Program Coordinator, JMU Personal Responsibility Education Innovative Strategies (JMUPREIS)
About The Position
James Madison University is seeking a Program Coordinator to lead implementation of its grant-funded Personal Responsibility Education Innovative Strategies (PREIS) program, JMUPREIS. Based within the Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services (IIHHS) and SexEdVA, the position oversees planning, coordination, and day-to-day management of grant activities. Continued employment is contingent upon continued grant funding. SexEdVA works to improve access to evidence-based, medically accurate sexual health information for young people across Virginia. Its work addresses social determinants of health through youth programming and training for adults, and includes training and technical assistance, curriculum development, research, and advocacy. IIHHS works to build healthier and safer communities and is housed in JMU’s College of Health and Behavioral Studies. JMUPREIS serves vulnerable high-school-aged youth in Virginia, including youth ages 16–19 in foster care and pregnant and parenting youth in foster care who are under age 21. The initiative targets areas with high teen birth rates and elevated risks related to teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS. It uses a comprehensive, collaborative hybrid intervention emphasizing abstinence and contraception, as well as healthy relationships, healthy life skills, adolescent development, and parent-child communication. The program is to 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.
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.
- Conduct long-range planning 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 support grant development to sustain existing SexEdVA programs for IIHHS.
- Support JMU and IIHHS outreach, experiential learning, engaged learning, and scholarship objectives.
- Collaborate with academic programs to develop opportunities for JMU faculty and student involvement in PREIS.
- Supervise JMU student interns, volunteers, and work-study students.
Benefits
- Paid vacation leave
- Paid sick leave
- Paid parental leave
- Paid community service leave
- 19 paid holidays annually
- Health insurance
- Retirement benefits through the Virginia Retirement System
- Employee wellness and work-life integration 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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