The Jackson Laboratory

Research Analyst

• Contribute to planning and execution of projects and program operations
• Support project planning, tracking, reporting, documentation, and coordination across teams and service areas
• Collaborate with management and colleagues to define objectives, develop plans, and implement procedures
• Communicate regularly with internal stakeholders and contribute to written project materials
• Track milestones, coordinate resources, meetings, and action items, and support onboarding
• Understand scientific aims of sponsors and collaborators and keep projects moving forward by identifying blockers, unclear priorities, and resource gaps
• Document project objectives, milestones, team roles, commitments, tasks, and timelines
• Establish and coordinate project communications, team meetings, breakout meetings, subteam meetings, and daily standups; maintain meeting minutes
• Maintain and distribute project status updates to collaborators, sponsors, and stakeholders
• Monitor and document research objectives, task priorities, statuses, resources, decision points, and sponsor satisfaction
• Perform project accounting activities, including monthly grant accounting and services billing reporting
• Facilitate daily meetings, track daily tasks, coordinate routine communications, and maintain operational follow-through
• Assist in developing communication plans and maintaining dashboards, reports, and project reporting materials
• Support department-wide administrative and operational activities, including financial and service billing reporting, intake and service request processes, and project, vendor, and program records
• Coordinate team members associated with assigned projects and operational workflows

Associate Research Project Manager

Technician

• Perform perioperative tasks, including pre-operative health assessments
• Administer anesthesia safely and effectively
• Dose and document medications accurately
• Monitor intra-operative vital signs
• Ensure smooth anesthetic recovery
• Maintain complete and consistent surgical records
• Perform post-operative animal assessment and treatment
• Stock and sanitize surgical areas
• Maintain equipment and perform basic husbandry
• Pack mice for shipment to customers
• Perform minor surgical procedures such as incision repair
• Continuously develop surgical skills
• Support additional duties as needed

Surgical Technician, Rodent

Surgical Technician

Patent Agent

• Identify, capture, maintain, and protect JAX intellectual property rights.
• Build and streamline IP processes to drive efficiencies.
• Help researchers navigate complex intellectual property landscapes and develop strategies to secure and enforce IP rights.
• Partner with research teams and cross-functionally to provide strategic, proactive, and practical guidance regarding IP opportunities, strategies, and risk.
• Support day-to-day IP needs across JAX Mouse Clinical Research Services across varied scientific disciplines.
• Advise and actively manage patent strategy, drafting, prosecution, and maintenance, directly and with outside counsel.
• Support portfolio review sessions and occasionally prune the portfolio to align with organizational initiatives.
• Review invention disclosures and patent landscape searches.
• Collaborate with inventors on technical details, drawings, and experimental data for patent protection.
• Translate IP needs into actionable feedback for product and business development teams.
• Conduct patent searches for prior art, patentability, clearance, and freedom-to-operate analyses.
• Provide Sponsored Research Administration with patent filing data for reports, renewal applications, award closeouts, and final invention statements in iEdison under the Bayh-Dole Act.
• Report federally funded research inventions and patents to funding agencies via iEdison.
• Support IP enforcement initiatives and organizational compliance programs.
• Provide educational presentations and IP training to JAX employees.
• Report to the Chief IP Counsel.