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Description
The Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Emory School of Medicine is seeking a Public Health Program Associate to serve as a Project Manager for a research portfolio related to sexual and reproductive health, including a five-year research project on pregnancy loss management post Dobbs.
Please submit a cover letter expressing your interest in this position. Applicants may upload the cover letter along with their application or email it to mallory.rutledge@emory.edu, please include the following in the subject line: Cover Letter Applicant Name Requisition 136319.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Under limited supervision, uses a basic knowledge of public health principles to analyze, develop, implement, and promote new and creative strategies and solutions to address public health issues and challenges.
- Addresses public health issues by providing education, technical assistance, advocacy, public awareness, and research.
- Works with programs or studies designed to evaluate the prevalence or surveillance of public health issues and the effectiveness of targeted interventions.
- May provide technical assistance to organizations to include presentations, web-based resources, strategies, and educational forums to address specific public health issues.
- May work with clinical study sites on patient recruitment and data collection standards. Assists with data collection and data analysis.
- Contributes to proposals, protocols, data analysis plans, reports, manuscripts, and presentation of study findings.
- May assist in designing, developing, and conducting targeted training initiatives.
- May collaborate with external organizations to develop action plans and goals to achieve specific objectives.
- Performs related responsibilities as required.
The team member is also expected to engage in the following specific activities:
- Providing significant logistics and program support to the research portfolio and team including communication and coordination between study sites.
- Works with other study staff in the implementation of project aims, data management, and the coordination of team members assisting in project development.
- Assist in writing grants, progress reports, briefings, or other written material.
- Prepares and monitors research-related budgets and monitors grant expenditures.
- Assist with any approvals processes with ethical review boards and subcontractors.
- Contribute to qualitative and quantitative analyses.
- Contribute to the development of manuscripts, community-facing products, and deliverables.
- Assist with the creation of high-quality presentations (and related materials) for academic meetings, stakeholders, and reports for funders on deliverables throughout the project.
- Supervises staff and students by orienting, training, and providing performance feedback.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- A master's degree in Public Health, a master of science degree in Public Health or Health Education, OR a master's degree in Development Practice OR a master's degree in another field and one year of public health experience.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 2 years full-time work experience in a relevant field.
- Exceptional organizational, teamwork, and written/oral communication skills and attention to detail, the ability to multi-task, remain flexible and manage time effectively.
- Self-starter with the ability to keep up in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong interest in sexual and reproductive health including maternal health and abortion and comfort working with sensitive topics.
- Ability to handle confidential information and projects with professionalism and discretion.
- Advanced literacy in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Visio.
- Strong research and analytical skills; Experience with quantitative and qualitative data analysis; mixed methods research studies.
- Previous experience with electronic health records.
NOTE: This role will be granted the opportunity to work from home regularly but must be able to commute to Emory University on a flexible weekly schedule based upon business needs. Schedule is based on agreed-upon guidelines of the department. This role requires residency in the state of GA. Emory reserves the right to change remote work status with notice to employee.
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