Population/Public Health Manager

Responsibilities

• Manage the qualitative research area's full portfolio of activities, ensuring quality standards, regulatory compliance, fiscal responsibility, and timely deliverables.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for internal and external investigators, research teams, staff, and collaborators.
• Lead project planning activities such as cost estimation, scheduling, participant recruitment tools, and progress briefings with investigators.
• Develop and implement tools and instruments for data collection conducted via interviews, focus groups, surveys, direct observation, and other qualitative methods.
• Manage data workflows, including transcription, translation, de-identification, data storage, and preparation for coding and analysis.
• Design and implement coding frameworks, conduct a range of qualitative analyses, and create data reports and related products to support scientific abstracts, manuscripts, and presentations.
• Coordinate administrative, financial, and regulatory processes across multiple departments, including budgeting, billing, and project documentation.
• Oversee hiring, training, supervision, and professional development of staff.
• Represent the research core in institutional meetings, conferences, symposia, and collaborative initiatives; support grant and proposal development.
• Create educational, operational, and patient-facing materials; contribute to process improvement and methodological training across the institution.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.
• MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
• Bachelor's degree
• 1 year of relevant experience
• TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
• Quality Management (Intermediate): Developing a systematic process of checking to see whether a process or service is meeting specific requirements.
• Networking (Intermediate): Build relationships through industry contacts, professional organizations and individuals.
• Peer Leadership (Intermediate): The ability to show leadership and influence people of equal rank in an effort to accomplish team goals.
• Financial Processes (Intermediate): Ability to monitor costs, expenses and revenue as well as the ability to manage those costs and expenses in relation to budgeted amounts.
• Process Improvement (Intermediate): Identifies, analyzes and improves upon existing business processes for optimization and to meet standards of quality.
• Program Planning (Intermediate): Demonstrates ability to realistically anticipate resource needs, identify and break work down into discrete and measurable tasks, set priorities, define dependencies, schedule activities, prepare acceptance criteria and organize wo

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Additional Information

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center : Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research. Organization: Institute for Global Health Job Summary: JOB SUMMARY The CHSR Core Area Manager for Qualitative Research will be responsible for working with the Qualitative Research Area Director and CHSR Core Director to oversee and carry out the key functions of this highly active research core area which supports investigators in the planning and conduct of rigorous qualitative or mixed methods evaluations. Activities of the Qualitative Research Area include supporting qualitative studies from design to implementation and analysis (qualitative methods, study design, protocol development & review, training, data collection, transcription services, coding & analysis, grant & manuscript preparation, etc.), and includes both consultative services and project facilitation services like planning and carrying out structured and semi-structured interviews, focus groups, direct observation, survey data collection, and conducting analyses. Functions of the Area Manager are focused on managing these activities for both incoming and active projects, including serving as the primary liaison for investigators and collaborators, overseeing all phases of individual project operations, regulatory processes, budgeting, and data workflows, as well as overall core area management activities, like staff supervision and training, resource management and process improvement, financial reporting, and core area representation in internal and external meetings, conferences, and collaborations. .

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