The Program Manager is responsible for but not limited to:

Core Responsibilities (85%)

• Oversee daily study management in collaboration with relevant staff and community partners
• Oversee partner engagement and participatory planning processes
• Oversee routine IRB correspondence and maintenance
• Oversee participant recruitment and retention
• Provide daily updates to the Principal Investigator on study oversight
• Support multi-setting mixed-methods data collection, management, and analyses (including qualitative interviews and focus groups; ethnographic observations in youth service settings; and longitudinal surveys)
• Support supervision of other research staff and student research interns or volunteers
• Collaborate with community partners to train and provide technical assistance to intervention facilitators (including via monthly “communities of practice”)
• Support the development and implementation of a youth facilitator model to support intervention roll-out and testing

Position Specific Responsibilities (15%)

• Oversee quarterly engagement of study Community Advisory Board (CAB)
• Support funder-required reporting (quarterly or annual progress reports)
• Support project dissemination through community and academic presentations, reports, and briefs
• Opportunities for authorship on scientific manuscripts and presentations at scientific conferences
• Attend trainings as needed
• Comply with all Project and SDSURF policies and procedures

• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent training and administration work experience involving study, analysis, and/or evaluation leading to the development or improvement of administrative policies, procedures, practices, or programs.

• Five years of progressively responsible experience in office or administrative environment.

• Master’s degree in public health or related field
• Bilingual/Biliterate (Spanish-English) proficiency

• Candidate must reside in California and live within a commutable distance from SDSU at time of hire.
• Job offer is contingent upon satisfactory clearance based on background check results (including a criminal record check).
• San Diego State University Research Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with California law and federal civil rights laws, SDSU Research Foundation provides equal opportunity in employment without unlawful discrimination or preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin or any other categories protected by federal or state law.
• Employment decisions are based on an individual’s qualifications as they relate to the job under consideration. Our commitment to equal opportunity means ensuring that every employee has equal access to resources and support.
• SDSU Research Foundation complies with Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the California Equity in Higher Education Act, California’s Proposition 209 (Art. I, Section 31 of the California Constitution), and other applicable state and federal anti-discrimination laws including grant or contract terms and conditions related to funded program activities. Further the SDSU Research Foundation maintains a Nondiscrimination Policy that prohibits discriminatory preferential treatment, segregation based on race or any other protected status, and all forms of unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in all programs, policies, and practices.
• SDSU Research Foundation makes all employment decisions including, but not limited to, applicant screening, hiring, promotion, demotion, compensation, benefits, disciplinary actions, and terminations on the basis of merit.