Senior Project Support Specialist
Emory University
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Decatur • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Develops innovative analytical methods, analyzes data and makes recommendations to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of projects and/or business processes.
- Leads and provides project management support for a variety of projects which may involve financial administration and the upgrade of software systems.
- Tracks and verifies procedures; coordinates the distribution, tracking, and feedback of metrics; develops and manages project time lines.
- Works closely with project team/departments to identify and resolve concerns and assumes responsibility for timely delivery of project deliverables.
- Develops and maintains databases and reports; performs various analyses such as developing forecasts, analyzing implications, and presenting data.
- Tracks departmental budgets and forecasts future budget needs; may plan and coordinate special events and maintain the departmental website.
- Conducts comprehensive assessment of cancer and other health priorities for the state of Georgia, integrating data from national, statewide, and county-level sources and community input.
- Oversees and coordinates special projects related to community and state priorities in cancer; may represent the program regionally, statewide, or nationally.
- Collects, evaluates, and maintains data for monitoring progress toward project-specific goals; develops and implements special projects for COE or WCCHER.
- Reviews literature, designs or adapts evidence-based intervention programs, designs and reports data collection, and plans and conducts program evaluation.
- Coordinates publicity for programs and events in collaboration with Marketing and Communications; may facilitate research-study related projects and help prepare reports, grants, and manuscripts.
- Collects, analyzes, and summarizes data for presentations, progress reports, External Advisory Board meetings, and the P30 Cancer Center Support Grant; supervises students or trainees working on data-related projects for COE.
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree and four years of project management, financial and/or administrative management experience or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
- Advanced Excel and Access skills strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of or skillset for working with large publicly available datasets for assessment of Georgia cancer health priorities and needs.
- Graduate degree preferred.
- Exceptional organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Effective writing, analytical, presentation, and collaboration skills.
- Able to work and collaborate easily with community-based populations and partners.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
organizational skillsproblem-solving skillscommunication skillswriting skillsanalytical skillspresentation skillscollaboration skills