PROJECT COORD

Duke Careers•Durham, NC

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Department of Emergency Medicine and the Global Emergency Medicine Innovation and Implementation (GEMINI) Research Center are recruiting a Project Coordinator. The position will be focused primarily on the activities of the GEMINI center that include: support the administrative activities of the GEMINI Center, coordinating and managing project-specific teams, developing scientific manuscripts and reports, and analyzing data. This role will focus on project management to support the ongoing conduct of the project's needs. Similarly, this role will support the analysis of data using either quantitative or qualitative skills. This position will also be expected to have experience in project management including timelines and workflow and communication management, write manuscripts, grants and engaging with the Department faculty in research activities. For the GEMINI work, the researcher will analyze data, build academic dissemination products, meet weekly with the GEMINI Center members, support grant proposal development, and engage with research activities in the department. They will report directly to the GEMINI Research Center’s Director of Operations but work closely with a team of collaborators who come from multiple schools and departments within Duke and beyond. This position can be done from a hybrid work environment. The position comes with the potential opportunity for travel globally and domestically for dissemination, and plenty of opportunities for career advancement. As a project-based role, specific portfolios will vary over time. Current projects for which the incumbent would be responsible include: The Trauma REsearch Capacity Building in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Program Plan Supplement, an NIH-funded training grant which seeks to strengthen implementation science expertise through the training and mentoring of Tanzanian fellows and KCMC University faculty; Combating the Health Impacts of Climate Change in the Carolinas, The Duke Endowment initiative; and PROTECT-Wazee, an NIH-funded project to adapt a clinical practice guideline for managing older adult trauma patients to make it more appropriate and feasible for a lower-resourced setting.

Requirements

Work requires communication and analytical skills normally acquired through a 4-year education.
Work requires a general knowledge of research methods, procedures, and experience activities normally acquired through 1 year of social science research OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE.
Ability to work collaboratively, think proactively, and take ownership of activities and outputs.
Excellent organization skills to manage a complex portfolio of communication details and deadlines.
Capacity to prioritize work effectively and manage time and responsibilities autonomously.
Outstanding interpersonal skills to collaborate with key stakeholders from diverse backgrounds.
Responsiveness to feedback and willingness to offer feedback up and down the chain of responsibility
Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and Google Docs.
Openness to project-based work shifting according to the research center’s needs and funding over time.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated experience with scientific writing, grants writing and data analysis
Demonstrated skills with quantitative data analysis using R and/or Python
Demonstrated skills with qualitative research
Demonstrated skill in project management and scientific project coordination
Proficiency in Swahili and/or Portuguese is a plus

Responsibilities

Research Data Systems Management and Project Analytics (30%)
Plan, implement, and coordinate systems designed to monitor the planning for, and collection, storing, cleaning and dissemination of data related to GEMINI Center projects and other assigned research initiatives as required to assist programs, project directors, and/or principal investigator(s). Primary projects presently under the incumbent's responsibility relate to the TRECK research training grant, climate change projects, and global traumatic injury research.
Manage clinical, behavioral, implementation, and feasibility datasets from emergency departments and community settings.
Develop workflows for integrating environmental data with health outcomes data.
Support investigators with statistical analyses, implementation outcomes tracking, and reproducible research pipelines.
Project Coordination, Financial Tracking, and Team Management (10%)
Coordinate and manage interdisciplinary research teams across Duke and international sites (Tanzania) for research training, climate and health, and injury prevention projects
Lead project planning and execution, including milestone tracking, timelines, and deliverable coordination
Oversee project communications and stakeholder engagement
Monitor project budgets and ensure compliance with grant reporting requirements
Provide functional supervision and guidance to research staff and trainees, supporting efficient project operations
Global Research Network Coordination and Stakeholder Engagement (10%)
Coordinate activities with international collaborators involved in intervention research, particularly emergency care partners in Tanzania and other GEMINI network institutions.
Support coordination of implementation activities across clinical sites evaluating ongoing projects and policies
Maintain communication with clinicians, implementation partners, and behavioral health researchers.
Support dissemination of research findings to global health partners and stakeholders.
Facilitate collaboration across behavioral health, emergency medicine, and implementation science teams.
Scientific Writing, Dissemination, and Grant Development (20%)
Draft and co-author manuscripts focused on climate change impacts on health, injury epidemiology, and implementation of adaptation strategies.
Prepare technical reports and sponsor deliverables
Develop scientific presentations for global health, climate health, and emergency medicine conferences.
Support development of grant proposals focused on climate and health, implementation science, emergency medicine, and global health.
Coordinate interdisciplinary, international (primarily US, Brazil, and Tanzania) manuscript writing teams.
Data Quality Oversight and Multi-Site Data Governance (20%)
Review data collected from emergency departments, behavioral health studies, and digital screening platforms for quality assurance.
Ensure consistency of data across multinational research projects.
Monitor compliance with regulatory requirements for human subjects research and behavioral health data.
Recommend improvements to data collection tools and research data infrastructure.
Support implementation of standardized data quality monitoring practices.
Research Personnel Supervision and Project Staffing Support (10%)
Provide functional supervision of trainees working on global health projects.
Support mentoring activities aligned with GEMINI’s global research training mission.
Assist with onboarding and training of research personnel, with a particular focus on students and visiting scholars.
Support development of interdisciplinary trainees
Provide input into staffing needs and project workforce planning.