Research Coordinator - Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety & Health Center (UW DEOHS) (Job)
Description:
The Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health (PNASH) Center, housed within the UW School of Public Health’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, serves Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington by reducing occupational disease and injury among agricultural operators, workers and their families in the farming, forestry, and fishing industries. Our emphasis is on injury and illness research and prevention for vulnerable populations such as contract workers and children.
The Research Coordinator position supports outreach, research, and other activities with farmworkers and farms across several PNASH projects. Many activities require bilingual and bicultural approach and skills, especially with farmworkers.
The Research Coordinator will perform general tasks across projects including: study development (work with the PI, project manager, and faculty on planning, designing, and implementing research project; help with the preparation of summaries for research team synthesizing the approved aims, timelines, and products in keeping with the details of the design and implementation phases; contribution to competing and non-competing grant renewals; and serve on the PNASH Center research team contributing to the overall development of strategic planning, project development and design, information delivery, evaluation, and development of narratives and summaries incorporated in the Center’s grant submissions, sponsor reporting, and collaborations with the other national agricultural safety and health centers.