Community Outreach Director

Description

The Department of Family Medicine is looking to hire an experienced Community Outreach Director. Join our team and help advance innovative behavioral health research and community initiatives. This position provides administrative, operational, and community engagement support by coordinating schedules, meetings, events, travel, communications, reports, presentations, and grant materials. The successful candidate will also build and maintain partnerships with community organizations, government agencies, media, and other stakeholders while coordinating outreach events, workshops, and educational programs. Working independently and collaboratively, you will help strengthen community connections, support program goals, and ensure activities are carried out effectively and in compliance with UCLA and applicable federal and state regulations.

Annual Salary Range: $74,445.00 - $152,460.00

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree or/and 4-5 years equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 4 – 5 years of relevant experience.
• Ability to work independently and also have interpersonal skills to work with teams.
• Exceptional writing skills to produce wide range of documents and deliverables.
• Experience communicating effectively and professionally and working with a variety of internal and external partners, including UCLA administrators, outside funders, policy makers and community representatives.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate medical, policy and administrative information.
• Strong organizational skills to successfully work on and track complex programs involving short deadlines and multiple tasks, in coordination with multiple teams to achieve program/project mission and goals.
• Working knowledge of program/project development, evaluation, creating datasets, financial management and reporting, research principles including CITI training, grant writing and proposal submission, University procedures and policies, program/project related federal and state regulations.
• Ability to seek out and learn new policies, procedures, and software to advance the mission of the program/project.
• Ability to train new program/project managers and other staff within and external to the unit.

Preferred:

• Master’s degree or 2-3 years of experience