Sr Project Coordinator - CHEW - Full time - Detroit
GENERAL SUMMARY:
Under guidance of a director or project manager, executes specific stages of project plans specific to community health, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and/or wellness projects. The ideal candidate will have experience with project and evaluation design, monitoring short and long-term project goals, maintaining a project workplan, facilitating project meetings, monitoring and controlling project activities, ensuring all team members have the resources and materials they need, interacting with internal and external customers at all levels, ensuring deadlines and deliverables are met, regularly maintaining and filing paperwork, and gathering and reporting metrics.
S/he must have strong interpersonal communication, time management, problem solving, technical and organizational skills to keep projects on track. Strong technical writing skills to prepare project reports, funding proposals, scientific presentations, abstracts, and manuscripts is required. Prior experience assisting with research (i.e., data entry, data collection, data management, basic statistical analysis) a plus.
Ability to work on multiple projects and assist with budgeting details is preferred. Some staff supervision may be required.
PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Responsibilities include assisting with designing new or modifying existing demonstration projects, quality improvement initiatives, worksite wellness programs, employee wellness programs, patient education programs, employee education programs (i.e., cultural competency and diversity trainings), and other related project activities. Duties may also include coordinating recruitment and retention efforts, development of data collection tools, managing databases and other evaluation activities, and facilitating team meetings.
· Ability in monitoring project activities, monitoring time and effort reporting, interacting with internal and external customers at all levels, along with reporting and responding to requests from grant funders and senior leadership will be key.
· Additional responsibilities may include conducting site visits; assisting in the development of program goals and objectives, program budgets, grant proposals, scientific abstracts, manuscripts, presentations, and curriculum design.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
• Bachelor's Degree required, Master’s preferred, in Public Health, Health Education, Health Administration, Public Administration or a closely related field as well as three (3) years of experience in a health care setting.
• Three to five (3-5) years of experience in community health, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and/or wellness preferred. Project Management Professional certification preferred.
CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSURES REQUIRED:
Must meet or exceed core customer service responsibilities, standards and behaviors as outlined in the Henry Ford Health Customer Service Policy
Must practice the customer skills as provided through on-going training and in-services.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Normal health care environment with possible exposure to communicable disease. Involves periodic travel to community agencies and collaboration with other system worksites. Some weekends and evenings required.
Additional Details
This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described above.
Overview
Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services – from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford’s care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation’s most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus. Learn more at henryford.com/careers.
Benefits
The health and overall well-being of our team members is our priority. That’s why we offer support in the various components of our team’s well-being: physical, emotional, social, financial and spiritual. Our Total Rewards program includes competitive health plan options, with three consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), a PPO plan and an HMO plan. Our team members enjoy a number of additional benefits, ranging from dental and eye care coverage to tuition assistance, family forming benefits, discounts to dozens of businesses and more. Employees classified as contingent status are not eligible for benefits.
Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer Henry Ford Health is
committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of all individuals without regard to
race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, size, height,
weight, marital status, family status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and genetic information,
or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.