Specialist, Population Health & Equity

About the Role

At Cincinnati Children's, our mission is to make children's health better. We foster a holistic team approach, advancing science and discovery with a shared purpose to do better.

Key Responsibilities

• Departmental Support
• Create and execute deliverables that contribute to improved outcomes.
• Assist in developing reports, documents, presentations, and communication materials for cross-sector and interdepartmental initiatives.
• Compile, maintain, and manage centralized resource libraries and knowledge repositories.
• Administrative Support
• Set up and manage call schedules and coordinate meetings with departments, community partners, and experts.
• Coordinate and schedule logistics for assigned projects and programs, including meetings, conferences, and appointments.
• Prepare meeting agendas, take and distribute meeting notes, track action items, and coordinate development of resultant materials.
• Serve as a liaison between clinical, operational, research, data analytics, and community teams.
• Adapt to scheduling and communication needs of diverse internal and external stakeholders.
• Program/Project Coordination
• Coordinate assigned projects, including development and maintenance of plans, timelines, milestone tracking, progress monitoring, and resource requirements.
• Contribute to strategic planning and development processes, identify opportunities for growth, and support implementation of new initiatives.
• Determine priorities for responsibilities and assignments.
• Track the progress of initiatives and prepare internal reports and stakeholder communications.
• Meet expectations for deliverable quality and timeliness.
• Research Coordination/Scholarly Dissemination
• Provide early-stage research coordination, including support for study start-up, regulatory documentation, and Institutional Review Board (IRB) preparation and submission.
• Assist project teams in establishing standardized approaches to data collection, storage, documentation, and data quality monitoring.
• Coordinate data collection and storage workflows across project teams and stakeholders.
• Coordinate recruitment and screening for research projects.
• Conduct literature reviews and environmental scans to inform program development, research design, manuscripts, grant applications, and strategic initiatives.
• Provide support for dissemination of scholarly work, including journal selection, manuscript outline alignment, supplemental literature searches, and manuscript development.
• Manage bibliographic databases and citation libraries.
• Assist with development, formatting, and proofreading of scholarly products.
• Design and prepare publication-ready figures, tables, and supplementary materials.
• Coordinate post-publication dissemination activities and support translation of academic research outputs into accessible materials.
• Collaboration and Adaptability
• Pursue interdisciplinary collaboration across clinical, research, operational, academic, and community settings.
• Engage effectively with community members, organizations, and cross-sector partners.
• Demonstrate emphasis on relationship building, collaboration, flexibility, and adaptability to change.
• Support diverse teams through the research, implementation, dissemination, and translation continuum.
• Maintain a continuous learning mindset and apply systems-thinking approaches to addressing population health and health equity challenges.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• High school diploma or equivalent and 5+ years of work experience
• OR Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of work experience
• OR Master's Degree and 0+ years of work experience

Qualifications (Preferred)

• Bachelor’s degree in English, Writing, or related field
• Experience providing editorial support
• Experience in public health, health services, or community-engaged research