Employment Type: Permanent Staff (EHRA NF)

　　Vacancy ID: NF0007719

　　Position Summary/Description:

　　The UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, founded in 1975, is a National Cancer Institute ( NCI )-designated comprehensive cancer center. The Center’s mission is to reduce cancer occurrence and death in North Carolina and the nation through research, treatment, training, and outreach.

　　Lineberger Members from the School of Medicine Department of Family Medicine and UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media seek a full-time project manager to work with an interdisciplinary research team. The research team is led by Drs.Sarah Kowitt and Seth M. Noar and is focused on a tobacco prevention and health communication grant funded by the NIH and FDA and administered by the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. The purpose of the grant is to study effective elements of video ads for e-cigarette and vaping prevention to inform more effective campaigns for youth tobacco prevention. The project is part of a newly funded five-year center grant on tobacco regulatory science that aims to enhance tobacco prevention and control and reduce health disparities through a series of four integrated research projects.

　　The project manager will support research activities for the grant and serve a critical role on the team through:

　　Providing day-to-day project management including monitoring progress on study aims, managing budget expenditures, coordinating and facilitating meetings, and serving as a liaison with research partners and vendors

　　Participating in project meetings and center-wide meetings and activities

　　Managing and working with research partners on the planning and implementation of large-scale surveys and a randomized controlled trial

　　Supervising and working with a graduate research assistants

　　Submitting progress reports to funders, IRB applications, and other project-related tasks

　　The project manager will also have the opportunity to contribute to the dissemination of study findings through presentations and publications, if interested.

　　Education and Experience:

　　Master’s degree in communication, public health, social or behavioral science, or a related field.AA/EEO Statement:

　　The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran.