Job Description

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Join the team who values your skills and expertise. Cherokee Nation Assurance (CNA) serves federal clients through a wide variety of health care and life sciences services. Through well-administered, well-coordinated programs, CNA takes a personalized approach with its clients, large and small. This approach gives customers the support they deserve and the quality they expect from a team that can handle every detail - a team of experts, like you.

Cherokee Nation Assurance is part of Cherokee Federal - a team of tribally owned federal contracting companies focused on building solutions, solving complex challenges, and serving the nation\'s mission around the globe for more than 60 federal clients. For more information, visit cherokee-federal.com.

SUMMARY

The Technology Transfer and Research Management Support Specialist will assist Cherokee\'s Government client to develop technology transfer agreements to enable new medical products to be developed for the military and provides research proposal support to scientists which enables advancement of medical technologies.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Monitors advancements in information privacy technologies to ensure organizational adaptation and compliance.
• Review and evaluate intellectual property (IP) disclosure documentation for accuracy and completeness
• Assist inventors with their invention disclosures
• Review and evaluate intellectual property (IP) held by partner as well as in-house IP to determine the possibility of new IP and value of the collaboration
• Process, track, and revise agreements in support investigator\'s collaborations with parties within and outside the Federal government
• Serve as the point of contact for incoming request forms for agreements including CRADAs, MTAs, Collaborative agreements, SLAs, IAAs, DSAs, and others.
• Coordinate a weekly meeting to review potential collaborations by developing agenda that is sent to participants, attend meetings and discuss the proposed collaborations, and maintain records including meeting minutes and due outs, adding information to databases and tracking them for future reference
• Perform background and commercial market research on technologies needing a commercial partner
• Participate in the development, implementation, and ongoing compliance monitoring of all partner and business associate agreements, to ensure all privacy concerns, requirements, and responsibilities are addressed
• Initiates, facilitates and promotes activities to foster information privacy awareness within the organization and related entities.
• Coordinate a weekly meeting to review potential collaborations by developing agenda that is sent to participants, attend meetings and discuss the proposed collaborations, and maintain records including meeting minutes and due outs, adding information to databases and tracking them for future reference
• Perform background and commercial market research on technologies needing a commercial partner
• Participate in the development, implementation, and ongoing compliance monitoring of all partner and business associate agreements, to ensure all privacy concerns, requirements, and responsibilities are addressed
• Initiates, facilitates and promotes activities to foster information privacy awareness within the organization and related entities.
• Works with all organization personnel involved with any aspect of release of protected health information related to the research being done at the hospital, to ensure full coordination and cooperation under the organization\'s policies and procedures and legal requirements.
• Assists with other laboratory or outreach projects as needed. This includes working with other members on special projects and assignments.
• Pre- and full proposal management and tracking duties which includes:

• 1) coordination of grant submissions in a timely manner,
• 2) coordination of review of proposals submitted in response to the BAA/PA,
• 3) review of all pertinent documents to ensure recipient compliance with established administrative and financial policies and procedures and sound business practices,
• 4) Assist Investigators with research proposal submission processes
• 5) work with internal PIs and external partners/collaborators on preparation of proposal documentation
• 6) monitor the research award decision process

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• MS or BS Degree in Health Science, Allied Science, or related field
• 1-3 years of experience in a preclinical and/or clinical study-related research environment

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Experience or demonstrated knowledge of technology transfer, working knowledge of Federal technology transfer legislation and policies.
• Working Knowledge of technology transfer
• Working knowledge of Federal technology transfer legislation and policies.
• Must be a US citizen
• Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance.
• Must be able to pass a drug screen and background investigation.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Work will be performed in a climate-controlled office environment and via Telework.

Estimated Starting Salary Range: $80,000.00- 92,000.00 annually

CNA offers a competitive benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans for regular full-time employees, 401(k) with 100% match up to 6%, life insurance, paid time off and more. Paid sick leave is provided in accordance with applicable law.

Cherokee Federal has suspended it\'s COVID mandate. However, it\'s important to note that Cherokee Federal employees are included as covered employees in U.S. Presidential Executive Order 14042, which mandates Covid vaccines for federal contractors. Executive Order 14042 is currently not subject to enforcement by the Federal government. Therefore, Cherokee Federal has suspended application of the mandate and continues to monitor the government\'s guidance on administration of any vaccine requirement.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Cherokee Federal is a collective group of subsidiary companies of Cherokee Nation Businesses (CNB). CNB is the economic engine of Cherokee Nation, the largest Native American tribe in the U.S. As a trusted partner, the Cherokee Federal team of companies manages nearly 2,000 projects of all sizes across the construction, engineering and manufacturing, and mission solutions portfolios - ranging from advanced data analytics and telehealth to cybersecurity, cloud and logistics.

Since 2012, our team of companies has won $6 billion in government contracts and completed more than 5,300 federal missions. Our 3,600+ employees work in 20+ countries, 50 states and 2 U.S. territories.

Why Cherokee Federal? Visit to learn why you should join our team!

COMPLIANCE

Cherokee Federal is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to prohibiting discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, union affiliation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We conform to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations governing all aspects of the relationship between the Company and its employees, including, but not limited to, recruitment, employment, promotion, transfer, training, working conditions, wages and salary administration, employee benefits, and application of policies. The policies and principles of EEO also apply to the selection and treatment of independent contractors, personnel working on our premises who are employed by temporary agencies and any other persons or firms doing business for or with the Company.

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