Project Coordinator

The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service.
OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nation’s leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
Education: We will prepare tomorrow’s health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.
Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

The Duke Endowment Perinatal Interagency Interdisciplinary Care Coordination (TDE PIICC) Project Coordinator works on a grant funded project developed in the setting of a maternal mortality crisis in the U.S, specifically Chatham County, NC, adversely affecting minoritized pregnant persons. This grant has proposed a pilot project to intervene and provide hands on connective care to birthing persons. The Project Coordinator responsibilities include handling the day-to-day grant management, progress reporting, scheduling meetings, regularly meeting with internal staff and external collaborators, manage grant budget and other ad hoc duties or tasks assigned by the Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-Principal Investigator.

Relevant post-Baccalaureate degree required (or foreign degree equivalent); for candidates demonstrating comparable independent research productivity, will accept a relevant Bachelor’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) and 3 or more years of relevant experience in substitution. May require terminal degree and licensure.

Demonstrated leadership and supervisory skills; experience working with many levels of staff, i.e., medical providers, nurses, support staff, senior leadership and board members; familiarity with operational, financial, quality and human resources procedures, and supervisory skills. Ability to use computerized tracking tools; Experience with data collection, analysis and grant reporting, including chart audits and clinical analysis. Excellent skills with EMR and Microsoft Office programs (Excel and Word). Experience with population management principles. Occasional travel to meetings.

Familiarity with UNC operational, financial, quality and human resources procedures, preferred.

Not Applicable.

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