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Job Requisition ID:

R00047036

Job Category:

Clerical and Customer Service

Organization:

SOPH-Preventive Medicine-Operations

Location/s:

Main Campus Jackson

Job Title:

Special Project Coordinator-Population Health-Grant Funded

Job Summary:

Oversees, coordinates, manages, and executes a portfolio of special projects under the direction of the Deans of the School of Population Health. Interacts with academic and research leaders, community leaders and members, community agencies, and faculty.

Education & Experience

Bachelor’s degree in education, business, health sciences, public health, population health, public relations, marketing, communication, health administration, social sciences, or other related field.  Master’s degree preferred.  5 years of related experience is required.

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES OR REGISTRATION REQUIRED:  Driver's License

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Superior customer service/interpersonal skills with the ability to work with diverse groups that can include faculty, staff, students, and members of the community; project planning and coordination; the ability to share clear messages and make complex ideas easy to understand for all audiences; excellent active listening skills; the ability to demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in a positive manner; effective time management strategies; ability to multitask; strong leadership abilities; strategic thinking skills; the ability to be mission focused; excellent facilitation skills; ability to demonstrate the capacity to use multiple software/reporting tools to create dashboards and reports; the ability to turn information into action.

Responsibilities

• Directly manages a portfolio of special projects, including student and faculty initiatives, often high priority and/or confidential/sensitive.  Works with the SOPH Deans and other organizational leaders to identify, scope, and prioritize these projects and review progress and deliverables.
• Creates assigned presentations, website content, or other documents to ensure high-quality materials that deliver desired messages effectively with the highest degree of professionalism.  This will include presentations to potential affiliation partners, funding agencies/donors, and other key internal and external groups.
• Compiles and analyzes various types of data and information for inclusion in reports to support effective and informed decision-making, working collaboratively with data stewards and analysts from across the organization.
• Leads and coordinates efforts with student activities and recruitment of students, faculty, community advisory board members, and affiliate faculty.
• Maintains an awareness of key strategic initiatives of most significance to the School of Population Health and the Myrlie Evers-Williams Institute for the Elimination of Health Disparities and helps to pursue opportunities for alignment and collaboration
• Assists in research and implementation of health equity initiatives. Coordinates resources using UMMC and external stakeholders.
• Interacts with relevant parties to resolve problems, maintain progress, and promote active involvement of appropriate parties to improve successful outcomes of assigned projects, escalating issues as appropriate to ensure leadership awareness and intervention to remove barriers.
• The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Physical and Environmental Demands:

Requires frequent working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, occasional travelling to offsite locations, occasional activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, frequent work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, occasional bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 25 pounds, occasional crouching/stooping, occasional driving, occasional reaching, frequent sitting, frequent standing, and occasional walking. (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more)

Time Type:

Full time

FLSA Designation/Job Exempt:

Yes

Pay Class:

Salary

FTE %:

100

Work Shift:

Benefits Eligibility:

Grant Funded:

Job Posting Date:

11/20/2025

Job Closing Date (open until filled if no date specified):