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The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (PRC) and the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE) is recruiting a Program Manager who has research/evaluation interest and/or experience in the area of community-based participatory research and interventions for addressing health equity. The Program Manager will work with PRC and CARE leadership, specifically Kathleen O’Connor Duffany, CARE’s Director of Research and Evaluation, on a year-long initiative to increase COVID-19 vaccination uptake in New Haven and the Valley. This initiative will focus on identifying, implementing, and evaluating effective strategies to improve COVID-19 vaccine access and confidence. This position is responsible for coordinating and supporting all research and evaluation activities related to this initiative.
Program Manager – Job Description, 1 yr fixed – with possibility to renew
Reporting to K. Duffany
The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (PRC) is part of a network of 26 research centers that are university-based and serve a vital role within the public health system. PRCs work to identify public health problems and to develop, test, and evaluate public health interventions that can be applied widely, particularly in underserved communities. A main focus of PRCs include improving population health outcomes and contributing to reducing health disparities. The PRC program’s grantees conduct research that contributes to improved community and population health.
The Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE), co-housed at Yale School of Public Health and Southern Connecticut State University, was established to identify solutions to health challenges through community-based research and projects focusing on social, environmental, and behavioral risk factors. CARE’s mission is to improve health in New Haven among people most impacted by disparities, including black and brown communities and low-income populations through collaborative research, practice, and engagement. (For more information, see www.carenhv.org).
The Yale-Griffin PRC and CARE is recruiting a Program Manager who has research/evaluation interest and/or experience in the area of community-based participatory research and interventions for addressing health equity. The Program Manager will work with PRC and CARE leadership on a year-long initiative to increase COVID-19 vaccination uptake in New Haven and the Valley. This initiative will focus on identifying, implementing, and evaluating effective strategies to improve COVID-19 vaccine access and confidence. This position is responsible for coordinating and supporting all research and evaluation activities related to this initiative.
Essential Duties:
Required Education and Experience
Master’s Degree in a related discipline and three years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Required Skill/Ability 1:
A commitment to social justice and health equity.
Required Skill/Ability 2:
Program and project management skills.
Required Skill/Ability 3:
Strong interpersonal and oral and written communication skills.
Required Skill/Ability 4:
Demonstrated experience supporting a research study and community-based outreach or public health-related studies.
Required Skill/Ability 5:
Excellent time management and organizational skills. Ability to effectively, efficiently and independently work under pressure, and to set priorities among multiple competing tasks. Demonstrated self-motivation, independence, consistency and reliability.
Required Skill/Ability 6:
Ability to create and follow research project related supporting documents; the ability to report on the status of project deliverables and draft and submit project updates to the study sponsor.
Preferred Education, Experience and Skills: Experience with research and evaluation of community programs. Experience with quantitative data collection and analysis, including descriptive and inferential statistics. Experience conducting and coding focus groups, interviews, and qualitative surveys. Experience with SAS, NVIVO (or similar), ACCESS, Qualtrics or SurveyMonkey. Spanish language proficiency.
Contact: Kathleen OConnor Duffany kathleen.oconnorduffany@yale.edu
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