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Program Coordinator - Full time- Goldberg Center- DC

Children's National Medical Center
United States, D.C., Washington
Mar 12, 2025
Description

Brief Program Description - About the Family Lifestyle Program Children's National's Family Lifestyle Produce Prescription intervention (FLiPRx) aims to address food insecurity and diet-related chronic disease among families with children living in the Washington, D.C.-region. The FLiPRx program reduces health disparities by reducing barriers to eating healthy, high-quality food, and providing education around nutrition, culinary skills, and stress management. We are seeking a program coordinator to help with the delivery and evaluation of this produce prescription program.


Program Coordinator Desired Qualifications and Duties


The Family Lifestyle Program is looking for a full-time, benefits eligible, fully remote program coordinator to manage our growing team of research assistants, oversee daily program operations related to participant experience and communication with external partners. The Program Coordinator will provide administrative and program support to plan, implement and coordinate programs, events and educational activities, and to administer policies and procedures as well as office management.

Qualifications

Prior team members who have excelled have been genuinely interested in the field of nutrition, health equity, community-based programs, and chronic disease prevention, as well as espoused the below qualities:


  • highly skilled in compassionate, direct communication with patients and families
  • commitment to a positive customer service experience
  • commitment to active problem-solving with timely follow-up and closed loop team communication
  • quantitative and/or qualitative research skills with a desire to further develop and contribute to scholarly projects
  • Strong project management skills

Duties

The Program Coordinator will be responsible for:


  • Supervising and carrying out the day-to-day operations of the program


  • Communicating with the PIs, research assistants, program participants, and external partners to ensure operations run smoothly


  • Contributing to regular reporting to internal and external stakeholders


  • Daily tracking referral, recruitment, and enrollment of study participants and data collection


  • Monitoring produce and nutrition education intervention delivery and troubleshooting operational and customer service issues as they arise

Qualifications Minimum Education
High School Diploma or GED (Required) Or

Minimum Work Experience
3 years Experience in program administration involving academic, medical or research activities to acquire skills necessary to plan, coordinate and implement a variety of program activities and events (Required)

Required Skills/Knowledge
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experienced in department budget and personnel administration and communication.
Computer Skills - Excel, Microsoft Word, Access, & PowerPoint

Functional Accountabilities
Safety
  • Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance
  • Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation
  • Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation
  • Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication
  • Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers
  • Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance
Provide Operational Oversight
  • Coordinate administrative tasks consistent with workload requirements and available resources.
  • Participate in specified divisional operations and systems.
  • Recommend and participate in development of new processes and systems to meet departmental needs.
  • Train and mentor new investigators and research staff on processes; assist with determining work assignments, schedules and priorities; provide work guidance and oversee the activities of one or more processes.
  • Maintain and process employee time cards and attendance records.
Manage Budget
  • Participate in the development, monitoring, and reconciliation of operating and capital budgets; (e.g., budget variance and performance reports; budgetary
  • Ensure availability of data for management decision making.
Committees and Meetings
  • Coordinate the Activities of the Regulatory, faculty and staff meetings; prepare meeting documentation including teleconference; assign and distribute review material; draft minutes;
  • Coordinate correspondence and maintain extensive filing system.
Administrative Support
  • Serve as a liaison with internal departments, investigators, and external collaborators and investigators; prepare and proof complex administrative and contractual documents, correspondence, memoranda, letters, presentations and reports; provide support with project management activities.
  • Assist with updates to the website, maintain mailing lists, file logs.
  • Coordinate and schedule office appointments, meetings and conferences with other CNMC departments, investigators.
  • Assist with other office duties as needed.

Organizational Accountabilities
Organizational Accountabilities (Staff)
Organizational Commitment/Identification
  • Anticipate and responds to customer needs; follows up until needs are met

Teamwork/Communication
  • Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior
  • Partner with all team members to achieve goals
  • Receptive to others' ideas and opinions

Performance Improvement/Problem-solving
  • Contribute to a positive work environment
  • Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change
  • Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes
  • Make appropriate decisions, using sound judgment

Cost Management/Financial Responsibility
  • Use resources efficiently
  • Search for less costly ways of doing things

Safety
  • Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance
  • Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation
  • Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation
  • Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication
  • Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers
  • Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance
Primary Location : District of Columbia-Washington
Work Locations :
CN Hospital (Main Campus)
111 Michigan Avenue NW
Washington 20010
Job : Non-Clinical Professional
Organization : Goldberg Cntr Cmnty Ped Hlth
Position Status : R (Regular) - FT - Full-Time
Shift : Day
Work Schedule : 9am - 5pm, Mon - Fri
Job Posting : Mar 12, 2025, 11:29:41 AM
Full-Time Salary Range : 57200 - 95347.2
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