Administrative Manager

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 2,600 faculty physicians and researchers, nearly 2,000 students, and more than 6,200 staff, the Duke University School of Medicine along with the Duke University School of Nursing, and Duke University Health System comprise Duke Health, a world-class academic medical center. The Health System encompasses Duke University Hospital, Duke Regional Hospital, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Duke Health Integrated Practice, Duke Primary Care, Duke Home Care and Hospice, Duke Health and Wellness, and multiple affiliations.

 

 

Occupational Summary

 

The DCI Community Outreach, Engagement, and Equity (COEE) program supports and facilitates DCI’s mission to reduce the burden of cancer in our catchment area through: 1) Discovery: monitoring and evaluating the cancer burden and drivers of cancer disparities in the DCI catchment area; 2): Dissemination: building multi-directional engagement strategies to promote evidence-based strategies to reduce the burden of cancer in the catchment area; and 3) Impact: bringing to bear DCI’s scientific expertise in addressing cancer risk factors, incidence, mortality and disparities. COEE promotes and supports catchment-area relevant activities within DCI through initiatives such as community engagement training, COEE pilot grants,

community-scientist roundtable panels, and with guidance from two standing committees: the community advisory council and the COEE steering committee. COEE also supports activities that address cancer related health needs in diverse catchment area communities by leveraging partnerships with community leaders and organizations through a network of community health ambassadors, and community-facing patient navigation.

 

The Administrative Manager will be responsible for program management and leadership of key components of the overall COEE program: patient navigation, screening and outreach. This involves maintaining oversight and effective collaborations and high impact by developing and implementing numerous initiatives, with program organization and documentation, and strategic planning/implementation to support alignment of goals and programmatic growth. The Administrative Manager will ensure that ensure that COEE navigation, screening and outreach programs are robust, impactful and consistent with evidence-based strategies, well aligned with COEE inreach programs, and promote DCI as a national leader in advancing cancer health equity.  This involves leading programs designed to strengthen bi-directional stakeholder partnerships between the DCI catchment area communities and DCI and identify strategic opportunities for DCI to robustly address the needs of catchment area communities at the local, state and catchment area-level.

 

Work Performed

 

Programmatic leadership (30% effort):

 

The Administrative Manager will be responsible for leading COEE outreach programs, including education and community awareness, cancer screening, health fairs, and community-facing patient navigation. This involves high-level coordination of activities within the COEE program, managing team activities and tracking of key program deliverables and benchmarks. This requires working closely with cross-functional teams and project managers to ensure alignment of scope, deliverables, required resources, workplan and timing of projects. 

 

The Administrative Manager will be responsible for continuously evaluating the program at a high level and making suggestions for quality improvement initiatives to address inefficiencies and with meaningfully expanding the scope of navigation, screening and outreach to more effectively meet the needs of catchment area communities. They will involve nurturing collaborations with partner institutions across the catchment area, and with maintaining a seamless collaboration with clinical teams with DCI for increased impact.

 

The Administrative Manager will lead the expansion of COEE’s outreach program from 3 screening events a year to 10 per year over the next couple of years, strengthen the scope of community-facing navigation