Program Coordinator - McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth in Houston, Texas

Job Description:

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.

Position Key Accountabilities:

• 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.
• Other duties as assigned.

Certification/Skills:

• Knowledge of MS Office, SPSS or statistics software applications.
• Bilingual in Spanish may be preferred.

• Bachelor's degree or relevant experience in lieu of education.

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

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 job class may contain positions that are security sensitive and thereby subject to the provisions of Texas Education Code § 51.215

Residency Requirement:

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