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
NONESSENTIAL FUNCITONS
CONTACTS
Department: Continuous contact with department and with the center’s leadership, faculty, trainees, and staff.
University: Regular contact with university faculty and staff in all departments connected to the work of the center, including those affiliated with the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of Northern Ohio.
External: Frequent contact with external stakeholders including identified advisors representing grassroots community leaders, city and county government, community-based organizations, non-profits, and business. Some engagement with funders and donors, investigators and leadership of other academic environmental health research centers, and leadership of local, regional, and national taskforces related to environmental health.
Students: Continuous contact with graduate students, student workers, and interns involved with the center research
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
Direct supervisory responsibility for center staff including administrative assistant, program managers leading studies within the center, project coordinator(s) for core research, student interns, and any other staff that may be hired to support the center. Effectively able to recommend the hiring, transferring, suspension, layoff, recall, promotion, assignment, rewarding or disciplining of all center staff.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education/Experience: Master’s degree and 5 years of progressive large project management experience OR Bachelor’s degree in relevant fields (i.e., public health, social work, sociology, environmental sciences, business) and 8 years of progressive large project management experience. Strong background in community-engaged environmental health research conducted within collaborative, cross-sector teams preferred.
REQUIRED SKILLS
WORKING CONDITIONS
Must have reliable form of transportation to travel to community sites; documented mileage will be reimbursed. Some statewide and national travel required with all documented travel costs reimbursed. Must be able to work a flexible schedule, including some evenings and weekends. The position is eligible for hybrid work schedule.
This position is eligible for hybrid work arrangement up to two remote days per week at the discretion of the department. New employees may begin a hybrid schedule upon approval from the supervisor, successful completion of an orientation period and signing the remote work checklist certification form.
In employment, as in education, Case Western Reserve University is committed to Equal Opportunity and Diversity. Women, veterans, members of underrepresented minority groups, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
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Case Western Reserve University provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact the Office of Equity at 216-368-3066 to request a reasonable accommodation. Determinations as to granting reasonable accommodations for any applicant will be made on a case-by-case basis.
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