While researching this week’s SmartJobs posting on mental health we also noticed a rising demand for graduate and PhD level skills within the health tech and outcomes segment.

This is not only about STEM skills per sea but a much broader scope that includes PhD-level skills related to business development, policy, data science, user experience, project management, economic outcomes research, and partnerships work within larger healthcare companies

We profile a few selected positions below:

HSS

Director, Early Innovation Partnering, Johnson & Johnson

Business Development Manager, iHealth Labs

Consumer Experience Researcher, Sanofi

Project Manager, Vibrent Health

Policy Lead, Ellison Institute

STEM

Vice President, Health Economics Outcomes Research

Researcher, Health Equity, Mathematica Policy Research

Global Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Lead Data Scientist, Novelis

OPEN INNOVATION

If you’re not looking for a full-time position it is never too early ton gain real-world experience outside of academia.

Of note: there are many opportunities to contribute to health innovation, such as our latest participation in the National Institutes of Health and NASA’s “Air You Wear Challenge,” (see flyer below).  You can register for this challenge, and others, over at our Experiences section.

If there are areas of work you would like us to explore in more depth, please contact at s ocial@versatilephd.com. 

We want to hear from you.

For access to more jobs as well as archived and searchable opportunities, visit our SmartJobs page.  Note: SmartJobs access requires a university affiliation. User-generated jobs are open to all members and can be accessed here.

From Covid-19 stresses to Olympian Simone Biles, there has been a new embrace of mental health challenges.  This means more companies, jobs and potential career paths for PhDs and graduate students in the field.

One example is that investment into mental health start-ups and new technologies have rapidly expanded the number of private companies involved in supporting mental health challenges.  In 2020 alone, investors allocated a record $1.5 billion into mental health start-ups, which has also created a new area of hiring and career development that includes advocacy, clinical work, technology platforms, data science and policy work.

We provide below a few selected positions across Humanities Social Sciences and STEM fields below, with many more opportunities in our SmartJobs section.

Keep an open mind.

HSS

Therapist, (LMFT, LcSW, PhD, PsyD), Little Otter

Program Coordinator, Community Support for Families, Wellmore

Case Manager, Community Liaison, Street Smart Youth Project

Social Worker, Mental Health Clinician (Spanish Bilingual), Institute for Family Health

Psychologist – Adult, Kaiser Permanente

STEM

Research Scientist, Spring Health

Mental Health Data Analyst, NYC Health

Post-Doctoral Fellow, ADHD and Behavioral Disorders Center, Child Mind Institute

Early Mental Health Clinician (0-6), A Better Way

If there are areas of work you would like us to explore in more depth, please contact at s ocial@versatilephd.com. 

We want to hear from you.

For access to more jobs as well as archived and searchable opportunities, visit our SmartJobs page.  Note: SmartJobs access requires a university affiliation. User-generated jobs are open to all members and can be accessed here.

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Investment in lifelong learning, stacked credentials, remote mentoring, micro-lectures and skill platforms has been growing rapidly to keep pace with our modern world of work.  The pandemic has accelerated this trend and created even more careers in the emerging “Edtech” field.  In 2020, a total of $16.1 billion was invested in edtech companies around the world.  And hundreds of new ventures, as well as new initiatives among older enterprises, are created every month.

We have written about this career area previously. In fact, we recorded an entire webinar with Brian Johnsrud (Adobe, Khan Academy) who, through years of experience inside Edtech companies, provided insights into how he applied his PhD on the job.  You can listen to this event on our webinar page.

There are also number of job and information sites that cover the growing Edtech industry; the most widely read is EdSurge (they have job listings as well).

As usual on this blog, we have provided our own PhD appropriate career opportunities in Edtech and more links on our SmartJobs page.  EdTech career roles range from program management and user research to domain experts and engineers, and are well suited to many PhDs looking to make an impact in how the world learns.

HSS

Client Experience Manager, Blackboard

Director, Program Management, Edmentum

Customer Insights Researcher, Cengage

Public Health Program Analyst, Akeshka/CDC

Associate, User Researcher, BrainPOP

Research and Dissemination Summer Intern, Summer 2021, The Primary School

STEM

Senior Software Engineer, Great Minds

Data Coach, Multiverse

AI/NLP Engineer, Cogni

If there are areas of work you would like us to explore in more depth, please contact at social@versatilephd.com. 

We want to hear from you.

For access to more jobs as well as archived and searchable opportunities, visit our SmartJobs page. Note: SmartJobs access requires a university affiliation. User-generated jobs are open to all members and can be accessed here.

We know that more than a few PhD students and grads are interested in working for the public good through philanthropic organizations.  Fortunately, PhDs can contribute mightily across a wide range of skill sets and research areas.

How to get started?

We have looked at various iterations of institutional research, grant writing and other areas that fit with philanthropic and foundation work on our PhD Career Finder.  But there are other sites, such as Foundation Center (a good sources of data on and lists of foundations) and Guidestar to help you with further research on specific causes, initiatives and contacts.

There are also jobs listings over at The Chronicle of Philanthropy; but, first, take a look at the Phd-appropriate examples on this week’s list, and many more on our SmartJobs page.

Note that we have thrown together HSS/STEM this week as most positions are open to a range of disciplines and do not often specify.  Dive in below.

HSS/STEM

Thematic Director, Civic Engagement, Ford Foundation

Senior Vice President, The Humane Society

Director of Health Care, Arnold Ventures

Interim Officer, Philanthropic Partnerships, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Regional Philanthropic Officer, American Red Cross

Director of Services, Self Help Services, Center for Responsible Lending

Researcher, Food and Water Watch

Entrepreneurial Leader, Research and Analysis, The Urban Institute

If there are areas of work you would like us to explore in more depth, please contact at social@versatilephd.com. 

We want to hear from you.

For access to more jobs as well as archived and searchable opportunities, visit our SmartJobs page. Note: SmartJobs access requires a university affiliation. User-generated jobs are open to all members and can be accessed here.

We can guess what many of you are thinking.  Cybersecurity? With my background?

Yet cybersecurity careers permeate nearly every industry and government agency today, and the people they are recruiting–and skills demanded–are expanding across the range of security, privacy, law and policy domains.

It’s also a fast growing industry: the Broadband Institute projects below the size of the Cybersecurity Industry to reach $248 billion in annual spending by 2023, much of this on infrastructure and people, including PhDs.

During our search this week it was evident that demand for highly-skilled people in this industry is significant and growing.  And it’s not just computer or data scientists in demand; there are jobs in privacy advocacy, policy work, technical writing and general market and business development.

As we often note here, there is also significant activity amongst start-up and emerging companies which can offer great hiring packages and exciting career opportunities.  The market map below provides a few examples of companies on the move (source: CB Insights).

You can check out a few examples on our list below, and many more on our SmartJobs page:

HSS

FOIA Analyst/Lawyer, IBSS Inc

Senior Manager, IR Business Development, SentinelOne

Special Projects, Coalition

Snr Business Development Manager, f5

Open Source Researcher, TS/ w CI-POLY, Excivity

STEM

Cybersecurity Subject Matter Expert, TUVA (Akima)

Information System Security Engineer, ManTech

Principal, IT Risk Analyst, BNY Mellon Bank

Android Vulnerability Researcher, Lockheed Martin

Digital Forensics and/or Reverse Engineer, Mitre Corporation 

If there are areas of work you would like us to explore in more depth, please contact at social@versatilephd.com. 

We want to hear from you.

For access to more jobs as well as archived and searchable opportunities, visit our SmartJobs page. Note: SmartJobs access requires a university affiliation. User-generated jobs are open to all members and can be accessed here.

Career opportunities in the future of food, agriculture and climate, focused narrowly on the US or more significantly around the world, are multiplying. In the investment and start-up world not a day goes by when there’s not some mention of a new plant-based chicken, the impact of agriculture on climate change, policies that allow more healthy lunches to school children, or how Uber is acquiring another company to deliver alcohol straight to your home.

These sectors are broad and offer a range of business, research, lab science and public advocacy opportunities.  In the US alone the food and agriculture sector accounts for over $1.1. trillion in GDP and is a critical part of the workforce.  The extension to climate, as well as the science that drives the sector’s future development, is a separate and equally important source of present and future jobs.

We have pulled in a range of possibilities, from government to private sector food development to scientific work into the how future generations will eat.  Notably, the emergence of new companies in these sectors need to draw from a wide range of domain expertise, with PhDs front and center.

Check out a few examples here, and more on our site:

HSS

Foreign Service Agricultural Officer, USAID

Senior Research Consultant, Agribusiness, IHS Markit

Director, Product Dev Commercialization, Impossible Foods

Research Analyst, IFPRI (Intl. Food Policy Research Institute)

Program Manager, Food & Agriculture, Climate Works

STEM

Field Applications Scientist (Sequencing), Thermo- Fischer

Food Science Product Development, Compound Foods

Principal Development Scientist, Meat Snacks, Conagra

Bioprocess Engineer, Invaio Sciences

Flavor Scientist, Mars Corporation

If there are areas of work you would like us to explore in more depth, please contact at social@versatilephd.com. 

We want to hear from you.

For access to more jobs as well as archived and searchable opportunities, visit our SmartJobs page. Note: SmartJobs access requires a university affiliation. User-generated jobs are open to all members and can be accessed here.