Program Coordinator Jobs

What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.
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Once you join us you won't want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.

• The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
• 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
• Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!
• Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
• Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)

We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as...

• Free mental health counseling services
• Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
• Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
• Free financial and legal counseling
• Resources for child and elder care
• Plus many more!

Position Summary
Provides overall design, execution, management, and effectiveness of public education and/or outreach programs in order to ensure the achievement of its assigned goals and objectives.
Position Key Accountabilities

• Coordinates, develops, implements, and evaluates the delivery system for education and outreach programs in targeted communities.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Maintains current scientific, technical and regulatory environment information concerning relevant developments related to program area.
• Researches and analyzes data pertaining to education, and attends functions to keep abreast of relevant scientific and technical developments related to programs.
• Ensures that plans and protocols are followed to ensure compliance with all federal, state laws and UTHSC-H policies, rules and regulations.
• Interact extensively with the public and/or external organizations to facilitate programs. Participates in national and regional task forces and work groups to provide capacity building assistance and information to partners; applies health education theories, models, and concepts to partner activities.
• Uses program databases to collect program evaluation data; writes program reports and case studies to document outreach efforts; submits abstracts to professional meetings.
• Communicates with community and a variety of health care professionals to share objectives, outcomes by writing articles for newsletters, web pages, and other publications. Acts as a liaison with appropriate institutional agents; prepares/makes oral presentations at professional meetings.
• Participates in all phases of projects and in research related activities, including assessing regional needs for program education, developing regional outreach plans based on needs assessment findings.

Certification/Skills
Knowledge of MS Office, SPSS or statistics software applications.
Bilingual in Spanish may be preferred.
Minimum Education
Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience in lieu of education.
Minimum Experience
Three years of related experience.
May substitute required experience with equivalent years of education beyond the minimum education requirement.
Physical Requirements
Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.
Security Sensitive
This job class may contain positions that are security sensitive and thereby subject to the provisions of Texas Education Code

• 51.215

Residency Requirement
Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.