The HSC Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (OfDEI) is looking for an experienced individual to fill a Sr. Program Manager position in our office. This position will provide strategic leadership and direction to the HRSA funded NM Workforce Diversity Center of Excellence (NM COE) grant. Working collaboratively with NM COE leadership and personnel, partners, community, and participants, and the OfDEI, the individual will be accountable for managing the strategic and operational plans for the programmatic, curricular, pedagogical, research, and evaluative aspects of all NM COE initiatives inclusive of student, faculty, resident, and/or community-focus. Such strategic plans should span the full duration of each initiative. Partners include public and higher education institutions, tribal governments and communities, UNM and UNM Health & Health Sciences, and community-based entities.

The NM COEservesas a catalyst for institutionalizing commitment to diversity and health equity. The purpose of NM COE is to strengthen UNM Health & Health Sciences capacity to produce a quality health professions workforce that represents the racial and ethnic diversity of the State.

Its unifying goal is to create a multi-directional, community-engaged health education and training program to build a cadre of URM students and faculty ready to address NM’s sociocultural determinants of health (SDH) and health inequalities. The NM COE will integrate, expand existing, and develop new programming to measurably improve the recruitment, mentorship, training, and retention of URM undergraduate and professional student, academic faculty, and community faculty scholars in NM with a commitment to health equity.The Sr. Program Manager position will manage the planning, implementation, budgeting, reporting, and evaluation of each goal, objective, and milestone activity of the NM COE project. While engaging and monitoring progress on strategic plans, they will also ensure compliance with federal, state, and institutional regulations, while completing all required grant reports.

This role requires continual communication with NM COE faculty, staff, and community members to weave together programs, resources, and community and strategic partners to improve information resources, clinical education, curricula, and cultural competence as they relate to minority health and SDH. They will work with OfDEI faculty and staff to ensure effectiveness and efficiency with office procedures and compliance with budget. In partnership with the entire NM COE and OfDEI teams, they will help to foster an inclusive environment that fully empowers a diverse body of students, faculty, residents and staff to be fully prepared to serve a culturally diverse state and society.

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Duties and Responsibilities:

• Direct, manage, and oversee implementation of a multi-directional, community-engaged health education and training program.
• Provide oversight for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of each project goal and related project teams.
• Responsible for maintaining fidelity across all project aspects and will develop and oversee all programmatic standard operations procedures.
• Develop systems and processes to improve programmatic efficiency.
• Ensure all project teams meet short- and long-term goals and objectives.
• Oversight and supervision of personnel for the NM COE grant, including training, promotion, problem resolution and performance evaluation. Will directly oversee, at least one program specialist and indirectly an Institutional Researcher or Data Manager.
• Alongside the grant & office leadership, will develop and manage annual budgets for the NM COE, analyze budgets, and develop reports.
• Work to create and foster collaborations and partnerships as a central liaison with internal and external stakeholders on matters related to program activities and ensuring program fidelity.
• Ensures the development, writing, and presentation of grant outcomes.
• Maintains complex databases to allow for tracking of NM COE program participants in order to assess short- and long-term programmatic outcomes and impact.
• Determine and maintain a consistent schedule for data collection, maintenance, and reporting, including creating program report templates.
• Manage IRB requirements, with PI/Co-PI assistance
• Manage and update NM COE Webpage
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

See the Position Description for additional information.

High school diploma or GED; at least 7 years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified; two of which are management level experience.

Completed degree(s) from an accredited institution that are above the minimum education requirement may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Extensive project management experience (3-5 years)
• Experience managing complex budgets
• Knowledge of management principles, practices, and experience supervising multiple direct-reports
• Ability to develop and maintain recordkeeping systems and procedures
• Ability to gather data, compile information, and prepare reports
• Ability to design and implement systems necessary to collect, maintain, and analyze data.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
• Knowledge of contracts and grants preparation and management
• Familiarity with MyReports, Chrome River, UNM Jobs, Lobomart, RedCap or similar accounting, HR, purchasing or database management platforms, and MS Office
• Familiarity with Institutional Review Boards
• Fluent in language(s) most common in New Mexico
• Experience working with New Mexico’s diverse communities

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