Program Coordinator, Seasonal - Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences' Nurturing Resilience Initiative

The Seasonal Program Coordinator will assist with Strong Kids-related site communication, scheduling, participant tracking, data collection, program documentation, and coordination of required activities. They will also provide support for other NRI activities as needed, including administrative coordination, partner follow-up, meeting support, and tracking program deliverables.

Seasonal roles are temporary appointments, lasting no longer than 4.5 months within a 365-day period.

Position Summary:

Provides overall design, execution, management, and effectiveness of public education and/or outreach programs in order to ensure the achievement of its assigned goals and objectives.

Essential Functions:

• Coordinates, develops, implements, and evaluates the delivery system for education and outreach programs in targeted communities.
• Participates in all phases of projects and in research related activities, including assessing regional needs for program education, developing regional outreach plans based on needs assessment findings.
• Researches and analyzes data pertaining to education, and attends functions to keep abreast of relevant scientific and technical developments related to programs.
• Communicates with community and a variety of health care professionals to share objectives, outcomes by writing articles for newsletters, web pages, and other publications. Acts as a liaison with appropriate institutional agents; prepares/makes oral presentations at professional meetings.
• Uses program databases to collect program evaluation data; writes program reports and case studies to document outreach efforts; submits abstracts to professional meetings.
• Maintains current scientific, technical and regulatory environment information concerning relevant developments related to program area.
• Interact extensively with the public and/or external organizations to facilitate programs. Participates in national and regional task forces and work groups to provide capacity building assistance and information to partners; applies health education theories, models, and concepts to partner activities. Ensures that plans and protocols are followed to ensure compliance with all federal, state laws and UTHSC-H policies, rules and regulations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Certification/Skills:

Minimum Education:

Bachelor's Degree required May substitute required education with equivalent years of experience beyond the minimum experience requirement.

Minimum Experience:

3 years of related experience required May substitute required experience with equivalent years of education beyond the minimum education requirement.

Physical Requirements:

Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.

Security Sensitive:

This position is a security-sensitive position pursuant to Texas Education Code §51.215 and Texas Government Code
§411.094. To the extent that a position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as
defined in Texas Business and Commerce Code §117.001(2), the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the
infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired for and to continue to be employed in that position. Personnel in such
positions, and similarly situated state contractors, will be routinely reviewed to determine whether things such as criminal
history or continuous connections to the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the
applicant, employee, or contractor from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure. A foreign
adversary is a nation listed in 15 C.F.R. §791.4.

Residency Requirement:

Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.