Project Manager, ProMED – Job opportunity
The International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) is committed to the control of infectious diseases around the world. ProMED is ISID’s Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, an independent internet-based infectious disease surveillance and reporting system that provides timely and accurate information to healthcare and public health workers around the world. ProMED was instrumental in alerting authorities and the general public to the anthrax-poisoned letter threat in 2002 and the outbreak of SARS in 2003, and now reaches readers in over 185 countries through its ProMED-mail e-mail service, website, Facebook, and Twitter channels.
The ProMED Project Manager will coordinate all ISID-managed aspects of the project. The Project Manager will work closely with counterparts based throughout the US as well as international collaborators.
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
- Coordinate with principal investigators to prepare project progress reports, budgets, outreach materials, and funding proposals.
- Recruit, enroll and engage members via the Internet and in face-to-face meetings at conferences and other venues.
- With ProMED senior editors, other content experts, and an instructional design consultant, produce, enhance and update instructional modules in innovative surveillance for field epidemiology trainees.
- With trainers: schedule, deliver, and evaluate face-to-face courses at regional and international meetings.
- Schedule, deliver, and evaluate content-equivalent online courses or webinars for field epidemiologists.
- Apply the capabilities of the online platform to enhance communications, especially new disease reporting, with regional ProMED staff and members.
- With ProMED editors and collaborators, evaluate and improve training materials, communication platform and tools, and qualitative and quantitative data collection.
Essential Requirements:
- Master’s degree in public health or related field.
- Experience in health-related project management, including personnel and task coordination, budget and finances, and written and oral reporting.
- Software usage experience beyond standard desktop applications, such as organizational databases and internet- or intranet-based communication and data-sharing platforms.
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities and meet deadlines as well as be flexible with changing priorities.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in teams of colleagues, consultants, and partners.
- Demonstrated multi-cultural sensitivity, high level of professionalism with strong interpersonal skills and effective communication style.
- Ability to independently identify and analyze problems and recommend effective solutions.
- Eligible for employment in the U.S.A.
Desirable Attributes:
- Knowledge of and interest in global infectious diseases and epidemiology.
- Experience in on-site and/or on-line professional development or workforce training, curriculum development and teaching
- Experience in social media-based outreach campaigns.
- Start-up experience in establishing organizational infrastructure and procedures.
- Skills in additional languages
This position offers the rare opportunity for a creative and motivated professional to engage in international public health and disease surveillance at a very meaningful, practical, interpersonal and inter-organizational level. This part-time position is based at ISID in Brookline, Massachusetts and requires periodic domestic and international travel. For the successful candidate, ISID will offer a salary that is commensurate with skills and experience as well as an excellent benefits package. ISID provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.
To apply:
Please send a cover letter summarizing interests and qualifications along with a curriculum vitae to positions@isid.org, with the subject line: Program Manager, ProMED.
Web Address http:www.promedmail.org
