UNIV - Program Manager I - Psychiatry: Women's Reproductive Behavioral Health (WRBH) Division

Job Description Summary

The incumbent directs, plans, organizes, and performs complex instructional and administrative activities with faculty and staff of the Women’s Reproductive Behavioral Health Division within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. The division conducts clinical research that aims to improve the identification and treatment of peripartum complications including but not limited to mental health and substance use disorders and provides direct clinical services to pregnant and postpartum women, and training opportunities for clinicians and clinical researchers.

The incumbent will direct and manage a large multidisciplinary service program and research study focused on addressing gaps in the continuum of care for pregnant and postpartum women with perinatal substance use disorders (PSUDs). The program is statewide and brings together individuals with lived experience, community health workers, community partners, providers and healthcare systems. The incumbent will be responsible for defining program deliverables and managing to a timeline; comfortable directing workflow and providing feedback to team to ensure program goals are met; able to manage appropriately and escalate when necessary. This includes management of study recruitment, study retention, data collection and management, data quality control, and assuring regulatory compliance. The applicant will also assist coordination and implementation of statewide trainings to dual-certify community-based doulas and peer support specialists. The applicant will engage in outreach, project and community meetings, and may make presentations to community agencies as it relates to services offered to pregnant and postpartum women through this study program. Occasional evening and weekend hours may be needed to accommodate community’s training needs. The incumbent will assist in identifying grant opportunities that are in line with the division, assist with administrative aspects of grants submissions, award and ongoing management of study and progress reports. Recommends new programs, or revisions to existing programs; assesses programs and implements policy, procedure or rule changes. Participates in the management decision-making process for the division.

Entity

Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC - Univ)

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type​

Research Grant

Cost Center

CC001043 COM PSYCH Brain & Women's Health CC

Pay Rate Type

Salary

Pay Grade

University-07

Pay Range

56,210.00 - 80,105.00 - 104,000.000

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Work Shift

Job Description

FLSA: Hourly

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 9-5

Hybrid work schedule, Remote M-F, In-person for community outreach

Job Duties:

• Responsible for defining study deliverables and managing to a timeline. This requires that the PM is knowledgeable about clinical research studies. Also requires good problem-solving skills and how to ensure goals and timelines are meet. Meets with the Division associate director weekly to discuss deliverables for each study and service programs and solutions to address any needed changes. (35%)
• Directing workflow, providing feedback, supervision and training to team members to ensure study goals are met including screening, recruitment, enrollment, data collection and retention for studies are up to date and accurate. Ensures study recruitment is on track and problem solves on how to improve recruitment efforts if needed.  (35%)
• Oversees regulatory documentation for all IRB submissions, approved studies and study sponsor. Prepares progress reports for study sponsors. (10%)
• Serve as liaison between community and clinical programs. Facilitate patient engagement in mental health, substance use and social services through motivational interviewing technique and continued follow-up. PM will directly manage a team that includes care coordinators, peer support specialists, doulas and research coordinators. This requires knowledge of and comfortability with substance use disorder populations, community health workers, psychiatry, obstetrics, addiction medicine and community resources at the local and state level. (10%)
• Reviews study budgets with division director to insure this is on track. Assesses programs and implements policy, procedure or rule changes when needed to better serve our clinical research participants or patients. (5%)
• Identifies grant opportunities that are in line with the division. Assists division director with administrative aspects of grants submissions and award. Reviews budgets with division director and business administrator. Participates in the management decision-making process for the divisi