Project Coordinator/ Research Coordinator

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

Position will require some experience in planning, implementing, organizing, overseeing, facilitating meetings or administering a community service, human service, health promotion initiative or health program.

Position will provide support to sub-contractors and consultants and faculty members. Two subcontracts include Morris Heights Health Center/MHHC and the New York Academy of Medicine, NYAM. Healthy Start consultants and faculty will be content experts delivering a specific educational service and facilitating events and activities.

Position will liaise with Bronx Healthy Start Partnership and public health agencies and interact with FQHC Healthy Start program staff on a daily-to-weekly basis.

Specific responsibilities include:

Work with Project Director (PD) to support implementation of the Bronx Healthy Start components and initiatives, including the development of new marketing tools, event tracking and planning efforts, sub-contractors and staffs, and partner network development. Oversee the development and facilitation of the Healthy Start Partnership Community Consortium (CAN) and events.

Recruiting and introducing new partners to the Community Consortium, set meeting agenda and facilitate monthly meetings and periodic community events. Assist PD in planning and facilitating Bronx Fetal Infant Mortality Review, (FIMR) Team meetings and events to support the Infant Health Equity and Community Consortium work. Oversee the development and coordination of training seminars for staff and/or community partners as it relates to Healthy Start and MCH benchmarks, curricula, the Collective Impact Model, and continuous quality improvement for achieving the program goals and social support services.

Assist with data collection, analysis, and cleaning; perform regular audits to ensure that the data collected from the sub-contractors and other partnership sites are complete and accurate, and that the services being provided that maintain the highest fidelity to those outlined in the Healthy Start proposal and congruent with HRSA's grantee benchmarks Develop appropriate progress reports on the initiatives for the PD, and the Healthy Start partners. Ensure that adverse events, programmatic problems, and protocol deviations are submitted to the PD when appropriate. Arrange meetings of Bronx Healthy Start partners (e.g., face-to-face, teleconference, and mixed), circulate meeting agendas, prepare, and circulate minutes, and maintain historical records for preparing annual, quarterly, and monthly reports.

Represent the Partnership at internal and external academic meetings and community events. Act as a liaison to project partners to discuss new educational and counseling initiatives that could be implemented. Assist PD with preparation of grant proposals (new and competing renewals as well as related and complementary initiatives) to support initiatives, such as the FIMR, Infant Health Equity, collective impact, and work of the CAN. Assist in maintaining the Healthy Start website and social media pages and other promotional materials.

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's Degree required with 3-5 years of related experience in field of community health, maternal and child health, health education, or public health. Master's Degree preferred. Clinical and/or health education certification (e.g., SOPHE, etc.) also preferred.

Skills and Competencies

Must be proficient in Microsoft Office software and have the ability to apply technology to resolve problems. Experience with on-line seminar software preferred.

Must demonstrate understanding of applications of statistical software and ability to discuss and critique Healthy Start community data and to follow-up evaluation data analysis. Outstanding interpersonal and oral and written communication skills, judgment, initiative, and attention to detail are essential. Must be able manage competing priorities while supporting the sub-contractors and partners.

Can be relied upon to ensure that activities within areas of specific responsibility are completed in a timely manner and within budget. Observe project goals and timelines and reviews progress at defined intervals. Ability to work well in a team setting and independently is essential. Utilizes appropriate methods for interacting effectively and professionally with persons of all ages and from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, educational, racial and ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, lifestyles, and physical abilities.

Minimum Salary Range

USD $63,000.00/Yr.

Maximum Salary Range

USD $70,000.00/Yr.

About Us

The Research Coordinator for the Bronx Healthy Start Partnership-Albert Einstein College of Medicine will work to ensure quality and integrity of the implementation of the Healthy Start Program and its various initiatives and required data collection and reporting, and community and stakeholder engagement. The incumbent will have the ability to provide leadership, work on initiatives to support the MCH benchmarks, and other efforts that will grow and strengthen the partner network.

Knowledge is required of maternal-infant health, infant and child development, prenatal and postpartum care, parent-child interactions and relationships, services for the 0-3 age population, and the dynamics of child abuse and neglect; and experience with reflective practice and with health and social services that embrace the concepts of family-centered and strength-based service provision to culturally diverse communities/families. The Research Coordinator works closely with all Healthy Start professional and support staff and identifies barriers and develops plans for corrective action where Healthy Start Benchmarks are not met.

The Bronx Healthy Start Partnership is an initiative to eliminate disparities in perinatal health. This program is grant funded by the federal Health Services and Services Administration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau's Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services. This national program aims to address the following goals: a) reduce infant mortality and adverse perinatal outcomes and disparities by 1) improving women's health, 2) Improving family health and wellness, 3) Promoting systems change. 4) Assuring impact and effectiveness through workforce development, data collection, quality improvement, performance monitoring, and evaluation.

Therefore, our sub-contractors will focus on a) efforts to improve the health of women before, during, and after pregnancy; b) outreach and enrollment in health insurance coverage; c) coordination and facilitation of access to health care services; d) removing barriers and support for prevention, including clinical preventive services, inter-conceptional health, and health promotion; e) assistance with reproductive life planning; and f) focusing on prevention and health promotion (e.g. breastfeeding, immunization, safe sleep, family planning, smoking cessation, and use of the evidence-based, standardized curricula, Partners for a Healthy Baby).

This position requires excellent verbal and written skills and the ability to prioritize and manage time. The Research Coordinator must have the ability to handle confidential information and be tactful in giving and receiving such information.

This data-driven program requires typing, data entry, strong organizational skills, consistently meeting deadlines, and good stress management/self-care skills. The Research Coordinator will exhibit leadership and collaborative skills.