Director, Program - Winship Cancer Institute

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JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Directs the strategic planning, development and implementation of a large and complex program or of several smaller programs.
• Plans, administers and monitors program budgets.
• Develops short and long term goals and objectives.
• Oversees related special projects.
• May represent the program in various national and international settings.
• May manage the solicitation of funding from foundation, corporate, individual and governmental donors.
• Collaborates with and seeks the support of representatives from other organizations.
• Establishes and administers policies and procedures.
• Supervises staff. Performs related responsibilities as required.

 

SPECIFIC JOB DUTIES:

• Builds and maintains partnerships with community organizations, state departments of public health, health care systems, minority-serving institutions, and other agencies throughout Georgia, regionally, and nationally.
• Coordinates the Community Advisory Board (CAB) that provides regular input to the Winship Cancer Institute.
• Recruits and trains new Community Advisory Board and internal Scientific Advisory Committee for Winship Center for Cancer Health Equity Research.
• Collaborates with research programs and their COE liaisons, patient advisory council, bi-directional communication community research board, and state cancer control consortia.
• Takes leadership role in planning and executing annual statewide cancer summit and other institutional and state-level meetings.
• Develops pilot grant requests for applications related to cancer health equity and community-based disparities.
• Serves as a consultant and provides technical expertise in rationale, research and methods of collection and analysis of data sets for other investigators involving a variety of research projects funded by NIH and other agencies.
• Provides expertise in data related to statewide cancer disparities and works with investigators to develop community input, bi-directional communication, or formal community boards to advise other research studies.
• Conducts extensive literature searches and analyzes publicly available data, summarizes and disseminates findings and application to research and catchment area (state of Georgia) priorities.
• Monitors and regularly evaluates progress in reaching goals identified through strategic planning process.
• Reviews and assigns requests for services received by COE from researchers, clinicians, students, and community members.
• Helps generate programmatic and research project budgets. Reviews budgetary expenses and works closely with Finance to maintain budgetary compliance.
• Facilitates processing of programmatic expenses.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in a discipline related to program work and seven years of related experience which includes two years at a management level, OR an equivalent combination of education, experience, and training.

 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Prior experience working with community partners or in a community setting.
• Prior experience with NCI cancer centers. Is familiar with guidelines from National Cancer Institute (NCI) for NCI-designated cancer centers and NCI’s evaluation criteria for COE components.

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