Public Health Practice Manager - Rollins School of Public Health

Emory University Job Opportunity

Emory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. We welcome candidates who can contribute to the excellence of our academic community.

Job Description

Manages and provides technical and supervisory oversight to projects, programs, or studies. Uses specialized knowledge and experience with public health principles to analyze, develop, implement, and promote solutions to public health issues/problems. Works effectively with study, program, or project teams and/or study sites and successfully manages related activities to achieve goals within required timeframes and budgets. Assists and or helps with the design, implementation, and maintenance of program or study-related systems and procedures. Manages and provides guidance, clarification, and feedback to PHPA staff. Develops process improvements to enhance efficiency and quality. Provides consultative resources to principal investigators or to project, program, or study managers and coordinators. Prepares proposals, protocols, data analysis plans, reports, manuscripts, and presentation of study findings. Addresses public health issues by providing education, technical assistance, advocacy, public awareness, and research. Works with programs or studies designed to evaluate the prevalence or surveillance of public health issues and the effectiveness of targeted interventions. May coordinate clinical study sites to ensure patient recruitment and data collection standards compliance. May provide technical assistance to organizations to include presentations, websites, strategies, and educational forums to address specific public health issues. May design, develop, and conduct targeted training initiatives. May collaborate with external organizations to develop action plans and goals to achieve specific objectives. Identifies new potential projects, studies, or partners. May co-author papers for publication and presentation at professional meetings or conferences. Performs related responsibilities as required.

Minimum Qualifications

A master's degree in Public Health, a master of science degree in Public Health or Health Education, or a master's degree in Development Practice and six years of relevant applied public health experience OR a master's degree in another field and seven years of public health experience. Extensive data management and analysis experience. Grant development, management, and administration experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Demonstrated ability to design and adapt evidence-based mental health training curricula and learning materials that support adoption, scaling, and sustainability of effective practices. Extensive experience planning and delivering engaging trainings, workshops, and learning collaboratives in behavioral health settings and for behavioral health leaders. Experience working in behavioral health community settings; possess strong understanding of practices, strengths, and challenges within those environments. Proven ability to coach and guide organizations through implementation, addressing barriers and strengthening sustained practice adoption. Ability to travel to attend and present at national and regional behavioral health meetings and conferences.

Note: This role will be granted the opportunity to work from home regularly but must be able to commute to Emory University on a flexible weekly schedule based upon business needs. Schedule is based on agreed upon guidelines of department. This role requires residency in the state of GA. Emory reserves the right to change remote work status with notice to employee.

Additional Details

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