• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: 62,400-63,000

Position Summary

The Health Indicator Project Coordinator will join the Migration and Nutrition Epidemiology team (https://manecumc.wixsite.com/mane) to work primarily on the CAMINANDO MH study [Mental Health of Latino Adolescent Who Migrate without a Parent: Understanding Risk and Identifying Resilience and Coping Strategies. Duties will include conducting interviews and mental health assessments as well as coordinate and train the student research workers who will assist in conducting health indicator data collection. The Health Indicator Project Coordinator will also oversee the organization and administration of new mental health indicators in our newly funded NIH study. The incumbent will also coordinate the regular meetings of the health assessments with the mental health advisors (including MPI R Lewis Fernandez) and student research workers assisting in health indicator data collection. The incumbent is experienced in the collection of biomarkers, including saliva, anthropometrics, dietary, and the administration of the NIH toolbox Emotional and Cognitive Batteries and the SCID-5 psychiatric assessment to adolescents. The incumbent will be responsible for data entry, and data review of health indicators in the study, including psychiatric, anthropometric, dietary, biomarker, and psychological assessments. The Health Indicator Project Coordinator must also have a flexible schedule to attend interviews in the evenings and sometimes weekends.

Responsibilities

10%- Administrative Tasks including assisting in preparation of documents for IRB review, presentations as needed

50%- Interviewing Participants

10%- Instrument implementation, training and health indicator supervision of student research workers

25%- Health Indicator Data Review, Data Entry

5% other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Psychology or Social work

• The successful candidate must have experience interacting with adolescents and migrant populations. The incumbent must be trained in administering the SCID-5 psychiatric assessment. The incumbent must be detail-oriented, with excellent organizational, interpersonal, written and oral communication skills, and the ability to maintain the highest degree of confidentiality and diplomacy at all times.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters in Psychology or Social Work
• Bilingual English/Native level Spanish
• One-year experience interviewing adolescents and collecting complex data and research protocols.