ILPQC Community Engagement Research Coordinator

Hourly Pay Range:

$24.86 - $37.29 - The hourly pay rate offered is determined by a candidate's expertise and years of experience, among other factors.

Position Highlights:

• Position: ILPQC Community Engagement Research Coordinator
• Location: Evanston Hospital
• Full Time
• Hours: Monday-Friday, 8am-4:30pm
• Travel: A few times a month travel to hospital, community, and stakeholder locations throughout Illinois

Position Summary:

The Community Engagement Research Coordinator will help to increase patient and community participation in statewide perinatal quality improvement efforts to help reduce disparities in maternal and neonatal outcomes. They will work with diverse patients, communities, and outpatient community-based perinatal health care professionals to create, implement, and evaluate perinatal quality improvement initiatives that improve birth equity in healthcare. The Community Engagement Research Coordinator is responsible for advancing connections to patient / family partners, community partners and community-based perinatal health care providers’ engagement in health equity focused quality improvement initiatives for diverse and underrepresented community groups and patient populations and act as an advocate and liaison between these groups and the Illinois Perinatal Quality Collaborative.

What you will do:

ILPQC is a nationally recognized Perinatal Quality Collaborative (PQC) with over 90 participating hospitals. ILPQC facilitates state-wide quality improvement initiatives to equitably improve maternal and neonatal outcomes and reduce disparities in birthing hospitals across the state by providing: opportunities for collaborative learning, rapid response data, and hospital team QI support. Current projects include Birth Equity, Promoting Vaginal Birth, Newborn Equity and Safe Sleep, and the ILPQC Birth Quality Designation program.   

The position will work closely with the ILPQC Executive Director / Obstetric Lead, Project Director / Quality Lead, Neonatal Leads, ILPQC staff and interns, clinical leads, advisory workgroups, patients and community members, and hospital quality improvement teams (providers, nurses, staff) on the development, implementation, and sustainability of initiatives.

Responsibilities of this position fall into the following main areas:

• Develop systems, communications, and tracking tools to facilitate ILPQC Community Engagement activities
• Attend ILPQC team meetings and share ideas and provide updates on ILPQC Community Engagement Activities
• Develop relationships with patient / family partners, community partners, and outpatient community-based perinatal healthcare providers
• Serve as the primary contact with patient/ family and community partners and outpatient community-based perinatal health care providers to develop partnerships and coordinate ongoing collaboration and work
• Support patient/family and community partnerships with ILPQC and support hospital teams developing patient / family partners and community partners for ongoing input on quality improvement work
• Support partnerships with outpatient community-based perinatal health care providers with ILPQC and hospital teams
• Coordination of regular webinars, including obstetric and neonatal community advisory board meetings, statewide webinars to engage community and outpatient perinatal health care providers in statewide quality improvement initiatives
• Assist in event planning for twice annual in-person collaborative learning opportunities including event planning and related communications including support of website/social media communication
• Collaborate with patients, communities, and outpatient perinatal healthcare providers to ensure ILPQC data collection, analysis, and reporting is accessible and meaningful to them
• Provide quality improvement support including individual calls, small group meetings, regional meetings, and other formats as identified
• Participate in financial coordination including monitoring budgets, submitting expenses, processing invoices and related tasks
• Assist with grant writing, monitoring grant timelines, and producing grant reports to funding organizations as well as abstracts and papers for publication.

What you will need:

• Education/Experience: public health, nursing, social work, social or health science or related; OR appropriate combination of education and experience and 3 years' research study or other relevant experience required; OR Successful completion of a full course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a master's or higher degree in a major such as public health, nursing, social work, social or health science or related; OR appropriate combination of edu