Community Research Coordinator Public Health Sciences

JOB SUMMARY

The primary duty of the Community Research Coordinator (CRC) will be to provide communityengaged educational opportunities for potential research participants to improve awareness about brain health Alzheimers disease and the importance of brain tissue donation. The CRC will create and adapt learning materials and make presentations to the public as well as participate in existing community events around these research topics. This position will manage multiple steps of the brain tissue donation process with potential donors including engaging in recruitment activities completing paperwork for registering the donor arranging the tissue harvest and following up with donors and their families before and after the brain donation. The position will also assist in training brain tissue donation coordinators at several sites in other states. The CRC will communicate and coordinate donor activities with persons at the brain endowment bank. The CRC will be responsible for spearheading and maintaining retention activities for participants in the brain tissue donation program. The CRC will be responsible for developing strong and strategic partnerships with organizations at the local county regional state national and international levels to support research goals for increasing awareness of the importance of brain health and brain donation. The CRC must demonstrate expertise in community engagement and outreach methods and is responsible for developing improving tracking and maintaining relationships between the research project and communitybased organizations local health care providers and community stakeholders among others to build community capacity for research engagement and health promotion.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

• Bachelors degree in a relevant discipline such as Psychology Nursing Economics or basic science with two years of relevant administrative or medical experience in research coordination or other related activities; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Masters degree preferred.
• Fluency in Spanish preferred.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

1. Assists PIs and other team members with planning developing and implementing community outreach strategies.
2. Plans develops and coordinates community organizing strategies and event planning.
3. Assists the PIs in working with communitybased organizations churches community health centers and other stakeholder organizations and persons as assigned.
4. Participates in developing focus group activities.
5. Works in clinical research and communitybased activities.
6. Educates community members about brain health brain tissue donation and Alzheimers disease research.
7. Recommends and participates in outreach strategies and identifies trends impacting outreach efforts in various populations.
8. Sources identifies initiates and maintains contacts with community leaders and organizations and generates positive community relations to ensure the success of future outreach education and research projects.
9. Maintains uptodate complete and accurate documentation and tracks programmatic activities reporting regularly to demonstrate outcomes and performance improvement.
10. Identifies locates and enlists cooperation of individuals groups agencies and organizations in outreach activities.
11. Designs and tracks forms newsletters web pages and other tools as appropriate to ensure the success of assigned projects.
12. Performs other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to communicate effectively in person and in writing with a wide range of people.
• Must be comfortable with public speaking and giving brief presentations to community members.
• Ability to implement communitybased projects.
• Ability to prioritize effectively competing requests.
• Organizational and time management skills.
• Ability/temperament to adapt to changing conditions and diverse job tasks.
• Strong initiative outgoing and energetic.
• Achievement and goaloriented.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrates team work and professionalism.
• Basic computer skills required.
• Flexibility with work schedule and location.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Clean comfortable office environment.
• Significant local travel required.
• Must be able to drive a car.