Program Coordinator I
About The Position
The starting salary range for this position is $5,875.00 per month depending upon qualifications and is non-negotiable. This community-based participatory research project, funded by the Tobacco Related Disease Research Program of California (TRDRP), aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the youth-informed Tobacco Harm Reduction through Expressive Arts (TobExA) strengths-based intervention to prevent and reduce tobacco and tobacco-cannabis co-use among housing insecure and systems-impacted adolescents and transitional-aged youth. It also aims to elucidate strategies to implement, sustain, and scale TobExA in youth service settings. The project is collaboratively overseen by Dr. Jennifer Felner (SDSU), Ms. Haley Veniegas (SDYS), and Ms. Renatta Escobedo (SDYS). This position is supervised by Dr. Felner at the SDSU Institute for Behavioral and Community Health (IBACH) and will work closely with Ms. Venigas and Ms. Escobedo. Under the immediate supervision of Dr. Felner, the study Program Manager will perform advanced community-based participatory research activities pertaining to study coordination; overseeing equitable partner engagement and participatory planning processes; overseeing qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis efforts; supporting participant engagement and retention; and supporting oversight of the broader community-academic research team. Performance in this role will be supported by prior scientific knowledge from the appropriate coursework and skills acquired through community-based work experience.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent training and administration work experience involving study, analysis, and/or evaluation leading to the development or improvement of administrative policies, procedures, practices, or programs.
- Five years of progressively responsible experience in office or administrative environment.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in public health or related field
- Bilingual/Biliterate (Spanish-English) proficiency
Responsibilities
- Oversee daily study management in collaboration with relevant staff and community partners
- Oversee partner engagement and participatory planning processes
- Oversee routine IRB correspondence and maintenance
- Oversee participant recruitment and retention
- Provide daily updates to the Principal Investigator on study oversight
- Support multi-setting mixed-methods data collection, management, and analyses (including qualitative interviews and focus groups; ethnographic observations in youth service settings; and longitudinal surveys)
- Support supervision of other research staff and student research interns or volunteers
- Collaborate with community partners to train and provide technical assistance to intervention facilitators (including via monthly “communities of practice”)
- Support the development and implementation of a youth facilitator model to support intervention roll-out and testing
- Oversee quarterly engagement of study Community Advisory Board (CAB)
- Support funder-required reporting (quarterly or annual progress reports)
- Support project dissemination through community and academic presentations, reports, and briefs
- Opportunities for authorship on scientific manuscripts and presentations at scientific conferences
- Attend trainings as needed
- Comply with all Project and SDSURF policies and procedures
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
