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Benefits Compensation Gladstone Extension Program Gladstone Scholars Program Housing Allowance Mentoring Moving Assistance Postdoctoral Advisor Postdoctoral Fellows Handbook Promotional Opportunities UCSF Women Scientists

	Benefits Gladstone offers a comprehensive set of benefits, which is outlined in the summary of benefits section.
	*Compensation* Salaries for postdoctoral fellows and research scientists are based on national and local survey data. Click here to view the 2007-2008 salary scale for potdoctoral fellows.
	*Gladstone Extension Program* The Gladstone Extension Program provides additional courses relevant to postdoctoral fellows, including informatics, Excel biostatistics, grant writing, interviewing skills, and manuscript preparation.
	*Gladstone Scholars Program* The plan creates a Gladstone Scholars Program, allowing postdoctoral fellows to accept the added benefits associated with winning prestigious and competitive fellowships (e.g., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Pfizer, Damon-Runyon). In addition, a new position recognizing the career development step for K01 or K08 recipients is under active development.
	*Housing Allowance* The plan includes a housing allowance of 5% of salary.
	*Mentoring* Mentoring is a hallmark of the Gladstone postdoctoral program. The full development of postdoctoral fellows depends on an excellent mentoring program to provide role models for scientists just establishing their careers and to solve problems in the laboratory. Mentoring Standards have been developed and distributed to all investigators, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students. Each of us has a part in this important effort. Principal Investigators Mentoring is now a specific item for discussion during the annual performance reviews, both between trainees and principal investigators and between Directors and principal investigators. Mentors will receive feedback about their performance in meeting the mentoring standards. Principal investigators will receive additional training in mentoring through management development seminars, talks by outside investigators who are particularly successful mentors, and distribution of pertinent literature. This training will focus on issues identified as needing particular attention. Postdoctoral Fellows We also want to make postdoctoral fellows more aware of procedures that exist for addressing problems between postdoctoral fellows and mentors. We encourage fellows to approach their mentor directly. However, if further action is required, fellows can seek resolution from the Institute’s Director, the postdoctoral fellows advisor in the Human Resources Department, or the President. The Directors and the Human Resources Department will consider an external consultant if the conflicts remain unresolved. Training in conflict resolution (for mentors and trainees) will be incorporated into the in-house training program (Gladstone Extension). The Institutes Gladstone is creating a mentoring network that extends beyond the individual laboratories. For example, a “Women in Science” seminar series gives female fellows an opportunity to interact with successful women scientists. The Committee on Advancement of Women Scientists at Gladstone, in conjunction with the President, Directors and Human Resources Department, continually evaluates and recommends changes and develop new programs to advance women scientists in the Institutes.
	*Moving Assistance* A lump sum payment of $1,500 is given to all new postdoctoral fellows to help defray the costs of moving and setting up a household in the Bay Area.
	*Postdoctral Advisor* John LeViathan, Human Resources Manager for the Gladstone Institutes, also serves as the postdoctoral advisor. He is the primary contact for postdoctoral fellows for employee relations, conflict resolution issues, and career development and counseling. You can e-mail John LeViathan at jleviathan@gladstone.ucsf.edu.
	*Postdoctoral Fellows Handbook* A handbook has been made available to provide comprehensive information for postdoctoral fellows.
	*Promotion Opportunities* The new plan provides for the possibility of promotion to research scientist after 3 years. Promotion is based solely on merit and scientific achievement. Promotion to research scientist includes a salary increase above the typical postdoctoral fellow level and participation in the Gladstone retirement program. All Gladstone years will count toward vesting, resulting in 60% vesting if promoted at the 3-year mark.
	*UCSF* The Directors have embraced the concept of emphasizing interactions with the University of California San Francisco as a fundamental priority and will at all stages of Gladstone/UCSF interactions facilitate such relationships, including those activities involving postdoctoral fellows.
	Women Scientists The Committee on Advancement of Women Scientists at Gladstone was established by the President and Directors of the Institutes to review attitudes and practices toward female scientists and to develop ways to promote women at Gladstone.