Position Background
Atentiv seeks to provide personalized digital learning tools to children that naturally optimize, remediate, or rehabilitate inattention to improve academic performance. The Company is seeking a Director of Evidence Development to oversee the planning and execution of Atentiv’s global evidence development plan, including a range of school-based studies in the US, Europe and Asia.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualities:

• • Organized, structured, analytical
  • Demonstrated commitment to scientific rigor
  • Self-starter, resourceful, creative problem-solver
  • Confident, assertive, i.e., to enforce compliance with protocols and guidelines
  • Flexible, able to efficiently task-switch
  • High energy, thrive in fast-paced, high pressure environments
  • Personable, open communicator, with demonstrated ability to forge positive and productive working relationships

Responsibilities

The Director, Evidence Development will be responsible for carrying out the company’s global evidence development plan, including:

• • Oversee global study operations as Lead Investigator or Principal Investigator, including school-based pilot studies and randomized, controlled studies of academic performance
  • Develop global study plans, including feasibility, timelines, staffing requirements (inhouse and onsite) and budgets
  • Hire, train and mentor global study operations team
  • Oversee relationships with study sites, including investigator contracts/budgets, protocol compliance, and operational performance
  • Drive patient recruitment efforts and contribute to communications with medical community, including presentation of study results
  • Collaboratively develop study protocols, oversee analysis and interpretation of results, and draft study reports and publications
  • Develop, train on and monitor compliance with study protocols and Standard Operating Procedures
  • Assure compliance with all ethical and regulatory requirements, including patient protections such as informed consent and safety reporting
  • Establish data collection and analysis processes and procedures (e.g., case report form development) and quality assurance (e.g., source data verification)

Experience and Education

• • Minimum 5-10 years of human subjects research operations experience with ability to function as Principal Investigator
  • Medical device, drugs or consumer products preferred
  • Psychiatric or neurological experience preferred
    • Ideally experience/interest in childhood development (e.g., ADHD, autism), learning disabilities (e.g., language/dyslexia) or school psychology
    • Experience/interest in memory/Alzheimer’s, cognition/Schizophrenia, etc. a plus
  • Demonstrated ability to build and manage teams and interact with network of external advisors
  • Experience working in entrepreneurial and/or educational environment preferred
  • Personal experience with neuro/psych childhood development a plus (e.g., as parent, sibling or caretaker)
  • Graduate degree in relevant discipline preferred

Other Requirements

• • Reside in the Boston area
  • Able to make full time commitment with variable hours and relatively frequent travel

Submissions and Inquiries

• • Please contact us at humanresources@atentiv.com. When inquiring for a position, please remember to indicate the title along with your cover letter and resume.

For more information:

www.atentiv.com
www.atentiontheuraputics.com