Category: Jobs
Job Opening at HEAL Initiative – Project Coordinator
BUSPH GH Alum from 2012, Joseph Scarpelli is looking for a Project Coordinator at the HEAL Initiative in the San Francisco Bay Area!
HEAL Initiative
HEAL Initiative is a young, spirited organization that aims to make global health training
across the world immersive, longitudinal, and equitable. Founded in 2014, HEAL aims to
make serving poor populations a first choice for health professionals across the world.
Currently we have nearly 50 fellows across 8 countries including the United States in
Navajo Nation and Oakland. We work in collaboration with local communities and local
organizations. For more information visit, www.healinitiative.org
Position Overview
The HEAL Initiative is recruiting a full-time Project Coordinator to join our small,
passionate, and dynamic team. This position will be based in San Francisco, California.
The Coordinator will provide a variety of administrative and project-based support for a
number of ongoing global health initiatives within HEAL.
Some key responsibilities include:
HEAL Fellow Credentialing
• Serve as point person for fellow credentialing at UCSF and as needed at the
domestic partner sites (in collaboration with site-based faculty/staff).
• Attend trainings from the Graduate Medical Education (GME) office on how to
perform initial fellow appointments, reappointments, and graduation
paperwork.
• Complete certification documents for alumni on as-needed basis.
• Navigate the UCSF system to spearhead the credentialing process for physician
fellows so that they can work at underserved sites both in the US and abroad.
HEAL Alumni Network
• Develop, plan, and implement a strategy for HEAL fellow alumni engagement,
ongoing educational opportunities (in-person and online), and non-educational
gatherings locally and globally.
• Develop the HEAL Alumni Network to ensure continual fellow engagement as
fellows finish the 2-year fellowship.
Fellow Recruitment
• Serve as Initial point of contact for HEAL fellows, including day-to-day triage of
questions from fellows, site exchange coordination, and recruitment logistics.
• Manage the fellow recruitment process, including managing outreach efforts to
relevant stakeholders in the medical education realm as well as fine-tuning
internal selection processes.
Media and Communications
• Oversee and maintain HEAL’s social media presence including FB, LinkedIn,
Twitter, Instagram, website, etc.
• Maintain social media presence to target audiences.
• Maintain repository of HEAL photos and videos for marketing and
communication purposes, and work with editing consultants to develop and
carry out a media strategy
• Develop marketing materials that convey HEAL values and reach intended
audiences
• Direct Management of two summer interns (marketing/social media).
Programmatic and Administrative Support
• Schedule and coordinate meetings and conferences for HEAL team, fellows, as
well as partners.
• Prepare agendas, emails, meeting documents, and coordinate logistics for HEAL
other projects as time permits and as directed by supervisor.
• Assist HEAL faculty in gathering data for grant and philanthropic proposals.
• Provide logistical and implementation support for key HEAL trainings including
the Global Health Training, Mid-Fellowship Retreat, and graduation training.
Qualifications
Minimum education or equivalent experience:
• Bachelor degree in public health, policy, business, or related discipline.
• Minimum experience: 1-3 years of increasing responsibility in an organization,
preferably a not-for-profit
• Excellent interpersonal and interview skills
• Knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Access, Word, Powerpoint
• Demonstrated ability to make sound judgment and ability to summarize/report information
• Ability to work with faculty on high-level, time-sensitive, and detail-oriented projects
• Ability to multitask and prioritize well
• Excellent organizational, communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills
• Proven record of reliability and attendance
• Ability to work independently and as a team member
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively under pressure of competing priorities
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex scheduling
• Willingness to travel for HEAL-related work domestically and internationally, including to areas
that are resource-constrained
• Ability and willingness to drive for HEAL-related tasks
Preferred Qualifications:
• Knowledge of Global Health issues and/or experience working with diverse
domestic and international communities.
• Demonstrated commitment to social justice and Global Health.
• Knowledge of medical terminology, health care delivery processes, and
documentation practices
• Experience with business and information systems
• Prior experience in an academic environment
• Experience with budgets and financial planning
• Experience with event planning
To be successful as a member of the HEAL team, you will also:
• Have a passion for our mission and a strong desire to impact an up-and-coming
Global Health organization
• Be an incredibly motivated and creative thinker- develop ideas and execute on
them.
• Ability to be self directed and comfortable with an all hands on deck, no task too
menial environment
• Be humble, diligent and committed to Global Health Equity
• Have a strong work ethic, take initiative, and require minimal direction
• Work well independently as well as part of a team
• Thrive in a fast-paced, hard working and fun environment
Application information
Position is open immediately until filled. Please send a cover letter and resume via email
to Project Coordinator Search: joseph.scarpelli@ucsf.edu. Only shortlisted
candidates will be contacted. No phone calls please.
HEAL is an equal opportunity employer; people of color and individuals from diverse
backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Cape Downwinders – EH internship opportunities
Meet Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders
Learn about plans to close the Pilgrim nuclear power plant and the radiation monitoring campaign
Cape Downwinders is an all-volunteer nonprofit that investigates, educates and agitates for the immediate closure of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant. The group launched a citizens’ radiation monitoring campaign and is looking for public health students who can assist with data collection and analysis along with communication, outreach, research and education.
Diane Turco, Executive Director of Cape Downwinders, will be visiting the EH department. Join us to learn more about the community investigations on health risks related to Pilgrim, the organization’s work to safely close the power plant and internship opportunities.
Monday, November 7th
5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Talbot 4th Floor, EH Conference Room
Questions? Contact: Ruthy Rickenbacker, ruthyr@bu.edu, 617-638-5855
Data Analyst – Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation Job Opening
Questions contact Andrew Stokes. For more information and to apply click here.
| The University of Washington (UW) is proud to be one of the nation’s premier educational and research institutions. Our people are the most important asset in our pursuit of achieving excellence in education, research and community service. Our staff not only enjoys outstanding benefits and professional growth opportunities, but also an environment noted for diversity, community involvement, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is a dynamic organization at the University of Washington. Its mission is to monitor global health conditions and health systems, as well as to evaluate interventions, initiatives, and reforms. IHME aims to expand the quantitative evidence base for decisions in health, empowering policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality information to best make resource decisions. IHME’s research spans multiple disciplines and policy-relevant areas including resource tracking, cost-effectiveness, forecasting, burden of disease, geospatial analysis, and impact evaluations. It has established international scientific credibility for developing innovative multidisciplinary methods and producing cutting-edge results. IHME has an outstanding opportunity for a Data Analyst in the Director’s Office. The main purpose of this position is to provide support in ensuring the highest possible scientific excellence in IHME’s work across multiple projects, a role essential to the Institute’s international credibility and continued success. This position contributes to the critical review of research results; data quality management; and overall scientific scrutiny within the Institute. By investigating and identifying potential research challenges, the Data Analyst contributes to pinpointing solutions for the timely and efficient production of high-caliber scientific and policy-relevant results. This position must develop an understanding of different research needs and analytic functions across multiple projects to best meet scientific needs across the Institute and within the Director’s Office. The Data Analyst must be able to independently translate requests into actionable results through interactions with research databases, formulation of displays of results, and development of code to be applied to a variety of quantitative data. The position calls for dexterity working with complex data and the ability to ascertain patterns within quantitative data, which may be facilitated by the use of various tools, such as data visualizations and code (e.g., Stata, Python, R). Additionally, this position will work alongside other Data Analysts on complementary projects and will require knowledge and skill sharing and collective problem-solving. Overall, the Data Analyst, Director’s Office will be a critical member of an agile, dynamic research team. Responsibilities include: Research command
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Zambia Rising (Zambia Orphans & Vulnerable Children Systems Strengthening) Study – Paid Qualitative Data Analysis Opportunity
Paid Qualitative Data Analysis Opportunity - Department of Global Health, SPH
The Zambia Rising (Zambia Orphans & Vulnerable Children Systems Strengthening) Study is looking to hire 3 students to help with qualitative analysis in completion of project activities. Students must commit to a minimum of 12 hours per week during November and December (now through 12/21) and will be reimbursed at $15/hour. Experience with qualitative analysis and NVivo preferred. Interested students please apply ASAP by emailing Dr. Nafisa Halim for further information and to become involved in this exciting opportunity!
Job Opportunity: eHealth/mHealth Advisor
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Project Manager, ProMED – Job opportunity
The International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) is committed to the control of infectious diseases around the world. ProMED is ISID's Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, an independent internet-based infectious disease surveillance and reporting system that provides timely and accurate information to healthcare and public health workers around the world. ProMED was instrumental in alerting authorities and the general public to the anthrax-poisoned letter threat in 2002 and the outbreak of SARS in 2003, and now reaches readers in over 185 countries through its ProMED-mail e-mail service, website, Facebook, and Twitter channels.
The ProMED Project Manager will coordinate all ISID-managed aspects of the project. The Project Manager will work closely with counterparts based throughout the US as well as international collaborators.
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
- Coordinate with principal investigators to prepare project progress reports, budgets, outreach materials, and funding proposals.
- Recruit, enroll and engage members via the Internet and in face-to-face meetings at conferences and other venues.
- With ProMED senior editors, other content experts, and an instructional design consultant, produce, enhance and update instructional modules in innovative surveillance for field epidemiology trainees.
- With trainers: schedule, deliver, and evaluate face-to-face courses at regional and international meetings.
- Schedule, deliver, and evaluate content-equivalent online courses or webinars for field epidemiologists.
- Apply the capabilities of the online platform to enhance communications, especially new disease reporting, with regional ProMED staff and members.
- With ProMED editors and collaborators, evaluate and improve training materials, communication platform and tools, and qualitative and quantitative data collection.
Essential Requirements:
- Master's degree in public health or related field.
- Experience in health-related project management, including personnel and task coordination, budget and finances, and written and oral reporting.
- Software usage experience beyond standard desktop applications, such as organizational databases and internet- or intranet-based communication and data-sharing platforms.
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities and meet deadlines as well as be flexible with changing priorities.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in teams of colleagues, consultants, and partners.
- Demonstrated multi-cultural sensitivity, high level of professionalism with strong interpersonal skills and effective communication style.
- Ability to independently identify and analyze problems and recommend effective solutions.
- Eligible for employment in the U.S.A.
Desirable Attributes:
- Knowledge of and interest in global infectious diseases and epidemiology.
- Experience in on-site and/or on-line professional development or workforce training, curriculum development and teaching
- Experience in social media-based outreach campaigns.
- Start-up experience in establishing organizational infrastructure and procedures.
- Skills in additional languages
This position offers the rare opportunity for a creative and motivated professional to engage in international public health and disease surveillance at a very meaningful, practical, interpersonal and inter-organizational level. This part-time position is based at ISID in Brookline, Massachusetts and requires periodic domestic and international travel. For the successful candidate, ISID will offer a salary that is commensurate with skills and experience as well as an excellent benefits package. ISID provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.
To apply:
Please send a cover letter summarizing interests and qualifications along with a curriculum vitae to positions@isid.org, with the subject line: Program Manager, ProMED.
Web Address http:www.promedmail.org
Career Services DIME(S) Event! Where are the Jobs in Global Health? 10/20
Join Gwenn Fairall, Jeff Waller, & Justine de Marrais for PIZZA and guidance about where to find jobs in Global Health!
10/20 5:00-5:50pm
Key public health employers are coming to campus in the coming weeks!
To attend you must register on Handshake as these employers are very popular and space is limited.
RTI International – Wednesday, October 19th from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Room L-303
RTI is a nonprofit research institute with more than 4,100 employees working across a broad array of topics. This includes more than 600 people working in the social, policy, health, and economics research area. In addition to headquarters in North Carolina, there are offices in Washington DC, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco and Waltham MA. Representatives from RTI (including BUSPH alums!) will be on campus to discuss their organization and opportunities for MPH and doctoral candidates.
Public Consulting Group – Thursday November 3rd 5:00 – 5:50pm Room L-311
Public Consulting Group is a market leader in delivering outstanding financial and operational results to education, health, human services, and other government clients. Representatives from PCG (including BUSPH alums!) will be on campus to discuss their organization and opportunities for MPH candidates.
Abt Associates – Thursday November 10th from 1:00 – 1:50pm Room L-311
Abt Associates is a global leader in research and program implementation in the fields of health, social and environmental policy, climate change, and international development. Representatives from Abt (including BUSPH alums!) will be on campus to discuss their organization and opportunities for MPH and doctoral candidates.
Fenway Health + AIDS Action Committee – Tuesday November 15th 5:00 – 5:50pm Room L-109
Fenway Health is a Boston-based community health center (CHC) dedicated to enhancing the wellbeing of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and all people in our neighborhoods and beyond through access to the highest quality health care, education, research and advocacy. In addition, The Fenway Institute is an interdisciplinary center for research, training, education, and policy development, focusing on national and international health issues.
AIDS Action Committee is an AIDS Services Organization (ASO) working to stop the epidemic and related health inequities by eliminating new infections, maximizing healthier outcomes for those infected and at risk, and tackling the root causes of HIV/AIDS. Representatives from FH and AAC (including BUSPH alums!) will be on campus to discuss their organizations and opportunities for MPH and doctoral candidates.
Like tweeting? Interested in the The Report of The Lancet Commission on Essential Medicines Policies coming out in November?
Are you interested in The Report being released by The Lancet Commission on Essential Medicines Policies coming out this November? Do you like to tweet and want to help spread the word about The Lancet Commission on Essential Medicines Policies via twitter and other social media platforms?
Contact Dr. Veronika Wirtz or Juliana Restivo for more information (compensation may be possible)
International Nurse and Physician Educators (Visiting Faculty) Wanted | Apply to the Global Health Service Partnership
The Global Health Service Partnership, Seed Global Health’s flagship program with the Peace Corps and the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), partners with countries in sub-Saharan Africa to tackle critical health care provider shortages by sending U.S. physicians and nurses to serve as volunteer educators and work alongside local faculty to educate and mentor the next generation of medical and nursing professionals.
OVERVIEW
The Global Health Service Partnership is accepting applications from U.S. physicians and nurses interested in serving as visiting faculty at medical and nursing schools in Liberia, Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania and Uganda. GHSP is an opportunity to make a lasting impact in strengthening health care delivery in resource-limited settings. By helping train the next generation of local physicians and nurses, GHSP Physician and Nurse Educators make a sustainable investment in improving health outcomes in areas with the greatest need.
ELIGIBILITY
Volunteers are deployed for one-year assignments beginning in July 2017. Physician applicants must be board-eligible or board-certified in a clinical specialty. Nurse applicants must have a BSN and at least three years of clinical experience (advanced degrees and specialized board certification are preferred). All applicants must be U.S. citizens and have an active U.S. clinical license.
BENEFITS
GHSP is a Peace Corps Response program, which offers high-impact assignments for qualified professionals. Benefits for volunteers include transportation to and from country of service, monthly living stipends, housing, comprehensive medical care, a readjustment allowance, and paid vacation days. Seed Global Health offers debt repayment awards of up to $30,000 for qualified volunteers.
Contact: nurses@seedglobalhealth.org or physicians@seedglobalhealth.org
