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Case Western Reserve University Director of Operations and Partnerships in Cleveland, Ohio
Job ID 12568 Location Case Main Campus Full/Part Time Full-Time Regular/Temporary Regular Job Description POSITION OBJECTIVE The academic research center focuses on the complex interplay between environmental drivers and population health outcomes. Specializing in boundary-spanning and collaborative research, training, and practice focused on achieving health equity through food systems transformation and environmental justice. Placing special emphasis on community-engaged approaches that disrupt the role of structural racism to create and sustain environmental health equity. The center seeks to translate these findings into policies, practices, and relationships that promote community and population health equity. The Director of Operations and Partnerships must uphold the values of the center including a commitment to racial justice, collaboration, community engagement, inclusivity, and innovation. Working with minimal supervision in a highly collaborative and community-engaged applied research environment, the director of operations and partnerships will have leadership and scientific oversight of multiple research projects and other special projects assigned by the center director and several principal investigators. They will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of funded projects within the center, including the Community and Stakeholder Engaged Research Module of the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) of Northern Ohio. Providing leadership, training, mentoring, supervision, and oversight of the staff in the assigned projects within the center. They will also provide oversight of strategic growth initiatives to fulfill the center's mission. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Lead execution of center-wide strategic planning and implementation. Represent the center within broader efforts at Case Western Reserve University and in the community. Contribute to grant writing including collaborative team science proposals. Execute and manage the center's advisory council and support management of the center's faculty affiliate program. Ensure seamless functioning of the center through efficient center-wide operations and communications (website, newsletters), development of new partnerships, and translation of research findings using diverse dissemination approaches (i.e., manuscripts, white papers, reports, social media). (13%) Propose and establish goals and objectives for the efficient and timely completion of projects in collaboration with center director and other principal investigators. Meet with center director and other principal investigators on a regular basis to review and set priorities, address staff/student-related issues, and strategize future research and staff planning. Lead monthly center-wide staff meetings and devise and implement professional development opportunities to advance research capacity building in community and stakeholder engaged environmental health research. (10%) Manage current and new research projects, addressing the complexities of working within multiple different communities and academic partners and populations unfairly burdened by environmental health inequities. Meet regularly with the research staff to lead and coordinate the research, evaluation, and administrative priorities of the projects through methods designed to achieve short- and long-term goals and milestones. (15%) Create an inclusive work culture within the center integrating best practices for managing high performing teams in a complex, adaptive, and diverse research environment. Develop and execute administrative policies and procedures. Interview, hire, orient and supervise research staff; conduct annual performance reviews and development, initiate all necessary paperwork, and address employee issues and concerns. (10%) Oversee the development and continuous quality improvement of the community engagement studi