STAS Evaluation Intern

University of Florida • Gainesville, FL

7d • Onsite

About The Position

The UF Health Cancer Institute (UFHCI) is seeking an Evaluation Intern to assist with the dissemination of health communication materials and program metric coordination. UFHCI is the 72nd NCI designated cancer center and the only one at a public university in the State of Florida. As a matrix cancer center, it spans all of the University of Florida's 16 colleges, with a multidisciplinary membership of over 350 faculty and 150 staff. This internship is ideal for candidates interested in applied data assessment, program evaluation, public health, and community participative research.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a degree in public health, health education, health communication, epidemiology, or other related field.
• Knowledge of APA or AMA formatting.
• A basic understanding of statistics.
• Strong time management skills with the ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and maintain excellent attention to detail.
• Effective oral and written communication skills, including proofreading.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Eligible to work on campus and employed through student Other Personnel Services (OPS).
• Maintain a minimum 2.0 grade point average.
• Registered student employed on a part-time basis, up to 20 hours per week.
• Successful pre-employment screening including a background check.

Nice To Haves

• Student pursuing a master’s or doctoral degree in public health, health education, health communication, epidemiology, or other related field.
• Some experience with or familiarity/knowledge of social/behavioral and/or clinical research, including commonly employed methodologies.
• Experience conducting literature reviews and utilizing secondary data sources in research.
• Highly resourceful team-player, with the ability to maintain appropriate discretion and operate independently on assigned projects.
• Strong desire to learn, seek out, and apply new knowledge, methods, and information.
• Desire to establish and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders and critical staff.
• Exposure to and basics skills in using survey software solutions (e.g. Qualtrics and REDCap).
• Basic understanding of or ability/willingness to learn about secondary data sources related to cancer statistics, population demographic, and social/behavioral risk factors.

Responsibilities

• Assisting with coordinating and tracking programmatic metrics across the COE, including presentations that result from evaluation data.
• Coordinating data visualization needs with the others in COE and the Biostatistics & Computational Biology Shared Resource.
• Preparing data for dissemination and communication materials and reports.
• Coordinating project deliverables with UFHCI communications, marketing, and other units.
• Supporting survey development and management.
• Contributing to basic report writing.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed