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Location

Chapel Hill, NC | United States

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Job description

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.

About The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Carolina rates among the nation’s great institutions of higher education, set on an historic and beautiful campus that celebrates all four seasons. Carolina’s students, faculty and staff come here from around the world, bringing varied cultural, racial and ethnic heritages that help make UNC-Chapel Hill a thriving intellectual center. We’re repeatedly ranked the nation’s best value in higher education for students seeking to earn a college degree – the University has garnered the top spot each time since the ranking’s launch in 1998.Whether you’ve just started your career, are new to academia or are a seasoned professional with assorted campus experiences to draw on, we hope you will find a great place at Carolina.

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