Program Coordinator I

San Diego State University Research FoundationSan Diego, CA
Onsite

About The Position

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) intervention. The intervention focuses on preventing and reducing tobacco and tobacco-cannabis co-use among housing insecure and systems-impacted adolescents and transitional-aged youth. The project also seeks to identify strategies for implementing, sustaining, and scaling TobExA in youth service settings. The project is a collaboration between San Diego State University (SDSU) and San Diego Youth Services (SDYS), overseen by Dr. Jennifer Felner (SDSU), Ms. Haley Veniegas (SDYS), and Ms. Renatta Escobedo (SDYS). This position will be supervised by Dr. Felner at the SDSU Institute for Behavioral and Community Health (IBACH) and will work closely with Ms. Venigas and Ms. Escobedo.

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.
  • Candidate must reside in California and live within a commutable distance from SDSU at time of hire.

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

Benefits

  • Job offer is contingent upon satisfactory clearance based on background check results (including a criminal record check).
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