Project Coordinator

INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE

Project Coordinator managing project coordination and operational support for infectious disease diagnostics at IRC. Collaborating with global teams to support humanitarian health initiatives.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $75,000 - $90,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Maintain portfolio workplans, trackers, and dashboards for real-time visibility into milestones, risks, and decisions.
Navigate internal IRC administrative, procurement, legal, and HR systems to ensure ethical reviews and data use agreements are completed and consultants/team members onboarded.
Proactively identify and resolve operational bottlenecks; liaise with grants and finance teams on budget tracking.
Maintain knowledge management systems and ensure project teams have timely access to documentation.
Act as primary IRB PI Proxy: draft, submit, amend, and renew protocol applications across IRC and collaborating review boards.
Coordinate, draft, and track Data Use Agreements (DUAs) and Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs) between universities and the IRC, ensuring patient data privacy.
Support design and implementation of data governance frameworks for fragile, conflict-affected settings.
Coordinate identification, review, and extraction of clinical image data from public sources (open-access journals, registries, repositories).
Manage secure transfer and ingestion of medical image datasets from international and US partners.
Oversee modular image-data ingestion pipelines across modalities; build reusable data-collection instruments; conduct QA/QC.
Draft and coordinate modular, multilingual (French/English) training curricula for frontline healthcare workers on AI diagnostic tools.
Manage curriculum consultants: track deliverables, coordinate clinical review, and ensure materials are feasible for resource-constrained settings.
Maintain REDCap-based data-collection and image-labeling workflows; uphold annotation guidelines and QA/QC standards.
Coordinate operational communication between IRC country programs and collaborating AI research teams (NYU Grossman and university partners in Africa and other regions).

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Public Health, Global Affairs, Bioethics, Healthcare Administration, Data Science, or related field.
3-6 years of relevant project coordination experience in a large international NGO, humanitarian organization, or academic medical center.
Experience working in fragile or humanitarian health settings, particularly with infectious diseases.
Proven ability to navigate bureaucratic environments with patience and tenacity.
Direct experience drafting or managing IRB protocols and data-sharing/legal agreements.
Exceptional written/verbal skills; ability to write professional updates for leadership, draft academic literature, and communicate across diverse cultures.
Strong organizational skills; able to manage multiple workstreams, build workplans and dashboards, and meet deadlines.
Comfort with data systems, dataset management, and QA/QC.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, spreadsheets, and shared trackers.
Understanding of global health initiatives and clinical diagnostics in low-resource settings.
Ability to contribute to design of user-facing interfaces for frontline health workers (no coding required).

Benefits

Comp & perks

10 sick days
10 US holidays
20-25 paid time off days depending on role and tenure
medical insurance starting at $163 per month
dental starting at $6.50 per month
vision starting at $5 per month
FSA for healthcare and commuter costs
a 403b retirement savings plans with immediately vested matching
disability & life insurance
an Employee Assistance Program which is available to our staff and their families to support counseling and care in times of crisis and mental health struggles

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Hard Skills & Tools

Project CoordinationIRB Protocol DraftingData Use AgreementsData ManagementQuality Assurance/Quality ControlBudget TrackingClinical Image Data ExtractionData Collection InstrumentsTraining Curriculum DevelopmentUser-Facing Interface Design

Soft Skills

Exceptional Written SkillsExceptional Verbal SkillsStrong Organizational SkillsPatienceTenacity