Health Engagement Specialist

Coordinates community outreach efforts and activities for the program.

• Implement recruitment plans according to agreed schedule such as placing print ads arranging television or radio spots preparing mailings etc. and provide detailed reports on recruiting outreach and screening results.
• Coordinate the community outreach and social marketing platform and maintain a consistent message in the community regarding the program mission.
• Develop and execute community engagement and study recruitment plans and strategies to include marketing community outreach health education etc. for all clinical research studies.
• Plan and organize scientific workshops public meetings and symposia.
• Coordinate capacity building opportunities to enhance community organizations awareness of government funding opportunities supporting research and to increase dissemination of research findings.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Foster engagement opportunities across the NHLBIs multiple and diverse audiences to promote inclusiveness in biomedical research participation and to ensure that new discoveries clinical trials findings and progress on HLBS research initiatives are effectively disseminated.
• Serve as Project Manager for developing the NHLBI Strategic Engagement Plan. Meet with NHLBI leadership senior level program leads and key partners to discuss past current and future projects to inform development of an Institutewide Engagement Plan.
• Support complex biomedical research engagement efforts. Participate in the evaluation and/or dissemination efforts of studies to develop health communication materials for diverse audiences.

• Coordinate and maintain focus groups regarding social impact and community understanding regarding vaccine clinical trials.
• Work with staff on dissemination of research findings to the advisory board and to the broader study community.
• Serve as a project coordinator for the research studies and become involved in organizing available time and space for community health and needs assessments
• Manage the logistics of community advisory board meetings for the lab capturing expert feedback and following up on resulting recommendations from each meeting.
• Assist the Chief Engagement Officer of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) with developing and coordinating strategic engagement activities that support the Institutes mission and advance health equity across heart lung blood and sleep (HLBS) research and related public health initiatives.
• Create and effectively deliver internal and external presentations to multiple communities of interest including federal staff community organizations and leaders professional organizations etc.

Establishes collaborative relationships with a variety of community organizations (e.g. community health centers state medical agencies managed care organizations).

• Organize and liaison with community members to develop programs that will engage and educate communities to increase awareness of research.
• Serve as subject matter expert and provide technical assistance to other NIH departments around recruitment health education advertisement outreach and retention.
• Discuss patient recruitment and accrual to clinical studies with researchers; government agencies private sector healthcare organizations community organizations and visitors.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Coordinates the analysis and evaluation of outreach activities including internal and external partnership.

• Review communitybased communications plans and programs as they evolve and provide recommendations for change and improvement.
• Manage the production and implementation of multiple forms of recruitment strategies including television radio and direct mail advertising campaigns.
• Assess published and public literature regarding best practices for recruitment retention and outreach.
• Assist the Chief Engagement Officer of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) with developing and coordinating strategic engagement activities that support the Institutes mission and advance health equity across heart lung blood and sleep (HLBS) research and related public health initiatives.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Works closely with management to coordinate content of materials advertisements and marketing messages.

• Coordinate relevant data including facts figures statistics and graphics for use in documents and presentations.
• Monitor and evaluate of program metrics and management of program timelines.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Work across OSPEEC to implement strategies to ensure that accurate and timely HLBS messages reach NHLBIs key constituents and audiences (federal and state health officials researchers health professionals HLBS related organizations and associations advocacy groups other stakeholders and the public) as appropriate.
• Review informational and educational material for technical scientific and programmatic accuracy.
• Create and effectively deliver internal and external presentations to multiple communities of interest including federal staff community organizations and leaders professional organizations etc