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Description:

The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences has an outstanding opportunity for a PNASH Research Coordinator to join their team.

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. This position is supervised by Maria Blancas. Specific project activities include:

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Heat Evaluation Project (85%)

• Manage a multi-year research project on heat exposure in agricultural workers.
• Coordinate interviews, surveys, team and advisory meetings, and data management.
• Develop meeting agendas, take notes, manage files, and assist with project management.
• Coordinate human subjects, team communications, drafting reports for sponsor.
• Lead tasks such as development of final products and dissemination efforts.
• Work closely with students to ensure compliance with human subjects and project protocols.
  
  PNASH Outreach Core (10%)
  
  
• Facilitate and build partnerships between PNASH Center and community partners across Washington by coordinating communications.
• Provide agricultural health and safety training to supervisors, farm workers, safety specialists and promotoras de salud to promote best health and safety practices in the workplace.
• Develop and translate agricultural health and safety resources and disseminated materials in collaboration with community partners, through website, social media, presentations, direct phone calls and emails.
• Work with an interdisciplinary team of faculty, students, staff, and community partners to identify health and safety needs and develop strategic priorities for agricultural communities across Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
• Coordinate and create social media and radio campaigns on topics such as pesticide safety, mental health, heat illness prevention, wildfire smoke safety.
  
  Climate and Mental Health in Agriculture Pilot Project (5%)
  
  
• Support and coordinate project meetings.
• Assist in data organization and analysis.
• Co-develop final products and reports.
  
  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
  
  
• Remote/hybrid work location
• Requires some travel within Washington- access to vehicle and driver’s license required.

Skills/Eligibility:

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  MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
  
  
• Bachelor’s degree in public health or related field.
• Minimum 1 year of experience in research or project coordination.
  
  Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.
  
  ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
  
  
• Spanish-language proficiency.
• Experience with agricultural communities.
• Communication, education, and training skills.
• Ability to work as a collaborative, cooperative, and congenial member of a close-knit scholarly research and administrative team, as well as work independently (experience in virtual team environments is a plus).
• Discipline and organizational ability to work in a hybrid environment both from a home-based office and on site.
• Proficiency with MS Word and Outlook.
  
  DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  
  
• At least 2 years of experience in research or project coordination.
• Research and data management experience.
• Knowledge and prior experience with human subjects institutional review process.
• Ability to conduct one-on-one interviews and facilitation of focus groups, collect quantitative and qualitative data.
• Knowledgeable about public health communication best practices and effective communication for different populations.
• Experience with software such as RedCap, Excel, qualitative analysis software.
• Ability to respond to and accommodate dynamic priorities and schedules of faculty supervisors, including ability to set project calendars, provide reminders, and step into project management roles.
• Experience developing and facilitating trainings for adult learners.