by Ronald Barron | Jun 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Executive Editor
Location: United States – Remote
Full Time
The Opportunity: Executive Editor, Popular Science
Popular Science is hiring an Executive Editor to lead our Science, Technology, and DIY teams and help run our expanding features program. We’re looking for a seasoned science and/or technology journalist with experience managing editorial teams, who can guide and challenge our editors and writers on a day-to-day basis. The Executive Editor will work side-by-side with the Editor-in-Chief on developing, refining, and leading editorial content strategy for the 150-year-old brand. They’ll also spearhead special editorial projects and work with the EIC on long-lead story planning, including themed packages, quarterly digital editions, and our expanding PopSci+ storytelling.
We’re looking for a sharp editorial leader with a passion for exploring the intersection of science and technology with everyday life. We want someone who sees the big picture, with a track record of developing compelling stories and strategies across various editorial platforms and formatsfrom simple blog posts and long-form narrative features to podcast segments and newsletters. The Executive Editor also has to be comfortable getting into the weeds, making dozens of quick, authoritative decisions a day, directing content in a way that balances the news of the day with Popular Science‘s mission to delight and inform.
The Executive Editor will report to the Editor-in-Chief. Popular Science is a part of Recurrent Ventures, a virtual-first workplace with offices in New York, San Francisco, Austin, and Miami
Join the team that was voted a Great Place to Work!
The Responsibilities:
- Oversee Science, Tech, and DIY department leads
- Help shape popsci.com content strategy, and guide day-to-day story assignments to expand PopSci’s audience and overall reach
- Ensure all content aligns with PopSci‘s editorial voice and mission
- Monitor daily, weekly, and monthly popsci.com content performance
- Assign, edit, and top edit features and feature packages
- Top edit sensitive, high-impact, or high-value stories, as needed
- Work with the EIC to manage and prioritize the popsci.com contributor budget
The Qualifications:
- 8+ years of journalism experience, including some background in science or technologyor both
- Experience managing editors and writers in a digital newsroom, including mentoring new managers and early-career writers
- A solid rolodex of freelance science and tech writers
- A portfolio of work that includes editorial packages, and short- and long-form journalism
- Familiarity with SEO best practices, or an eagerness to learn and implement them
- A track record of spearheading the type of high-quality editorial initiatives and special projects that get noticed
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, and evolving, startup-like environment
The Person:
- A nimble strategist, who’s comfortable shaping and refining strategies in order to reach KPIs
- An editorial Swiss Army Knife, who’s as at home writing a pithy newsletter blurb as they are structuring a 2,500-word feature
- A skilled storyteller, who’s able to spot the headlines PopSci should cover and also generate a fountain of ideas for creative angles that set our stories apart
- A good listener, who checks the pulse of the newsroom and helps keep the editorial team energized
- A human BS detector, able to dig into the details that separate a good story from a great one
The Benefits & Perks:
- Medical, dental, vision & life insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote – work from anywhere
- Parental leave up to 16 weeks
- Fitness reimbursement
- Monthly electronics stipend
- Matching 401k
- Equity package
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Data Manager
Location: United States
C: 41.65
Overview
This is a work from home position that can be worked remotely from anywhere in the United States
Senior and Principal levels are available depending on experience
The Lead Clinical Data Manager (Lead) will have experience in all required areas of a Lead Data Manager. The Lead is responsible for the data management project oversight resulting in quality and accuracy of the database for a clinical study. The Lead is the primary data management contact for the project and may also coordinate the work across multiple projects for a client program.
Advanced Clinical is a global clinical development organization that provides CRO, FSP, Quality & Validation, and Strategic Resourcing services for biopharmaceutical and medical device organizations. Our mission is to deliver a better clinical experience for our clients. With global experience in over 50 countries, we are committed to improving all lives touched by clinical research. We understand the complex nature of the clinical research industry and approach each opportunity with compassion. Together, we answer the hopes of patients and healthcare professionals with industry-leading services in global life-sciences. As part of the Advanced Group family of companies, Advanced Clinical employees provide the support, structure, and professional background and experience for better clinical trials and research. They are the foundation of our energetic and collaborative environment, where constant learning and service to others take top priority. We seek dynamic, hard-working team members who are inspired to work amongst diverse backgrounds and perspectives. From our altruistic mission to outstanding career development opportunities, there’s no better place to grow your career than Advanced Clinical.
Responsibilities
- Exceed expectations and responsibilities of a Lead Data Manager
- Serve as primary point of contact for data management projects
- May serve as Biometrics lead for stand-alone studies including data management and biostatistics services
- Coordinate and ensure the accuracy and completeness of activities for data management assigned study team members
- Create material and present at study kick-off meetings, investigator meetings, client meetings, etc.
- Author and maintain all project start-up documents; including, but not limited to: eCRFs, eCRF Completion Guidelines, Data Management Plan, Edit Check Specifications
- Perform/provide oversight of user acceptance testing for assigned projects
- Create and maintain project timelines
- Prepare data transfer agreements & coordinate the receipt of data transfers
- Author all database lock documentation for assigned projects
- Prepare all data cleaning and data status documentation; including, but not limited to metric reports, custom reports, data review listings, reconciliation reports, clean patient tracker, etc.
- Responsible for project budget oversight, revenue recognition, forecasting and billing/invoicing review/approval
- Serve as subject matter expert
- Provide training and mentoring for other Leads and Clinical Data Associates
- Proactively monitor scope of work to actual work, alerting management of potential change orders or resourcing needs
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Strong understanding of departmental and company procedures; ability to guide others on procedures
- Participate in the development and revision of department SOPs
Business Development
- May support the business development process; RFI completion, proposal development, bid defense participation, attendance at industry/scientific meetings, etc
Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years direct data management experience in pharmaceutical development or CRO environment
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred. Work experience may be substituted for degree
- Working knowledge of CDASH standards
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, organizational skills, and attention to detail are required
Role Competencies:
- Maintains a focus on key priorities and deliverables, staying resilient in the face of pressure.
- Uses challenges and new situations as an opportunity to learn and improve. Understands own “facts” and “stories” when in dialogue, and the impact leadership style can have on outcomes.
- Actively listens and learns from others, demonstrating patience and consideration for others’ concerns or frustrations. Asks questions for clarification and ensures message is understood. Takes time to digest what is heard before responding.
- Visible, approachable, and accessible. Encourages input and participation from colleagues to solve problems and innovate. Provides correct balance of direction and support to staff and colleagues according to each situation. Understands differences, anticipates areas of conflict and takes action.
- Evaluates and measures current processes. Works with a view of the future, prioritizing work in line with organizational objectives. Improves processes to maximize use of resources.
- Seeks opportunities to develop professional skills and knowledge and encourages team to do so. Supports and directs where appropriate, including recognizing achievements and providing constructive feedback and guidance. Cross-train others to broaden experience and develop potential.
- Translates major new directives into individual performance expectations. Explains and convinces others of the need for adaptation and change of policies, structures, and methods.
- Is comfortable facing issues with team members quickly and directly. Is willing to choose an approach that has not been tried before, or a leadership style that feels less comfortable if the situation demands it. Takes personal risks regularly and is not afraid to express bold opinions if the intention and motive is good.
- Consistently reflects the REAL values and inspires team to live and work by these values.
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Lead Clinical Data Manager
Location: United States
C: 41.65
Overview
This is a work from home position that can be worked remotely from anywhere in the United States
Senior and Principal levels are available depending on experience
The Lead Clinical Data Manager (Lead) will have experience in all required areas of a Lead Data Manager. The Lead is responsible for the data management project oversight resulting in quality and accuracy of the database for a clinical study. The Lead is the primary data management contact for the project and may also coordinate the work across multiple projects for a client program.
Advanced Clinical is a global clinical development organization that provides CRO, FSP, Quality & Validation, and Strategic Resourcing services for biopharmaceutical and medical device organizations. Our mission is to deliver a better clinical experience for our clients. With global experience in over 50 countries, we are committed to improving all lives touched by clinical research. We understand the complex nature of the clinical research industry and approach each opportunity with compassion. Together, we answer the hopes of patients and healthcare professionals with industry-leading services in global life-sciences. As part of the Advanced Group family of companies, Advanced Clinical employees provide the support, structure, and professional background and experience for better clinical trials and research. They are the foundation of our energetic and collaborative environment, where constant learning and service to others take top priority. We seek dynamic, hard-working team members who are inspired to work amongst diverse backgrounds and perspectives. From our altruistic mission to outstanding career development opportunities, there’s no better place to grow your career than Advanced Clinical.
Responsibilities
- Exceed expectations and responsibilities of a Lead Data Manager
- Serve as primary point of contact for data management projects
- May serve as Biometrics lead for stand-alone studies including data management and biostatistics services
- Coordinate and ensure the accuracy and completeness of activities for data management assigned study team members
- Create material and present at study kick-off meetings, investigator meetings, client meetings, etc.
- Author and maintain all project start-up documents; including, but not limited to: eCRFs, eCRF Completion Guidelines, Data Management Plan, Edit Check Specifications
- Perform/provide oversight of user acceptance testing for assigned projects
- Create and maintain project timelines
- Prepare data transfer agreements & coordinate the receipt of data transfers
- Author all database lock documentation for assigned projects
- Prepare all data cleaning and data status documentation; including, but not limited to metric reports, custom reports, data review listings, reconciliation reports, clean patient tracker, etc.
- Responsible for project budget oversight, revenue recognition, forecasting and billing/invoicing review/approval
- Serve as subject matter expert
- Provide training and mentoring for other Leads and Clinical Data Associates
- Proactively monitor scope of work to actual work, alerting management of potential change orders or resourcing needs
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Strong understanding of departmental and company procedures; ability to guide others on procedures
- Participate in the development and revision of department SOPs
Business Development
- May support the business development process; RFI completion, proposal development, bid defense participation, attendance at industry/scientific meetings, etc
Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years direct data management experience in pharmaceutical development or CRO environment
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred. Work experience may be substituted for degree
- Working knowledge of CDASH standards
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, organizational skills, and attention to detail are required
Role Competencies:
- Maintains a focus on key priorities and deliverables, staying resilient in the face of pressure.
- Uses challenges and new situations as an opportunity to learn and improve. Understands own “facts” and “stories” when in dialogue, and the impact leadership style can have on outcomes.
- Actively listens and learns from others, demonstrating patience and consideration for others’ concerns or frustrations. Asks questions for clarification and ensures message is understood. Takes time to digest what is heard before responding.
- Visible, approachable, and accessible. Encourages input and participation from colleagues to solve problems and innovate. Provides correct balance of direction and support to staff and colleagues according to each situation. Understands differences, anticipates areas of conflict and takes action.
- Evaluates and measures current processes. Works with a view of the future, prioritizing work in line with organizational objectives. Improves processes to maximize use of resources.
- Seeks opportunities to develop professional skills and knowledge and encourages team to do so. Supports and directs where appropriate, including recognizing achievements and providing constructive feedback and guidance. Cross-train others to broaden experience and develop potential.
- Translates major new directives into individual performance expectations. Explains and convinces others of the need for adaptation and change of policies, structures, and methods.
- Is comfortable facing issues with team members quickly and directly. Is willing to choose an approach that has not been tried before, or a leadership style that feels less comfortable if the situation demands it. Takes personal risks regularly and is not afraid to express bold opinions if the intention and motive is good.
- Consistently reflects the REAL values and inspires team to live and work by these values.
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Business Analyst
Location: US-Remote
C: 4.06
POSITION TYPE: Full-time
Posting Description
GovCIO is a team of transformers–people who are passionate about transforming government I.T. We believe in making a difference by developing digital strategies and delivering the technology-related innovation that improves governmental operations each day.
But we can’t do it alone. We welcome and nurture an inclusive and diversified work culture. Because different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives make us better decision-makers, problem solvers, and creators. We’re changing the face of I.T. – from our diverse staff to the end-products we develop. And we’re excited to expand our team. Are you ready to be a transformer?
Job Overview
GovCIO is seeking a candidate for the position of Business Analyst to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This includes working with business partners to improve data communication and reporting abilities by assisting in the Business Understanding, Data Understanding, Data Preparation, Modeling, Evaluation, and Deployment processes of a centralized health reporting service. The environment is dynamic and client needs are often evolving; flexibility and forward-thinking views are important for success.
Responsibilities
- Work with your team of subject matter experts, business analysts, change managers, and technical communications specialists to prioritize and ingest health data from a variety of VA sources to enable end-users to drive results through successful implementation of use cases
- Facilitate communications, decision making, and alignment across the different sets of stakeholders, VA leaders, and your team members to create the centralized health data repository and environment
- Assist in the build and support of a consolidated reporting data schema from 10+ health data stores including schema mapping and schema conflict resolution.
- Work closely with our technical communication specialists on internal and external communications.
- Help create and document product management and product delivery process.
- Document and understand the VA business process and support business process improvement.
- Use data, analytics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to drive decision-making.
- Support strategic planning by helping build an analysis framework for incubation initiative evaluation.
- Learn all about the VA and its high-level strategic objectives.
Qualifications
Required Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in engineering, or a related scientific or technical discipline is required
- 10 years of experience
- +8 years of additional experience may be substituted for education
- Must have experience planning, analyzing, and gathering project-related requirements
- Must have strong qualitative and quantitative analytical skills.
- Must have demonstrated strong experience juggling multiple priorities, often with tight deadlines.
- Experience with Agile and Scaled Agile Processes.
- Experience using Jira or similar tool
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience gathering requirements for creating data repositories
- Knowledge of health data modeling, health data mapping, and health data standards
- Knowledge of data transformation tools and techniques
- Knowledge of data quality assessments and remediation planning
- Experience presenting to senior leadership.
- 1 or more years’ experience within the VA.
- Ability to quickly grasp organizational program goals and objectives and correlate to key program events and milestones.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Good decision-making and interpersonal skills.
Compensation Range (In compliance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act for remote or positions located in CO)
$115,000 – $125,000
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Technical Advisor
Location: US-Remote
C: 4.06
POSITION TYPE: Full-time
Posting Description
GovCIO is a team of transformers–people who are passionate about transforming government I.T. We believe in making a difference by developing digital strategies and delivering the technology-related innovation that improves governmental operations each day.
But we can’t do it alone. We welcome and nurture an inclusive and diversified work culture. Because different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives make us better decision-makers, problem solvers, and creators. We’re changing the face of I.T. – from our diverse staff to the end-products we develop. And we’re excited to expand our team. Are you ready to be a transformer?
Job Overview
GovCIO is seeking a highly experienced technical architect/strategist to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Technology (OIT) Health Services Portfolio (HSP) PMO. You will work closely with senior managers of our customer other architects, business customers, and functional consultants to develop strategies to optimize current and future IT investments and solutions. This includes continuing a comprehensive review of the current state architecture of the customer’s IT systems, assessment of the current vision and plans, and maintaining a future state enterprise IT architecture as conditions change. You will lead a small team of Solution architects and other technical staff. You will use current information as well as your domain knowledge, skills, and experience to analyze information and implement proactive and consultative approaches for managing the Products. The environment is dynamic and client needs are evolving; flexibility and forward-thinking views are important for success.
Responsibilities
- Quickly develop a holistic view of the organization’s current IT architecture, business operations, in-flight technology modernization initiatives and future plans
- Build a trusted advisory relationship with the customer’s Technical Director
- Build/augment technology roadmaps and runways that align with higher organizational strategies and vision
- Manage and track technical data across products and teams for easy inquiry and in support of data calls
- Support and defend the Intake process for new work and change requests
- Leverage GovCIO resources across programs
- Monitor/interpret technology memos/policies/directives from higher leadership and recommend approaches
- Express and defend personal/team dissenting opinions with clarity and diplomacy
- Proactively and insightfully report/document delivery of value
- Lead a small team of Solution architects and other technical staff
Qualifications
Required Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or other related scientific or technical discipline
- 15 or more years of experience managing and providing technical development for complex IT organizations, large and small.
- Additional years of experience can be substituted for a degree
- Mature written, verbal, and visual communication with sensitivity to the perspectives, limitations, and needs of different audiences
- Demonstrated technical management experience
- Ability to distill/optimize/simplify complex concepts, diagrams, and reports for consumption by different audiences
- Critical thinking
- Systems thinking
- Excellent time management
- Expert Agilist
- Well-versed in DevSecOps culture, processes, measures, and tooling
- Experience in Visio and PowerPoint
- Experience in the design of enterprise technology
- Experience in developing future state architecture
- Experience in researching and documenting as-is architectures
- Experience in facilitating IT change management and configuration management processes
- Experience in developing and/or supporting feature-benefit and cost-benefit analyses
- Demonstrates ability to tailor recommendations into actionable implementation plans
- Solid experience with Microsoft and other collaborative tools including Teams, SharePoint, Jira, etc.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience supporting or leading within the Veterans Affairs Office of Information Technology, Veterans Benefits Administration, and/or Veterans Health Administration is a plus
- SAFe certified or significant experience in SAFe or a SAFe transformation
- Jira experience
- Mural, Invision Freehand, or other visual remote collaboration tools
- Cameo Enterprise Architect experience
- Experience in Visio and PowerPoint
- Experience in the design of enterprise technology
- Experience in developing future state architecture
Compensation Range (In compliance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act for remote or positions located in CO)
$150,000 – $160,000
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