Project Coordinator In Community Engaged Research

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Project Coordinator in Community Engaged Research

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Work type: Full-Time

Location: University City

• Philadelphia, PA

Categories: Drexel University, Dornsife School of Public Health

Job Summary

Applications are invited for a project coordinator to work on urban health and community engagement research in Philadelphia, PA.

The Department of Community Health and Prevention at the Dornsife School of Public Health is seeking a project coordinator interested in the social determinants of health, places and health, and urban health more broadly, including applying community-based participatory research approaches to urban health inequities.

With approximately 50% of their time, the project coordinator will work with several large studies in West Philadelphia, assisting with partnership development, data collection, analysis, and report and paper writing to support research and evaluation activities and contribute to scientific literature related to place-based initiative evaluation and community-led systems change. These initiatives include the US Department of Housing and Urban Development-designated West Philadelphia Promise Zone, the US Department of Education-funded West Philly Promise Neighborhood initiative, the US Department of Justice-funded Byrne Criminal Justice Initiative, and the many community partnerships who support them. The goal of each of these initiatives is to improve the health, safety, economic development, and/or educational outcomes of children, adults, families, and communities in West Philadelphia by creating/enhancing place-based systems of support for community residents. The project coordinator will also work with the ComPASS program, an NIH-funded initiative focused on community-led structural interventions throughout the United States. Drexel leads the national coordination center, which supports the community grantees in their planning, implementation, and evaluation of their structural interventions in their local communities. The project coordinator will help with training development, website content, dissemination of community grantee successes and structural intervention best practices, and other tasks as needed.

With the other half of the project coordinator's time, they will provide project coordination for the Evaluating the Public Heath Cedar project. The goal of this project is to collect pilot data to begin the community-engaged evaluation of this place-based, co-location model of healthcare services with public health programs. Results will establish a baseline and also help to further refine the ongoing evaluation design for this innovative model. The Drexel team is leading the patient data and community indicators components of the evaluation plan, as well as supporting PHMC in their lead of the community survey and stakeholder key informant interviews.

Essential Functions

Grant management duties 30%

• Meet regularly with Principal Investigators and project teams • Create and implement project workplans • Lead grant reporting to funders.

• Communicate with Business Managers regarding budget.

Supervisory duties 15%

• Supervise and manage weekly schedule for 3 community resident staff and up to 2 student research assistants.

Administrative duties 30%

• Schedule and attend regular team meetings.

• Record minutes and action items and distribute to team members and partners.

• Maintain up-to-date email lists of team members, partners, and funders.

• Purchase supplies, complete transaction allocation reporting, and maintain records of travel arrangements and reimbursements, and SmartSource purchases.

• Assist with coordinating event logistics and materials for Cedar Campus Launch and Learn.

Dissemination duties 25%

• Conduct literature reviews for papers.

• Assist with paper-writing, including seeking and incorporating team members edits, drafting tables, and managing citations.

• Seek journals for paper submissions, format papers for submission.

• Assist with presenting results at scientific meetings.

• Lead or assist with writing brief reports for dissemination to multiple community and policymaker audiences.

Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• A master's degree in social and behavioral sciences, epidemiology, sociology, demography, biostatistics, or anther related public health or social science fields or the equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• Please review the Equivalency Chart for additional information.

• 1 or more years of relevant experience is required.

• Comfortable using Zoom, Outlook, Word, Excel, and other Microsoft Office programs.

• Experience with literature review methods: search logic, search terms, databases, summary tables

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience conducting and coordinating public health research.

• Interest in or familiarity with community-engaged research.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Well organized and excellent attention to detail.

• Good interpersonal skills.

Location

• University City

• Philadelphia, PA

Additional Information

This position is classified as exempt, grade I. Compensation for this grade ranges from a minimum pf $41,120.00 to a maximum of $61,680.00 per year. Please note that the offered rate for this position typically aligns with the minimum to midrange of this grade, but it can vary based on the successful candidate's qualifications and experience, department budget, and an internal equity review.

We encourage you to explore Drexel's Professional Staff salary structure and Compensation Guidelines & Policies for more details on our compensation framework.

You can also find valuable information about our benefits in the Benefits Brochure.

Special Instructions to the Applicant

Please make sure you upload your CV/resume and cover letter when submitting your application.

A review of applicants will begin once a suitable candidate pool is identified.

Advertised: Jun 17 2024 Eastern Daylight Time

Applications close: Jul 17 2024 Eastern Daylight Time