Assistant Professor of Research

Kansas Health Science Center

Wichita (KS)

On-site

USD 95,000 - 140,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Generous paid time-off

Medical and dental coverage

Company-paid life and disability 보험

Retirement plan with employer contrib

Multiple FSAs

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development

Employee appreciation events

Job summary

Kansas Health Science University (KansasCOM) seeks an Assistant Professor of Research to expand a strong culture of scholarship across the institution. This role emphasizes hands-on mentorship, building research pipelines, and guiding students and faculty toward publishable outcomes.

The ideal candidate will manage multiple projects, provide methodological guidance, and help produce abstracts, posters, manuscripts, and grant-ready ideas, while contributing to teaching within the medical school

Qualifications

PhD in Public Health, Epidemiology, Population Health, or closely related field.
Demonstrated scholarly productivity including peer‑reviewed publications.
Experience mentoring students, trainees, or junior faculty in research.
Ability to independently manage multiple small‑scale research projects annually.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines.

Responsibilities

Mentor students and faculty through the full research process and refine research questions, study designs, IRB processes, data collection, analysis, and dissemination.
Keep multiple projects moving to ensure momentum toward presentations and publications.
Contribute to scholarly output through publications, abstracts, posters, and grant-ready concepts.
Support grant development and help shape ideas into fundable projects when appropriate.
Carry a modest teaching role related to research and scholarship within the medical school curriculum.

Skills

Scholarly mentorship

Communication skills

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Project management

Education

PhD in Public Health / Epidemiology

Job description

Job Description:

Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine is seeking a highly collaborative, productive, and mission-driven Assistant Professor of Research to help expand a strong culture of scholarship across the institution.

This is a hands-on, output-driven position for someone who thrives on mentoring others, building research pipelines, and helping students and faculty turn good ideas into meaningful scholarly work. The person in this role will partner closely with medical students, clinical faculty, and community collaborators to develop feasible, rigorous, and publishable projects that move efficiently from concept to completion.

This is not a purely theoretical research role. It is a high-engagement faculty position centered on daily mentorship, project momentum, and tangible academic outcomes. The ideal candidate will be someone who can manage multiple concurrent projects, provide strong methodological guidance, and consistently help others produce abstracts, posters, manuscripts, and grant-ready ideas.

Why This Role Matters

This position is designed to strengthen the institution’s research infrastructure by expanding mentorship capacity, increasing scholarly productivity, and supporting student and faculty success. The individual in this role will play a central part in building and sustaining an active pipeline of scholarships across the medical school.

Projects may include case reports, systematic and scoping reviews, retrospective chart reviews, pilot studies, survey-based studies, quality improvement initiatives, and community-based or population health research.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

Mentor students and faculty through the full research process

Provide hands-on support across all phases of scholarship, including:

refining research questions
selecting study designs
preparing IRB applications
coordinating data collection
supporting analysis and interpretation
developing abstracts and posters
drafting and revising manuscripts
guiding journal submission and dissemination

Keep projects moving

Manage multiple small-scale research and scholarly projects at once, helping ensure that promising ideas do not stall and that teams continue making measurable progress toward presentation and publication.

Build scholarly output

Contribute to an institutional culture that values productivity, rigor, and follow-through by helping generate:

peer-reviewed publications
conference presentations
posters
faculty and student scholarly products
grant-ready project concepts

Support grant development

Assist with internal and external grant development and help students and faculty shape scholarly ideas into fundable projects when appropriate.

Contribute to teaching

Carry a modest teaching role based on expertise and interest. Teaching may include lectures, workshops, small-group sessions, or other educational activities related to research and scholarship within the medical school curriculum.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a faculty member who is:

deeply collaborative and student-centered
highly organized and able to manage multiple active projects
comfortable working in an applied, fast-moving academic environment
skilled at translating ideas into feasible studies
committed to helping students and faculty publish their work
motivated by impact, mentorship, and institutional growth

This role is especially well suited for someone who enjoys the day-to‑day work of mentoring others and helping them produce meaningful scholarships, rather than focusing solely on an independent research agenda.

QUALIFICATION(S):

Required Qualifications

PhD in Public Health, Epidemiology, Population Health, Health Services Research, Biostatistics, Statistics, Clinical Research, Community or Global Health, Implementation Science, Biomedical or Health Informatics, Medical Sociology, Behavioral Health, Health Policy, Health Professions Education, Clinical and Translational Science, or another closely related discipline relevant to applied health research and scholarship
Demonstrated scholarly productivity, including peer-reviewed publications and presentations
Experience mentoring students, trainees, or junior faculty in research or scholarly activity
Demonstrated ability to independently manage multiple small-scale research projects annually
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with medical students or in academic medicine
Experience mentoring clinical faculty in research or scholarly activity
Experience with IRB submissions, study design, data analysis, manuscript development, and journal submission
Experience in rural health, underserved populations, community-based research, or health outcomes research
Experience contributing to grant development and external funding efforts
Prior teaching experience relevant to the medical school curriculum

KEY COMPETENCIES:

applied research design and execution
student mentorship and faculty coaching
manuscript and abstract development>
project management and accountability
scholarly productivity
grant development support
teaching in research-related content areas

Opportunity for Impact

The addition of this role will strengthen student support, expand faculty scholarship, increase institutional research output, enhance grant development capacity, and help advance strategic and accreditation-related goals.

For the right candidate, this is an opportunity to play a meaningful role in shaping the next generation of physician-scholars while helping build a stronger, more productive research culture across the institution.

The essential physical and mental requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the job’s essential functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

DISCLAIMER:

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

It is the policy of Kansas Health Science University (KHSU)-Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine (KansasCOM) not to discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religion, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, childbirth and any medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. KHSU-KansasCOM is committed to complying with all applicable laws regarding equal employment opportunities. KHSU-KansasCOM strives to create and maintain a work environment in which people are treated with dignity, decency, and respect. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.

Kansas Health Science University offers a generous compensation and benefits package, as well as the opportunity to work for a leader in the field of education.