Public Health Program Associate

About the Role

The Department of Epidemiology at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health seeks a Public Health Program Associate to provide project management support for a portfolio aimed at improving health outcomes related to HIV, substance abuse, and women’s health. This role supports two USG-funded grants focused on vulnerable populations.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide project management support for funded projects.
• Establish and track project progress against timelines.
• Liaise between project team members, funders, and stakeholders.
• Coordinate and document project calls and communications.
• Track budgetary spenddown.
• Lead subcontract, regulatory, milestone, reporting, and personnel processes.
• Plan and forecast post-award budgets, monitor effort, and manage reporting (RPPR), IRB renewal, DUA renewal, and data destruction requirements.
• Ensure completion of subcontract setup, amendment, invoicing, and completion processes.
• Contribute to new activities such as pre-award grant submission and "just in time" processes.
• Support research activities by interfacing with data collection and data teams, reviewing reports, and developing data collection tools.
• Develop or give presentations.
• Support meetings and communication for all projects (agendas, minutes, follow-ups).
• Support team member travel and expense reporting.
• Support and mentor other team members, such as graduate research assistants.
• Analyze, develop, implement, and promote strategies to address public health issues and challenges.
• Provide education, technical assistance, advocacy, public awareness, and research related to public health issues.
• Work with programs or studies designed to evaluate the prevalence or surveillance of public health issues and intervention effectiveness.
• May provide technical assistance to organizations through presentations, web-based resources, strategies, and educational forums.
• May work with clinical study sites on patient recruitment and data collection standards.
• Assist with data collection and data analysis.
• Contribute to proposals, protocols, data analysis plans, reports, manuscripts, and presentations of study findings.
• May assist in designing, developing, and conducting targeted training initiatives.
• May collaborate with external organizations to develop action plans and goals.
• Perform related responsibilities as required.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Project Management
• Budget Tracking
• Subcontract Management
• Regulatory Processes
• Reporting
• Communication
• Data Collection
• Data Analysis
• Presentation Development
• Mentorship

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.
• OR a master's degree in another field and one year of public health experience.

This role offers the opportunity to work from home regularly but requires the ability to commute to Emory University on a flexible weekly schedule based on business needs.

Residency in the state of GA is required.