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Special Populations Program Coordinator

Level: 10

Overview:

The Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) provides infrastructure resources to research teams across the University to facilitate translational research (i.e., moving discoveries from the laboratory to human testing to real-world settings). Within the CTSI, the Special Populations Core facilitates research that promotes health equity for populations that have traditionally been under-represented in health research or excluded altogether. The Special Populations Program Coordinator will coordinate and oversee programmatic and administrative activities to meet overarching aims and objectives of the Special Populations Core and related CTSI Activities. Major activities of the Special Populations Core include offering pilot funding for research projects, cataloging training opportunities and clinical research registries, and supporting and developing new tools and programs to help engage special populations in research. The Program Coordinator will also contribute to a portfolio of federally-funded research projects on public health screening programs in pediatric populations.

Specific Responsibilities:

1. Provide program coordination for the Special Populations Core
2. Provide administrative and programmatic coordination to achieve the Special Populations Core strategic aims.
3. Collaborate with other core personnel to ensure coordination and synergy on key activities including resource catalog, registry database, research consultations, and others.
4. Organize meetings, develop agendas, set up web conferencing, and serve as staff point person for meetings among the Special Populations Core stakeholders.
5. In partnership with the Communications Core, develop and maintain strategies to build awareness of program activities and resources through departmental presentations, appearances at institutional research symposia, CTSI newsletters, and websites.
6. Track program metrics and generate reports for CTSA administrators and federal sponsors.

Preferred Qualifications: Strongly prefer experience in an administrative or operational capacity in biomedical research operations. Strongly prefer experience in translational research environment. Strongly prefer previous experience in an academic medical center. Strongly prefer previous experience with federally funded research programs, particularly large projects. Strong interpersonal and oral and written communication skills. Strong project management, administrative, planning, prioritization, and organizational skills, and exceptional attention to detail. Self-motivated, willing to take initiative, and ability to work independently. Ability to manage competing and changing priorities and multiple tasks under contractually-defined timelines

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Work requires analytical, communications and organizational skills generally acquired through completion of a bachelor's degree program.

Experience: Work requires one year of experience in clinical or translational research or program administration, OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE.

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