CTSI Project Planner I (CERI)

School of Medicine Established in 1930, Duke University School of Medicine is the youngest of the nation's top medical schools. Ranked sixth among medical schools in the nation, the School takes pride in being an inclusive community of outstanding learners, investigators, clinicians, and staff where interdisciplinary collaboration is embraced and great ideas accelerate translation of fundamental scientific discoveries to improve human health locally and around the globe. Composed of more than 2,500 faculty physicians and researchers, more than 1,300 students, and more than 6,000 staff, the Duke University School of Medicine along with the Duke University School of Nursing, Duke University Health System and the Private Diagnostic Clinic (PDC) comprise Duke Health. a world-class academic medical center. The Health System encompasses Duke University Hospital, Duke Regional Hospital, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Duke Primary Care, Duke Home and Hospice, Duke Health and Wellness, and multiple affiliations.

Organizational Summary:

The Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) provides infrastructure, education, and resources to facilitate translational research at Duke University focusing on integrating resources and programmatic research areas across campus. CTSI is housed in the Duke School of Medicine (SOM) and has dual reporting to the Dean of the School of Medicine and the Chancellor for Health Affairs. It is the institutional home for the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The CTSI brings together the stakeholders from all parts of the University and Health System and facilitates their work toward reaching the Chancellor’s strategic goals in a given area. The CTSI is composed of a number of programs that focus on key strategic areas related to Duke Health. Programs with strong commonalities are housed within pillars. The programs and pillars form a network that collaborates toward the overall vision of the CTSI: Accelerating the translation of scientific discoveries into health benefits for patients and communities. One of the programs is the Community Engaged Research Initiative, part of the Equity and Learning Health Communities pillar. The goal of the Community Engaged Research Initiative is to facilitate equitable, authentic, and robust community-engaged research to improve health and health equity.

Occupational Summary

Under the direction of the Program Director of the Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERI), the Project Planner will apply project planning and management skills, tools and techniques to develop resources and tools to support the coordinated activities of CERI. Work will include managing cross-functional activities to promote awareness of community engaged research, support campus-community teams in planning/conducting research and translating research into action, build researcher and community capacity for engagement, create systems change to facilitate engaged research, and disseminate lessons learned from CERI work. Work also includes collaborating with other units and teams across the Duke CTSI and Duke University and Health System, across the CTSIs nationally, and in the community.

Work Performed

• Develop and coordinate medium to large projects, programs, and research projects related to community-engaged research
• Work on rural health equity initiatives including collaboration with organizations and health care systems
• Collaborate to develop and implement community-driven AI health solutions to address pressing health challenges
• Build and maintain strong relationships with community leaders, healthcare system leaders and other key partners
• Work with the Program Director, CERI faculty leadership and team members to plan and implement activities aligned with program strategic goals
• Apply project management knowledge, technical and i