Castner Incorporated
Job Posting: Coordinator of Professional Development (Part-time, 40-50% position, for 6 months)
Castner Incorporated
1879 Whitehaven Road, #150
Grand Island, NY 17072
https://castnerincorporated.com/
IMPORTANT DATES
Job posted January 14, 2024. Earliest start date is February 1, 2024. Position open until filled.
INTRODUCTION
Castner Incorporated is seeking a Coordinator of Professional Development for 40-50% effort for a six-month period to implement the third year of an ongoing, federally funded project (EHRI-NCS Workshop). The project includes online course material and 5-days of real-time hands-on workshop. The ideal candidate is an experienced event coordinator and familiar with nursing professional development and environmental health research communities.
LOCATION
Remote work with additional 3-5 days of travel to our scheduled in-person workshop in Niagara Falls, New York between July 21-25, 2024. We anticipate 90% of this job will be conducted remotely, utilizing videoconferencing technology and web-based software. Castner Incorporated’s offices are located on Grand Island New York with a public mailing address that appears on the initial page of this posting.
CONTACT
Email strongly preferred
Jessica Castner jcastner@castnerincorp.com
716-417-7360
JOB DESCRIPTION
Coordinator will update and maintain the virtual classroom content, coordinate and communicate with participants and faculty, and coordinate details of in-person educational events. Coordinator will implement all processes and procedures to maintain compliance with Federal and Non-Federal Agency Sponsor requirements, as established by currently written protocols and proposals.
QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience with event coordination/conference planning required
• Excellent and professional written and verbal communication skills required
• Experience with virtual/remote work required
• Must not be presently debarred, suspended or otherwise excluded from participating in Federally funded grant projects (required)
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Demonstrated creativity, enthusiasm, and teamwork required
• Experience in the professional development of nurses (formal or informal clinical precepting, clinical professional development, higher education) strongly preferred
• Master’s degree in related field (nursing, public health, education, basic science) strongly preferred
• Registered Professional Nurse (RN) strongly preferred
• Experience with virtual classroom management strongly preferred
JOB DUTIES
• Working collaboratively with Dr. Castner and program faculty, assume the responsibility operationalize and update annual workshop program(s) from a pre-existing written proposal/plan and previously delivered courses/course evaluations
• Organize, implement, and document evaluation of the program among annual cohorts of participants (currently in the third cohort)
• Direct participant recruitment and enrollment efforts
• Manage faculty and participant compliance with responsible conduct of research, unconscious bias training, and other pre-course entry requirements
• Manage all faculty updates and refreshed content for the virtual Google classroom and YouTube channel, assuming responsibility for the participant-facing classroom components
• Direct workshop alumni updates and communications
• Coordinate faculty meetings and annual advisory committee meeting
• Serve as the main point of contact and coordinator for faculty and participant activities in the asynchronous virtual classroom, annual in-person, real-time workshop (5 days), and related event planning, coordination and logistics
• Organize and implement the in-person workshop through coordination with the venue, attending to meals and transportation planning and coordination, communicating with participants, and supply inventory/ordering/shipments
• Other duties as assigned to implement the EHRI-NCS workshop as proposed in the original request for federal assistance.
COMPENSATION
• This position will be supported with an hourly wage
• Negotiable benefits package
• Joint appointments will be considered on a case-by-case basis
• Employees are paid monthly
INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLY
Please send a 1) resume, 2) cover letter, 3) brief (200-500 word) narrative of skills in coordinating conferences or educational workshops for adult learners 4) contact information for 2-5 personal references to Rose Marie Castner at rmcastner@castnerincorp.com. Use “EHRI-NCS Workshop Coordinator” in the email subject line.
Note that resumes should be submitted in PDF form.
ABOUT THE EHRI-NCS WORKSHOP
The goal of the Environmental Health Research Institute for Nurse and Clinician Scientists (EHRI-NCS) is to enhance the discipline-wide capacity of nurse scientists and their interdisciplinary clinician scientist collaborators for advanced research methods in environmental health through a flipped classroom, train-the-trainer and mentorship program. Using a train-the-trainer approach, we welcome PhD, DNP, MD, PharmD, EdD, equivalent doctorate prepared and graduate student participants who are educating/will educate nurse scientists. Supported by NIH/NIEHS funding, we launched the program in 2022 and will engage the contractor in this program after the 2nd cohort has met for our real-time workshop. We anticipate enrolling 32 participants each year in this core program for 2024-2026. We are planning the launch of additional, related workshops and cohort events that may support additional effort as desired/initiated by the coordinator. The 2024 workshop schedule can be found on the Castner Incorporated website.
ABOUT CASTNER INCORPORATED
Castner Incorporated is a New York State Woman-Owned Small Business Enterprise founded in March of 2018 with a mission of “Creating healthy environments by generating new knowledge and data-driven approaches for where people live, work, play, and learn.” Castner Incorporated utilizes a largely tele-commute, visiting laboratory, and sub-contracting business model that includes access to videoconferencing technology. Our project-by-project collaborative agreements and support enable Castner Incorporated research to merge and affiliate with institutions with the top rankings for research metrics. Castner Incorporated belongs to the Cattaraugus County APEX Accelerator/Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) with extensive collaboration and support from the US Small Business Administration, Buffalo District Office. As an APEX/PTAC affiliate, Castner Incorporated also received free professional development access with expert help consulting support from Govology.
Non-discrimination: Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
Castner Incorporated
Job Posting: Data Analytics Intern
The ideal candidate is seeking training, experience, and mentoring in scientific and clinical research, and plan to pursue a future degree in science, health, or a related field.
Required knowledge and skills
- Data visualizations programming/coding using R or Python
- Machine learning programming/coding using R or Python
- Data management
- Knowledge of and willingness to utilized educational software which may include Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Office, Google Apps for education, video editing software, video hosting platforms, and website software
- Excellent and professional written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with Google Classroom as a student, intern, or instructor preferred
Responsibilities
- Generate publishing quality data visualizations from existing data using R software
- Data entry
- Dataset management
- Develop and test initial programming code for basic machine learning applications using R software
- Review and verify of data tables and figures for accuracy
- Other duties as assigned
- Opportunities may include contributing to advanced data analysis and writing scientific manuscripts for publication under supervision and guidance
Desirable qualifications
- High school student or above
- Demonstrated creativity, enthusiasm, and teamwork
- Completed coursework or projects in computer programming, particularly using R or Python
- Excellent grades and performance in math and science courses
- Programming experience in developing and/or troubleshooting customer facing software applications
- Experience programming in Django, Javascript, or equivalent
- Experience with Cerner and/or Epic EMR sandbox with SMART on FHIR compatible demonstration code
Typical tasks and expectations
- Seasonal, limited duration
- Available at regularly scheduled intervals after school, on weekends, and during school breaks.
Compensation
- This position will be supported with an hourly wage
- As a seasonal, occasional, and part-time position, this position is not offered with benefits at this time.
Hours are expected on evenings, weekends, summer, and school vacation times to accommodate secondary education and/or higher education schedules.
Location: Virtual
Please send a 1) resume, 2) cover letter, 3) example of a completed project using R or Python programming language, and 4) contact information for 2-5 personal references to Rose Marie Castner at rmcastner@castnerincorp.com. Use “Data Analytics Intern” in the email subject line.
Note that resumes should be submitted in PDF form.
Non-discrimination: Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
Castner Incorporated
1879 Whitehaven Road, #150
Grand Island, NY 17072
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IMPORTANT DATES
Open until filled
ABOUT CASTNER INCORPORATED
Castner Incorporated is a New York State Woman-Owned Small Business Enterprise founded in March of 2018 with a mission of “Creating healthy environments by generating new knowledge and data-driven approaches for where people live, work, play, and learn.” We represent the 5th and 6th generation of a deeply-rooted family in Buffalo, New York, building on a legacy of successful and committed entrepreneurs, educators, and civil servants. A forerunning research-intensive institution with a foundation in environmental health nursing science expertise, Castner Incorporated is uniquely poised to overcome the contemporary pervasive, and seemingly intractable, barriers to the advancement of women in science. Castner Incorporated utilizes a largely tele-commute, visiting laboratory, and sub-contracting business model that includes access to videoconferencing technology. Our visiting laboratory model and extensive collaborations are built on lean sigma six principles to optimize effort, laboratory space, and equipment. Our project-by-project collaborative agreements and support enable Castner Incorporated research to merge and affiliate with institutions with the top rankings for research metrics. Castner Incorporated belongs to the Cattaraugus County Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) with extensive collaboration and support from the US Small Business Administration, Buffalo District Office. As a PTAC affiliate, Castner Incorporated also received free professional development access with expert help consulting support from Govology.