Program Aide

Job Title

Program Aide

Agency

Texas A&M Agrilife Research

Department

Dallas

Proposed Minimum Salary

Commensurate

Job Location

Dallas, Texas

Job Type

Staff

Job Description

The Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture seeks a Program Aide to work in close collaboration and coordination with the Healthy Living research team, whose work focuses on addressing health disparities and promoting nutrition and health equity through clinical and community-engaged randomized controlled trials as well as dissemination and implementation research and related projects. The Program Aide will provide project managers and staff with administrative and technical support for Healthy Living research projects and initiatives and will be based at the AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Dallas (Dallas Center).

The Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture (IHA) is the world's first academic institute to bring together precision nutrition, responsive agriculture, and social and behavioral research to reduce diet-related chronic disease and lower health care costs in a way that supports producers and the environment. Composed of three focus areas - Healthy Living, Responsive Agriculture, and Precision Nutrition - the IHA brings together experts across many disciplines, including agriculture; nutrition; behavioral, social and life sciences; engineering; data and computation science; and economics. Healthy Living aims to rapidly apply knowledge from research to the needs of producers and consumers, and conduct dissemination and behavioral implementation research that quickly translates findings from the other two focus areas to the community and producers.

The Program Aide will contribute to achieving the goals of the Healthy Living program and projects that are focused on health equity and health disparities; food access, food systems, food insecurity, and dietary patterns and behaviors; physical activity behaviors and intervention development; policy system and environmental change; citizen science and community-engaged research; and mHealth technologies for monitoring, assessment, and intervention implementation. The Program Aide will provide project managers and staff with administrative and technical support for Healthy Living research projects and initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Prepares materials for and attends study recruitment and data collection.

• Prepares materials for and assists with implementing Healthy Living programs (e.g., physical activity, nutrition).

• Enters and cleans data in online databases (e.g., REDCap, Qualtrics, Excel, SPSS).

• Support other office-related tasks (e.g., attending meetings, taking meeting minutes, organizing supplies).

• Other administrative and research project tasks as assigned.

Required Education/Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to communicate well and excellent interpersonal abilities.

• Ability to multitask and work cooperatively with others. Interpersonal and communication skills. Planning and organizational skills.

• Knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet, database, and presentation applications, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, etc.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bilingual (English and Spanish).

All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution's verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution's procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Veterans/Disability Employer.