Project Director, School of Nursing

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Posted Job Title

Project Director, School of Nursing

Job Profile Title

Manager Research Project C

Job Description Summary

Responsible for both strategic planning and day to day management of complex and broad range of projects conducted with collaborators both internal and external to university. Collaborates with center principal investigators to develop fundable ideas and create budgets, write, review and upload grant proposals. Responsible for post award management of research grants. Ensures compliance with sponsor, university, school and IRB policies.

Job Description

The award-winning Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing was established in 1989 operating as a community drawing together faculty from nursing, sociology, demography, medicine, management, economics, and other related disciplines with a focus on the patient outcomes and health workforce policy. Collectively, the Center’s work has produced a substantial body of research documenting the impact of nursing on patient outcomes in the U.S. and abroad that has impacted clinical practices, managerial decisions, and public policies to improve healthcare outcomes in 35 countries. Focused on clinical outcomes and value of investments in nursing for patients across the lifespan and across settings, one of the Center’s foci is the study of nursing’s contribution to reducing racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes.

The Center community includes 12+ PIs, three senior statisticians, two data analysts with expertise in large data sets, mixed methods expertise, over a dozen pre-and post-doctoral trainees, as well as a senior research manager (this would be the second), two project managers, an administrative coordinator, and graduate and undergraduate research assistants.  This is a new position in the Center as the breadth and volume of our portfolio has increased as are the research opportunities the Center will purs