Community Program Assistant

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Posted: 17-Feb-24

Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Salary: Open

Categories:

Project/Program Management/Planning
Staff/Administrative

Internal Number: 112889-en_US

We are seeking Forty bilingual Community Program Assistants (as casual employees) will be hired for this project. He/she will have background knowledge of health promotion in the Korean community and be recommended by participating ethnic (Korean) churches in the greater Washington area. Upon training, he/she will lead and conduct the recruitment, enrollment, and retention of Korean American older adults with hearing loss and their care partners within Korean ethnic churches in the Greater Washington Metropolitan Areas while delivering the K-HEARS program to enrolled dyads in the trial. He/she will coordinate and conduct community-based hearing screening activities by ensuring effective communication via phone, mail, Zoom, and community site visits. He/she will communicate regularly with the study team to discuss recruitment, enrollment, and K-HEARS intervention delivery activities in the past week or in upcoming weeks, based on activity logs. This position will be supervised by the bilingual study team community leads (community health worker coordinator and outreach specialist). This job requires strong outreach skills, knowledge about the target community, social network, and attention to detail, and would ideally require a 6–12-month commitment.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead ethnic church-based hearing screening outreach events which include evenings and weekends.
• Establish rapport with community members.
• Provide general information regarding the project to community members.
• Respond to inquiries about the project, including face-to-face, over the phone/text, and web-based conversations.
• Provide information about the study, coordinate and conduct hearing screening events within their respective church.
• Assist the study team with data collection appointments, make outreach and data collection schedule reminder calls and emails, prepare outreach and follow-up data collection materials.
• Monitor recruitment and retention of project participants within their respective church
• Document outreach and follow-up activities and enter data as appropriate in a timely, accurate, and comprehensive manner per project protocol
• File, retrieve, and maintain participant records
• Perform all work activities per established protocols and procedures.
• Attend meetings and trainings.
• Maintain confidentiality of all participants in accordance with employers' procedures
• With appropriate training as needed by employer, deliver K-HEARS intervention program to enrolled dyads within their respective church at community-based settings
• Any other duties at the discretion of the manager or PI of the project

Additional Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Bilingual skills (English and Korean)
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with excellent time management skills.
• Motivated and self-directed with ability to work collaboratively with other study staff.
• Must have his/her own transportation to travel around the study areas and be comfortable working in the field, including interacting regularly with older adults with hearing impairment and their care partners about health-related subject matters.
• Experience working with and/or is from the target immigrant community.
• Recommendation from participating ethnic church in the target area.
• Strong organizational skills with ability to work independently and prioritize multiple tasks.
• Must be willing to be trained as a community health worker.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Familiarity with clinical studies or trials and IRB procedures a plus.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or graduation equivalent.
• Six months of related experience.

 

 

Classified Title: Community Program Assistant 
Role/Level/Range: ATO 37.5/02/OC  
Starting Salary Range: Min $15.50 - Max $25.00 HRLY ($4,000 targeted; Commensurate with experience) 
Employee group: Casual / On Call 
Schedule: Flexible Hours (Up to 3 per week, weekends included) 
Exempt Status: Non-Exempt 
Location: Remote 
Department name: Community Programs  
Personnel area: School of Nursing 

 

Please refer to the job description above to see which forms of equivalency are permitted for this position. If permitted, equivalencies will follow these guidelines:
JHU Equivalency Formula: 30 undergraduate degree credits (semester hours) or 18 graduate degree credits may substitute for one year of experience. Additional related experience may substitute for required education on the same basis. For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job.
**Applicants who do not meet the posted requirements but are completing their final academic semester/quarter will be considered eligible for employment and may be asked to provide additional information confirming their academic completion date.

The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check. Johns Hopkins is committed to hiring individuals with a justice-involved background, consistent with applicable policies and current practice. A prior criminal history does not automatically preclude candidates from employment at Johns Hopkins University. In accordance with applicable law, the university will review, on an individual basis, the date of a candidate's conviction, the nature of the conviction and how the conviction relates to an essential job-related qualification or function.

The Johns Hopkins University values diversity, equity and inclusion and advances these through our key strategic framework, the JHU Roadmap on Diversity and Inclusion .

Johns Hopkins has mandated COVID-19 and influenza vaccines, as applicable. The COVID-19 vaccine does not apply to positions located in the State of Florida. Exceptions to the COVID and flu vaccine requirements may be provided to individuals for religious beliefs or medical reasons. Requests for an exception must be submitted to the JHU vaccination registry. For additional information, applicants for SOM positions should visit https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine/ and all other JHU applicants should visit https://covidinfo.jhu.edu/health-safety/covid-vaccination-information/ .

 

The following additional provisions may apply, depending on campus. Your recruiter will advise accordingly.

The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas, laboratories, working with research subjects, or involving community contact requires documentation of immune status against Rubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella (chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received the Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may include documentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicella vaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratory testing. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases are ordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except for those employees who provide results of blood tests or immunization documentation from their own health care providers. Any vaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no cost in our Occupational Health office.

 

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