Auto req ID
110221BR
Duke Entity
MEDICAL CENTER
Job Code
1281 RESEARCH PROGRAM LEADER, SR
Job Description
Occupational Summary
Provide leadership for the Duke Cancer Institute’s [DCI] Office of Health Equity [OHE] to achieve our overall Vision and Mission to improve community health by engaging our neighbors.  Work with the DCI faculty, staff, stakeholders, and colleagues to lead the community-focused programs within the OHE and the Clinical Research Office [CRO].  Provide overall direction, coordination and implementation of all DCI’s community impact-designed projects to reduce cancer outcomes disparities in the DCI community.  Serve as the community impact expert who provides staff support and allocates financial resources to advance projects.  Work collaboratively with all DCI units where such disparities are greatest, and engage community stakeholders and leaders to design and deploy interventions.  Work in partnership with the evaluation and outcomes teams to collect complex data points, including medical care quality data, to report impact.  Provide management of the day-to-day administrative duties of the OHE team. Promote an organizational culture that values trust, commitment to the mission, scientific integrity, and professional and organizational growth.

Work Preformed

Operations 
Working within the OHE team to provide overall direction, coordination and implementation of a community impact-designed initiative to reduce cancer disparities in DCI’s immediate community and across its Catchment Area.  In collaboration with DCI Leadership develop a project management plan to identify and address the root causes of disparities.  Identify cadence for launch and managing deployment for each project, event or initiative based on resources and community willingness.  Encourage a high level of awareness and build buy-in for health equity work among staff, community members, and affiliates. 

Recruit, train, and manage a team of community health professionals to provide subject matter expertise and support to the DCI.  Recommend avenues for investment and expenditures based on input from leadership and alignment with the goals of the project.  Oversee coordination of community meetings, community activations, collection of data, and other administrative support.  

Manage financial resources, estimated portfolio is one million, within the project in accordance with applicable policies and processes; prepare complex budget; ensure collection of time and effort reports; ensure accuracy of expense allocations.

Manage the programmatic and administrative responsibilities of the OHE team.  Oversee tracking of assignments, deliverables, and due dates.  Oversee production of routine and complex correspondence, materials, presentations, and reports.  Oversee development of quarterly communications newsletter.  Oversee scheduling and meeting planning support for conference calls, in-person meeting and large-scale complex events.  Oversee collection of time & effort reports, allocation of expenses within accounting framework, project budgets, projections, and variance report. 

Maintain and expand partnerships with survivorship programs, the community and rural education to facilitate cancer prevention and clinical research. 

Develop and collect metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of the program.  Oversee development of routine reports to funders and DCI leadership. 

Data 
Working in partnership with the leadership and faculty to collect complex data points, including medical care quality data, to report impact to funder.  Ensure the data collection and evaluation plan is followed by stakeholders and staff.  Deploy staff to collect and analyze data in collaboration with leadership and faculty projects. 

Communication 
Working collaboratively with DCI and future DCI affiliates, cities and metropolitan areas where such disparities are greatest and engage community stakeholders and leaders to design and deploy interventions. 
Ensures regular communication and integration with leadership of stakeholders within the catchment areas.  Identify community stakeholders and leaders for inclusion within the projects.  Schedules meetings, conference calls and other activities to ensure program design and delivery. 

Leadership 
Promote an organizational culture that values trust, commitment to the mission, scientific integrity, and professional and organizational growth.

Lead the OHE staff.  Create a team culture that fosters open communication, motivates staff, and encourages creativity.  Seek out, listen to, accept and act on feedback.  Establish regular communication methods and meetings with staff; collectively and individually.  Be available to staff on a routine basis to provide leadership and mentoring. 

Provide staff with clear measureable goals, monitor performance and quality of work.  Assign staff duties and responsibilities; cross-train and reassign as needed.  Foster and encourage the professional development of staff.  Oversee staff training and certifications to ensure compliance with standard operating procedures [SOPs], regulations and processes. 

Ethics
Serve as a subject matter expert for health care disparities providing guidance and thought leadership, to partners, donors, and the media as requested.

Provides subject matter expertise with regard to selection, design and implementation of community interventions.  Ensures that the tenets of DCI are upheld, and that scientific rigor is maintained.  

Know and follow applicable policies, standard operating procedures [SOPs], regulations and requirements.  Maintain Duke and project specific training and certification requirements.

Other work as assigned. 

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

 
Location
Durham
Requisition Number
401560026
Position Title
Duke Cancer Institute Office of Health Equity Program Manager
Shift
First/Day
Job Family Level
69
Full Time / Part Time
FULL TIME
Regular / Temporary
Regular
Department Name
DCI Director's Office
Minimum Qualifications
Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging.

Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.Education

Work requires one of the following: 1.Completion of a bachelor's degree plus, a minimum of eight years of research experience 2.Completion of a master's degree, plus a minimum of six years of research experience 3.Completion of a doctoral degree, plus a minimum of four years of research experience.

Preferences
The preferred candidate will have a Master in Public Health or related field plus 10 or more years of relevant experience in public health project management, including impact-evaluation, reporting and other experience related to community outreach and disparities work.  Experience in managing a multi-site matrixed organization with strong leadership and managerial skills.  Deep experience in understanding evaluations and outcomes. 


SkillsDemonstrated experience managing projects and staff; excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to explain and discuss scientific and technical content in clear and concise terms to lay audiences; ability to think quickly, critically and strategically; demonstrated experience with quantitative and qualitative data analysis; excellent and instinctive service and customer relationship skills; and excellent organizational and contract and project management.   Experience with complex financial and project management. Extensive public health and evaluation expertise. Solid working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, Advanced Excel knowledge, Grants Management Systems.Strong organizational, project management, planning, communication and customer service skills.Knowledge of public health program evaluation design and development, health statistics and knowledge management required.Detailed understanding and experience in addressing disparities and health equity issues.