Public Health Program Associate - Rollins School of Public Health
About The Position
The Department of Epidemiology at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health seeks a Public Health Program Associate to provide project management support for a portfolio aimed at improving health outcomes related to HIV, substance abuse, and women’s health. The role involves project management on several funded projects and will require establishing and then tracking project progress against timelines, liaising between project team members, funders, and stakeholders, coordinating and documenting project calls and communications, tracking budgetary spenddown, and leading subcontract, regulatory, milestone, reporting, and personnel processes. This role will support two passionate Emory faculty members leading dynamic USG-funded grants built around making a difference in the lives of vulnerable populations.
Requirements
- A master's degree in Public Health, a master of science degree in Public Health or Health Education, OR a master's degree in Development Practice OR a master's degree in another field and one year of public health experience.
Responsibilities
- Under limited supervision, uses a basic knowledge of public health principles to analyze, develop, implement, and promote new and creative strategies and solutions to address public health issues and challenges.
- Addresses public health issues by providing education, technical assistance, advocacy, public awareness, and research.
- Works with programs or studies designed to evaluate the prevalence or surveillance of public health issues and the effectiveness of targeted interventions.
- May provide technical assistance to organizations to include presentations, web-based resources, strategies, and educational forums to address specific public health issues.
- May work with clinical study sites on patient recruitment and data collection standards.
- Assists with data collection and data analysis.
- Contributes to proposals, protocols, data analysis plans, reports, manuscripts, and presentation of study findings.
- May assist in designing, developing, and conducting targeted training initiatives.
- May collaborate with external organizations to develop action plans and goals to achieve specific objectives.
- Performs related responsibilities as required.
- Plan ahead, track, and anticipate with respect to post award budget forecasting, effort monitoring, reporting (RPPR), IRB renewal, DUA renewal, and data destruction requirements across all projects.
- Ensure completion of all subcontract setup, amendment, invoicing, and completion processes.
- Contribute to new activities such as pre-award grant submission, just in time processes including new IRB applications, and other activities as needs arise.
- Contribute to and support research activities through interfacing with data collection and data team needs, reporting review, supporting the development of data collection tools, developing or giving presentations, or other team needs.
- Support meetings and communication for all projects (agendas, minutes, follow-ups), with needs varying across projects depending on current personnel roles.
- Support team member travel, expense reporting, and other administrative needs.
- Support and mentor other team members such as graduate research assistants.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
