Jobs at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Plans, coordinates, and implements departmental projects and events. Develops work plans, monitors project status, manages day-to-day activities, prepares reports and statistical analyses, tracks hours and expenses, supports budgets, and maintains project documentation. The role requires strong organization, communication, collaboration, analytical, and project management skills in a healthcare rehabilitation environment.

Provides supervised respiratory therapy and patient care for adult, pediatric, and geriatric inpatients. Duties include airway assessments, oxygen and carbon dioxide monitoring, suctioning, airway clearance therapies, nebulized medication administration, equipment replacement and stocking, infection-control compliance, and electronic documentation. Requires enrollment in or recent graduation from an accredited respiratory care program and current American Heart Association BLS certification.

Coordinates point-of-care testing and laboratory quality activities, including quality control, competency assessments, equipment troubleshooting, regulatory documentation, operational metrics, and inspection readiness. Supports phlebotomy, specimen processing, EKG services, research specimen coordination, laboratory workflows, and continuous improvement. Collaborates with clinical, research, nursing, physician, vendor, and laboratory teams while assisting the Laboratory Manager with compliance and operational initiatives.

Support implementation, configuration, and deployment of analytic systems; generate datasets and reports; build and maintain dashboards and reporting repository; translate business requirements into system design; configure and maintain analytics tools (e.g., REDCap, Tableau); perform testing, documentation, training, and on-call support; collaborate with clinical, research, and operations stakeholders to deliver analytics products and projects.

Leads a rehabilitation partnership program across multiple care settings and locations. Oversees clinical and administrative operations, budgets, staffing, regulatory compliance, program development, financial performance, referral marketing, stakeholder relationships, and staff development in collaboration with the Medical Director.

Conducts literature searches, recruits and consents research participants, reviews medical records, conducts interviews, collects and manages qualitative and quantitative data, codes and transcribes interviews, assists with analysis, prepares reports and visualizations, maintains study files, and supports scholarly activities. May travel to research sites or participants’ homes and work flexible hours.

Manages daily office operations, administrative workflows, records, payroll preparation, scheduling, vendor payments, supplies, and clerical services. Supervises administrative support staff, maintains procedures and policies, processes healthcare documentation, responds to legal records requests while ensuring HIPAA compliance, validates referring physicians, and prepares correspondence and reports. Requires strong organization, communication, customer service, bookkeeping, basic accounting, software, and independent judgment skills.

Manages daily operations of a biologics laboratory and biorepository supporting biomedical research. Coordinates shared resources, purchasing, equipment maintenance, vendors, workflows, safety training, regulatory compliance, and emergency response for stored biospecimens. Serves as Chemical Hygiene Officer, maintaining safety plans, inspections, records, chemical inventories, and corrective actions. Supports molecular, cellular, and organismal biology researchers while ensuring reliable laboratory infrastructure and compliance with institutional biosafety, IRB, and IACUC requirements.

Provides Tier 1 hardware and software support through telephone and face-to-face assistance. Resolves technology issues, installs and troubleshoots hardware, software, peripherals, PCs, and printers, documents tickets and resolutions, prepares status reports, and supports network and application teams. Requires occasional travel to Chicagoland remote sites and the ability to move hardware weighing up to 30 pounds.

Lead complex financial modeling, long-range financial planning, treasury support, budgeting, risk and cost-variation analysis. Prepare management reports, present findings to senior leaders, mentor junior analysts, and improve data accuracy and reporting processes.

Manages daily office operations and administrative staff supervision, including payroll preparation, record keeping, vendor invoice entry, HIPAA-compliant release of billing records, scheduling, policy updates, bookkeeping, physician validation, and development of office systems and procedures to support clinical operations.

Leads research commercialization, industry-sponsored clinical trials, strategic partnerships, technology licensing, and collaborative research programs. Develops portfolio strategy, budgets, forecasts, pricing, and negotiation frameworks; oversees contracts, regulatory requirements, staffing, risk management, performance metrics, and cross-functional execution. Serves as a senior advisor to scientific and executive leadership while cultivating relationships with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, digital health, and academic partners.

Perform financial analysis, modeling, projections, and reporting to support budgeting, capital tracking, treasury functions, and business development. Collaborate with department managers, prepare monthly financial and capital reports, identify process improvements, perform risk and cost-variation analysis (including advanced statistical techniques), and support decision-making in a complex healthcare environment.

Purchase and manage inventory of pharmaceuticals for the Department of Pharmacy, select vendors, process purchase orders, handle recalls/returns, prepare inventory reports, assist pharmacists with controlled inventory, and perform pharmacy technician duties while supporting departmental operations and training.

Manage a team of business application analysts to design, implement, integrate, and support corporate systems (Workday/ERP/HRMS). Oversee application lifecycle, prioritize projects, liaise with leadership and operational teams, develop strategic plans, enforce policies, and ensure system reliability and user support.

Design and maintain secure, scalable data infrastructure and pipelines to ingest, process, and deliver structured and unstructured hospital data. Implement HIPAA-aligned data security, track data quality and lifecycle, perform capacity planning, mapping, ETL, modeling, and define governance and standards for storage, transformation, and analytics to support clinical, research, and business stakeholders.

Perform CT and radiographic procedures, evaluate requests and images, provide patient education, conduct POC creatinine testing before contrast studies, notify physicians of changes, and assist with clerical/transport duties in the Radiology department.

Dispense and prepare inpatient medications (unit dose cassettes), prepack tablets/capsules, prepare IV admixtures under pharmacist supervision, order and inspect medication shipments, monitor expirations and returns, maintain pharmacy cleanliness and equipment, deliver medications to nursing units, and support inventory and documentation per policy.

Perform CT and related imaging procedures per protocols, evaluate and preliminarily interpret images, perform POC creatinine testing before contrast studies, provide patient education, notify physicians of changes, and support radiology operations while demonstrating core values and teamwork.

The Clinical Nurse Leader manages unit-level patient outcomes by coordinating interdisciplinary care, collecting and analyzing clinical and functional data, implementing and modifying evidence-based care plans, mentoring staff, monitoring patient satisfaction and discharge readiness, and leading quality improvement initiatives. Serves as charge nurse when needed and collaborates on policy, education, and data-driven performance improvements.