Data Monitoring Project Manager — Project Manager

Working/Functional Title

Data Monitoring Project Manager

Position Summary

Michigan State University Extension is committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive organization, which requires all staff to contribute towards a vision for success. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to our work, regardless of title or position within the organization. This means that all staff at MSU Extension are dedicated to the following:

• We work together to ensure that programming is delivered to diverse audiences, produces equitable impacts for all participants, and demonstrates partnership and inclusion for all groups.
• We embrace that it is everyone’s job to create a culture that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
• We ensure that every team member is prepared with the skills and resources to contribute to our welcoming and inclusive culture.
• We foster inclusion by recognizing and valuing diverse perspectives, skills, experiences, and work to create equal access to programming for communities.
• We commit to continuous learning for diversity, equity, and cultural competency, in order to achieve inclusive excellence.
• We understand that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential elements to our work and are vital to the organizational culture and programmatic success of MSU Extension.
• We embrace a culture of understanding, coaching and feedback towards achieving a vision of success for the entire organization and its staff.
• Together we will achieve success and we commit to these goals in our work, continued education, and ongoing efforts.

POSITION SUMMARY

Develops, coordinates and implements projects associated with strategic plans and initiatives. Responsible for ensuring the scope and direction of each project is on schedule, meets specifications, remains within budget, and delivered on time. Manages and coordinates process and resources, monitors progress and resolves conflicts that arise during the course of the project. Develops communication and training programs associated with projects or changes in operational processes. Provides continuous status updates and final results to leadership upon completion of the project.

As part of Michigan State University Extension (MSUE) and the Health and Nutrition Institute (HNI), we are seeking a qualified data manager with program evaluation skills to conduct data analysis and reporting of community-based nutrition and physical activity interventions. This position will require an understanding of federal policy and guidelines and the ability to successfully engage and work with a variety of individuals, across content areas, utilizing effective oral and written communication skills.

In this position, you will evaluate multi-level programming related to obesity prevention, nutrition education, and promotion consistent with public health approaches, the socio­ecological model of health, health policy, systems, and environmental change approaches, and the full spectrum of prevention. Specifically, you will focus on community-based nutrition education, including Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed), the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), and other externally funded programs.

SNAP-Ed and EFNEP funding supports the implementation of nutrition and physical activity education by instructors and educators who help partners and sites support policy, system, and environment (PSE) changes that impact healthy choices across the state of Michigan. You will provide project management, evaluation oversight, staff training, and data monitoring of the SNAP-Ed and EFNEP planning and reporting in concert with Nutrition and Physical Activity (NPA) grant leaders and staff.

Your work will include a range of responsibilities, including coordinating the measurement and evaluation of direct education to monitor, track, and analyze program and outcome data from multiple reporting systems (e.g., PEARS and WebNEERS). In addition to quantitative program evaluation and research roles, you will utilize skills necessary to conduct qualitative analysis and will help build systems to make PSE evaluation efficient and streamlined across four project areas (schools, early care, community, and food access) that are measured for multilevel interventions.

In this position, you will continuously interface with programming staff, staff supervisors, communicators, funders, and other leaders who need support for data collection, reporting, and quality improvement. Additionally, you will assist with the creation of multi-year plans of work and annual reports of accomplishments used in federal and state reports. To be successful in this role, you will be required to problem solve, possess an understandi