Purchasing Coordinator
Our department is seeking an applicant to coordinate and perform purchasing and contracting for the department and provide administrative support to the staff that coordinate the departmental inventory. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree with three years of relevant experience, excellent oral and written communication skills, experience with databases and working with confidential information and extensive experience using Excel and Adobe Acrobat software and comfortable with other software applications.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and perform purchasing and contracting for the department and research labs. Responsible for soliciting bids, securing specs, and presenting options for major purchases and contractual agreements for maintenance and services. This includes UT Market, PointPlus and departmental procurement card purchases. Serve as purchasing liaison with the Cockrell School Business Affairs Office, the university Office of Accounting, Purchasing, Accounts Payable, and other outside entities. Act as purchasing expert to provide advice and information to ensure Faculty are fully aware of their purchasing options to adhere to UT and procurement policy.
- Serve as the departmental Procurement Card (Procard) holder. Manages all departmental Procard documentation for accuracy.
- Serve as the primary back-up for the Department of Biomedical Engineering's Post-Award Accountant and Accounts Payable Admin.
- Work with vendors and central University offices to complete the onboarding process including processing PIFs, direct deposit forms, and address updates.
Salary Range: $55,000 + depending on qualifications.
Assistant Professor in Neuroengineering
Our department is seeking an applicant to fill one tenure-track, faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. We are interested in candidates who develop new technologies and methods that advance our understanding of the brain and neurological disorders. Areas of interest include computational neuroscience method development, neural engineering, novel devices and instrumentation for neuroscience applications, neuroimaging, neuromodulation, and translational neuroscience.
Qualifications
Required qualifications include a doctorate in engineering or a related field with a strong record of research accomplishments, publications, and funding appropriate for the applicant’s career stage. The successful candidate will be expected to teach core biomedical engineering courses and to create undergraduate and graduate learning environments that address the needs of students from a variety of socioeconomic and academic backgrounds, with differing learning styles and abilities. Further, the successful candidate will be expected to develop an externally sponsored research program, mentor graduate students, collaborate with other faculty, and have a commitment to university and professional service. We seek applicants who have a desire to build collaborations with research centers and institutes on campus such as the Oden Institute for Computational Science and Engineering, the Institute for Neuroscience, and Dell Medical School. Furthermore, the Department has strong clinical partnerships with several medical institutions across Texas, including MD Anderson Cancer Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, and UT Health Science Centers at Houston and San Antonio.
Application Instructions
Interested persons should include a cover letter expressing interest; a detailed curriculum vitae including academic and professional experience and peer reviewed publications (please include PDF copies of a maximum of your two most significant, peer-reviewed, published manuscripts); a statement of research summarizing past contributions to and future plans for neuroengineering research; a statement of teaching goals with emphasis on effective classroom practices; and the names and e-mail addresses of at least three references.
Applications received before November 1, 2024 will be given priority review.
Please direct inquiries to Brittain Sobey at b.sobey@utexas.edu
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