Laboratory Coordinator (School of Interactive Computing)

Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

The College of Computing was established in 1990 as the first such College at a public university and the second in the United States. Since that time, the college has grown into a world-class leader in research and education. The graduate CS program is currently ranked 6th and the undergraduate 5th nationally by U.S. News and World Report. The College consists of five Schools that provide specialized and general computing education to the entire campus. With over 16-degree programs, including its world-renowned online MS in CS, we believe the College to be the largest Computing unit in the United States and, as such, one of the largest producers of computationalist at all levels and of all demographic backgrounds. The College is a part of the Georgia Institute of Technology, a unit of the University System of Georgia and is primarily located in the heart of Atlanta, Georgia.

Coordinate all operations of an instructional or research laboratory to include instruction in lab procedures and safety, development of lab procedures and processes, conducting experiments, equipment and inventory maintenance and related recordkeeping and producing reports. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: Academic and/or research faculty members, staff and students, vendor/suppliers. This position will advise and counsel: students.

Job Duty 1
Instruct students on lab safety, protocols and procedures related to conducting experiments

Job Duty 2
Monitor lab expenses relative to budget; may generate billing for lab services, purchase equipment, materials and supplies and maintain inventory records

Job Duty 3
Maintain laboratory facility in safe, clean and organized manner

Job Duty 4
Update and develop instructional and safety related materials applicable to current and new experiments

Job Duty 5
Monitor lab equipment performance and usage; maintain equipment as required.

Additional Responsibilities

• Performing budget forecasting and helping with crew resource management (i.e., making sure the right researchers are assigned to the right projects at the right time to ensure we meet sponsor deliverable).
• Managing timelines and conducting sprint planning, sprint reviews, and scrum meetings (or alternative management strategies for software development).
• Helping to schedule and administrate lab activities (e.g., lab group and journal club meetings).
• Generating sponsored research reports to detail our research activities and plans.
• Interfacing with sponsors to help ensure researchers and sponsors alike are on the same page with clear to-do's, summaries, and after-action reports generated.
• Ensuring lab hardware (including robots, cameras, computers) are maintained and available to researchers.
• Planning social activities for the lab (the lab manager would be a part of these activities) for wellbeing.
• Helping to onboard new lab members.
• Helping to document "tribal knowledge" (e.g., items that Professor Gombolay teaches his mentees) on lab Wikipedia pages.
• Vetting Internal Review Board Protocols and ensuring compliance for human subject experiments.
• Maintaining and growing the laboratory website, wiki, and social media accounts.
• Copy-editing of papers and grants.
• Helping to change the world with robots :)

Educational Requirements
Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Other Required Qualifications
Current CPR/AED Certification, or ability to obtain certification within 30 days of her date. Current, nationally recognized certification in group fitness and/or personal training. Rates of pay may vary based on the type of activity the incumbent performs. Therefore, this job code is to be used only for those individuals working less than 50% time.

Required Experience
Three to five years job related experience

• Candor, trustworthiness, conscientiousness, discretion, responsibility, and a desire to communicate.
• Detail-oriented, highly accurate, able to meet deadlines, and a desire to double and triple check work.
• Excellent communication skills, both written (e.g., technical reports, budgets, etc.) and oral (e.g., oral presentations and discussions)

Pay Information:

Hourly Range: $20.01 - $26.44 (Based on Experience)

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

This job requires application of technical processes and procedures applicable to assigned laboratory; communications and presentation; inventory management; lab equipment repair; budgeting, lab safety practices; PC operation and use of specialized application.

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. This prohibition applies to faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including affiliates, invitees, and guests.

This is not a supervisory position.
This position does not have any financial responsibilities.
This position will not be required to drive.
This role is not considered a position of trust.
This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).
This position will not travel
This position does not require security clearance.

Successful candidate must be able to pass a background check. Please visit http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening.