have experience collecting, cleaning and analyzing quantitative data and a successful history of publishing first-author, peer reviewed publications for implementation science audiences (e.g., in Implementation Science, Translational Behavioral Medicine, BMC Health Services Research).
Closing Statement
Boston College offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:
- Tuition remission for Employees
- Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements
- Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Low-Cost Life Insurance
- Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans
- Paid Holidays Annually
- Generous Sick and Vacation Pay
- Additional benefits can be found on https://www.bc.edu/employeehandbook
Boston College conducts pre-employment background checks as part of the hiring process and requires all employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Boston College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. In concert with our Jesuit, Catholic mission, Boston College is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications for women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and covered veterans. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at https://www.bc.edu/offices/diversity .
Boston College's Notice of Nondiscrimination can be viewed at https://www.bc.edu/nondiscrimination .
Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,445 full-time undergraduates and 5,125 graduate and professional students. Ranked 35 among national universities, Boston College has 878 full-time and 1,201 FTE faculty, 2,750 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.2 billion, and an endowment in excess of $2.8 billion.
Job Description
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow Minimum Stipend: $54,835
Study description and training context: Seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with extensive expertise in implementation science to work under the direction of Dr. Kirsten Davison on the MI VACUNA (Motivational Interviewing for VACcine Uptake in latiNx Adults) study. Funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research, and in collaboration with East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC), MI VACUNA is a 5-year clinical trial that leverages the existing trust between behavioral health clinicians and their patients to address vaccine hesitancy in Latinx adults with mental illness. Using a multi-period, crossover design, behavioral health clinicians at EBNHC will be trained to use motivational interviewing to engage Latinx clients in conversations about COVID-19 and influenza vaccination in the context of their counseling sessions. For clients interested in receiving a vaccine, the clinician will do a â??warm hand offâ? to a nurse onsite to administer the vaccine. While the study is not designed as an implementation science study, there are many opportunities to integrate implementation science research questions. We seek an energetic and creative scholar who has extensive expertise in implementation science to spearhead this process.
Responsibilities: The f Postdoctoral Research Fellow will primarily be responsible for developing and integrating novel implementation science research questions into the study, identifying appropriate theories and measures, writing supplemental grants, and drafting implementation science-focused manuscripts. As a member of a vibrant and diverse research team, including investigators, students and research staff from Boston College, Boston Childrenâ??s Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health, the successful candidate will also play a key role in planning research activities, managing the data housed at Boston College (i.e., survey and interview data), mentoring undergraduate and doctoral students from a range of disciplines, drafting manuscripts and presenting at research conferences.
Mentorship: Dr. Kirsten Davison, who is a Professor and the Associate Dean for Research in Social Work, will serve as the primary mentor. Dr. Davison has extensive experience developing and evaluating community-based interventions for the health and wellbeing children and adults from populations with a history of marginalization. She has a successful history of mentoring doctoral and postdoctoral trainees from a range of disciplines (public health, nutrition, social work) and was the principal investigator on a T32 cancer prevention training grant when she was on the faculty at Harvard School of Public Health. Additionally, Dr. Davison was a fellow in the Institute for Implementation Scholars 2 (IS-2) training program from 2020-2022.
Timeline and application process: This position is available starting as early as February but no later than August 2023. Qualified international applicants are welcome to apply; an appropriate training visa will be required. Pending a one-year review and appropriate work authorization documentation, it is expected that the position will be available for at least 2 years. This is a full-time research position. While Dr. Davison will provide professional mentorship and direction on responsibilities and deliverables, the Postdoctoral Research Fellow will work independently and have considerable latitude in determining time allocation to tasks and the process to achieve expected outcomes.
Requirements
The successful candidate will have a PhD in public health, social work, health services or a related field, in combination with training in implementation science and a history of collaboration with implementation science scholars. They will also have experience collecting, cleaning and analyzing quantitative data and a successful history of publishing first-author, peer reviewed publications for implementation science audiences (e.g., in Implementation Science, Translational Behavioral Medicine, BMC Health Services Research).
Closing Statement
Boston College offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:
- Tuition remission for Employees
- Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements
- Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Low-Cost Life Insurance
- Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans
- Paid Holidays Annually
- Generous Sick and Vacation Pay
- Additional benefits can be found on https://www.bc.edu/employeehandbook
Boston College conducts pre-employment background checks as part of the hiring process and requires all employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Boston College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. In concert with our Jesuit, Catholic mission, Boston College is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications for women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and covered veterans. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at https://www.bc.edu/offices/diversity .
Boston College's Notice of Nondiscrimination can be viewed at https://www.bc.edu/nondiscrimination .
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