Director, Cancer Center Biobank

City of Hope

Duarte, CA

ID: 7265315 (Ref.No. 10027230)
Posted: 3 months ago
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled

Job Description

City of Hope in the Los Angeles metro area, one of the top five cancer hospitals in the country according to US News and World Report, is seeking a dynamic leader to develop and oversee a best-in-class biorepository and help to usher in a new era of collaborative research. This enterprise-wide initiative will leverage cutting-edge technology to integrate and strengthen biospecimen banking and data generation across the ever-growing City of Hope network encompassing multiple clinical sites across California, Phoenix, Chicago, and Atlanta. The biorepository is intended to be an institutional shared resource that accelerates basic, clinical, and translational research by providing dedicated staff for consenting, procurement, processing, storage, and shipment of research specimens and robust informatics solutions to centralize clinical annotations and results data critical to research in cancer, diabetes, and other diseases. This initiative will bring an invaluable new dimension to our research enterprise, enabling longitudinal research and unprecedented transparency for researchers to streamline and enhance data analysis.

The successful candidate:

Serves as a leader, innovator, coordinator, and change agent in the pursuit of strengthening biobanking operations.
Oversees the development of the system-wide biorepository, including planning, organizing, staffing, influencing, and controlling process for research participant recruitment, consenting, specimen procurement and accessioning, and clinical annotation.
Partners with onsite teams of Lab Managers and Technicians, Biospecimen Coordinators, Data Managers and Project Managers to create, design, and implement systems, processes and policies while maintaining the mission, vision, and values of City of Hope.
Ensures compliance with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines, and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

Your qualifications: 

Doctorate degree in a scientific discipline with 3-5 years of experience supporting biobanking in the cancer/diabetes setting.
Proven, robust experience in supporting team science grants (SPORE, P01) for tissue cores.
Experience with regulatory compliance, biorepository operations and lab accreditations (CLIA, CAP).
Strong leadership experience and ability to build and interface with multidisciplinary and cross-departmental teams.
Experience with research informatics and laboratory information management system development for samples/clinical annotation.

About Us

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. 

To learn more about our world-renowned, research centers, institutes, and labs and to see current research news: City of Hope Research & Innovation.

City of Hope is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer.

The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.

City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.

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