Perelman School of Medicine Path BioResource University of Pennsylvania M163 John Morgan Bldg., 3620 Hamilton WalkPhiladelphiaPennsylvania19104 USA.
University Shared Resources and Knight Cancer Institute Oregon Health & Science University 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park RoadPortlandOregon97239 USA.
J Biomol Tech. 2023 Jan 24;33(4). doi: 10.7171/3fc1f5fe.418fa1db. eCollection 2022 Dec 31.
Shared research resources are essential to academic research. A rapidly evolving workforce within a highly competitive market is making recruitment and retention of knowledgeable and technically skilled core staff more difficult. The inability to recruit and retain staff diminishes the resource's overall ability to provide services, which in turn affects academic research quality. Research institutions need to recognize that the roles and skills of shared research resource staff are distinguishable from those of research staff in funded investigator laboratories, and in doing so, develop a career path for shared research resource staff that will help these facilities recruit, train, and retain them. This brief focuses on the creation of a standardized career track for shared research resource staff: a career path of at least 3 to 5 tiered positions with task outlines that can be tailored to positions needed in any shared research resource. Salaries will vary for individuals within each position classification based on experience, mastered competencies, and time within the shared research resource. Besides characterizing basic task differences between shared research resource staff and other research personnel, the most compelling reason for having a well-delineated career path for shared research resource staff is to establish fairness, equity, and true opportunity in a supportive working environment, where shared research resource staff are motivated by developing a marketable skill set, gaining professional self-confidence, and earning a meaningful salary. Presented here is a case study from Oregon Health & Science University of the creation of a career path for shared research resource staff.
共享研究资源对于学术研究至关重要。在竞争激烈的市场中，劳动力不断变化，使得招募和留住知识渊博且技术熟练的核心员工变得更加困难。无法招募和留住员工会降低资源提供服务的整体能力，进而影响学术研究质量。研究机构需要认识到，共享研究资源工作人员的角色和技能与受资助的研究员实验室中的研究人员不同，因此为共享研究资源工作人员制定职业发展道路将有助于这些设施招募、培训和留住他们。本简报重点介绍为共享研究资源工作人员创建标准化职业轨道：至少 3 到 5 个层级的职业道路，其中包含可以针对任何共享研究资源中所需职位进行定制的任务概述。根据经验、掌握的能力和在共享研究资源中的时间，每个职位分类中的个人薪酬会有所不同。除了描述共享研究资源工作人员与其他研究人员之间的基本任务差异外，为共享研究资源工作人员制定明确职业道路的最有力原因是在支持性工作环境中建立公平、公正和真正的机会，在这种环境中，共享研究资源工作人员通过发展有市场价值的技能集、获得专业自信和赚取有意义的薪酬来获得动力。这里介绍了俄勒冈健康与科学大学为共享研究资源工作人员创建职业道路的案例研究。
