Program Coordinator, JMU Personal Responsibility Education Innovative Strategies (JMUPREIS)
About The Position
James Madison University is seeking a Program Coordinator to lead the implementation of its grant-funded Personal Responsibility Education Innovative Strategies (PREIS) program. Based within the Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services (IIHHS) and SexEdVA, the role oversees the planning, coordination, and day-to-day management of grant activities. The position is grant-funded and contingent upon continued funding. SexEdVA works to ensure young people across Virginia have access to evidence-based, medically accurate sexual health information. Its mission is to support adolescent sexual health in Virginia communities through training and technical assistance, curriculum development, research, and advocacy. IIHHS, housed within JMU’s College of Health and Behavioral Studies, works to build healthier and safer communities. The JMUPREIS initiative serves vulnerable high-school-aged youth in Virginia, including youth ages 16–19 in the foster care system and pregnant or parenting youth in the foster care system under age 21. The program emphasizes abstinence and contraception and addresses healthy relationships, healthy life skills, adolescent development, and parent-child communication. It uses a hybrid intervention that will be implemented and rigorously evaluated using a randomized controlled trial design.
Requirements
- Significant professional experience working with youth and/or facilitating youth programming.
- Knowledge of adolescent development and best practices in teen pregnancy prevention.
- Experience planning effective public health education programs.
- Experience managing teams and supervising employees.
- Ability to write grants and research funding opportunities.
- Ability to relate to teens, parents, and families of varying abilities and backgrounds, as well as agency professionals, school staff, and community members.
- Ability to compose reports and organize presentations.
- Good oratory, organizational, administrative, and interpersonal skills.
- Successful completion of a criminal background check is required.
Nice To Haves
- Significant professional experience in public health.
- Experience with youth development and outreach to youth in the foster care system.
- Experience with prevention programming design and delivery.
Responsibilities
- Provide supervision, management, and leadership for the JMUPREIS program.
- Coordinate program logistics and ensure grant compliance.
- Oversee the development and maintenance of relationships with fourteen implementation sites.
- Manage the non-personnel budget.
- Plan long-term for VPREIS student enrollment and site recruitment.
- Supervise JMUPREIS program staff.
- Assist the Program Manager with monthly facilitator observations.
- Conduct support calls with fourteen partner sites and ensure implementation procedures meet curriculum and grant standards.
- Conduct grant research and grant development to sustain existing SexEdVA programs for IIHHS.
- Support JMU’s and IIHHS’ mission and vision through community outreach, experiential learning for JMU students, and engaged learning and scholarship in health and human services.
- Collaborate with academic programs to develop opportunities for JMU faculty and students to participate in PREIS.
- Supervise JMU student interns, volunteers, and work-study students.
Benefits
- Paid vacation leave
- Paid sick leave
- Paid parental leave
- Community service leave
- 19 paid holidays annually
- Health insurance options
- Retirement benefits through the Virginia Retirement System
- Employee well-being resources through the Balanced Dukes program
- Tuition waiver for undergraduate and graduate courses taken at JMU
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
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