Postdoctoral Fellow in Suicide Prevention Training

Postdoctoral Fellow in Suicide Prevention Training Position Information

• Position Number: POST
  40
• Working Title:
  
  Postdoctoral Fellow in Suicide Prevention Training
• Division:
  Academic Affairs
• Department:
  College of Health & Human Service (Col)
• Work Unit:
  Epidemiology and Community Health
• Employment Type:
  
  Temporary - Full-time
• Hours per week: 40
• Pay Range: $60,000 - $70,000
• Vacancy Open To:
  All Candidates

The Postdoctoral appointee must have recently (within the last eight years) been awarded a Ph.D. or equivalent doctorate (e.g., Sc.D., M.D.). Demonstrated experience and interest in mental health, suicide prevention, health professions training, and/or military health, as demonstrated through any or all of the following:

• A record of scholarly publication and presentation in these areas
• Suicide or military lived experience (e.g., active duty military service)
• Work experience in mental health, suicide prevention, health professions training, and/or military health focused settings

Experience in quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods, as demonstrated through any or all of the following:

• Competency in statistical programs, such as SPSS, R, STATA, or MPlus
• Competency in qualitative software, such as NVivo, Dedoose, or MaxQDA
• A record of publication including data cleaning (e.g., multiple imputation) and analysis (e.g., thematic analysis, repeated measures analysis) experience
• Familiarity with virtual data collection platforms (e.g., Red Cap, Qualtrics)

Comfort and demonstrated ability in all of the following:

• Developing training curricula and programs
• Written and oral communication
• A team science model
• Collaborative approach to research and training
• Initiative, independence, and integrity
• Ability to work on sensitive subject matter in a mature manner

Ph.D. or equivalent in a field relevant to suicide prevention, military health, health professions training, and/or quantitative methods. Fields of interest include, but are not limited to, public health, psychology, sociology, social work, nursing, education, prevention science, statistics/decision sciences, epidemiology, and/or community health.

A Postdoctoral Fellow ("postdoc") is a professional apprenticeship designed to provide recent Ph.D. recipients with an opportunity to develop further the research skills acquired in their doctoral programs or to learn new research techniques, in preparation for an academic or research career. In the process of further developing their own research skills, it is expected that Postdoctoral Fellows will also play a significant role in the performance of research at the University and augment the role of graduate faculty in providing research instruction to graduate students.

A Postdoctoral Fellow works under the supervision of a regular faculty member, who serves as a mentor to the Fellow, and it is expected that the faculty mentor will impart the realities, and variety, of scientific careers, and will encourage experiences outside the laboratory to broaden postdocs' aspirations. Within the confines of the particular research focus assigned by that faculty member, the Postdoctoral Fellow functions with a considerable degree of independence and has the freedom (and is expected) to publish the results of his or her research or scholarship during the period of appointment.

Thus, the role of Postdoctoral Fellows is clearly differentiated from full-time technical employees.

As an EOE/AA employer and an ADVANCE Institution that strives to create an academic climate in which the dignity of all individuals is respected and maintained, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte encourages applications from all underrepresented groups. Applicants subject to criminal…