About Staff Training & Support
Build the team and structure that keeps your lab stable, scalable, and consistently compliant. The coLABorative supports recruitment, assessment, and staffing design for reproductive laboratories, with a focus on competency, clarity of roles, and operational continuity.
This service can include talent sourcing and screening, competency assessments aligned to your lab’s procedures and complexity, staffing level audits, and creation of customized job descriptions that reflect the reality of the work (not generic templates). We can also support operational-level review of employment contracts and compensation structures to ensure they are competitive, sustainable, and aligned with responsibilities and regulatory expectations.
Whether you are opening a new lab, expanding volume, backfilling critical roles, or reorganizing leadership, this service helps you reduce hiring risk and create a team structure that performs.
What this can cover
- Recruitment support and candidate screening
- Competency assessment frameworks
- Staffing level audits and coverage planning
- Customized job descriptions and role definitions
- Contract and compensation reviews
The CoLABorative management team includes Dara Berger, PhD, MPH, MS; Charlene Alouf, PhD, HCLD, TS; Gerry Celia, MBA, PhD, HCLD, CC; and Liesl Nel-Themaat, PhD, HCLD, MBA.
