Research Professional II

Program & Project Coordination

• Evaluate and manage complex project timelines, milestones, and deliverables across multiple concurrent regional initiatives.
• Establish, update, and oversee robust project tracking systems, databases, and program documentation frameworks.
• Lead the oversight and management of partner deliverables, grant reports, and operational contracts to ensure strategic alignment with program objectives and compliance requirements.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Direct the comprehensive planning, strategic coordination, and execution of professional workshops, technical trainings, steering committee meetings, and field-based partner events.
• Manage full-scale event logistics, including the development of program materials, registration structures, participant communications, and strategic follow-up deliverables.
• Negotiate and interface with external venues, agency speakers, and multi-state partners to lead highly successful collaborative events.

Additional Research Responsibilities

• Manage high-level budget tracking, analyze expenditures, and oversee financial documentation across multiple funding sources in coordination with financial administrative units.
• Establish and enforce data management protocols to ensure rigorous organization, compliance, and quality control of program data, regional models, and collaborative outputs.
• Execute other advanced operational and professional research management tasks as required to advance program initiatives.

Program Administration Management

• Manage day-to-day administrative operations and institutional workflows for the regional program, collaborating with leadership to ensure operational continuity.
• Design, organize, and maintain secure program files, digital assets, and shared resource repositories for internal and external collaborators.
• Direct cross-functional scheduling and high-level calendar coordination for complex program activities involving multiple agencies and states.
• Synthesize technical content to develop formal meeting agendas, professional summaries, and strategic action-item tracking matrices.

Strategic Communication & Coordination

• Author, edit, and format professional technical reports, program correspondence, executive summaries, and formal research briefs.
• Direct and manage communication networks across internal university staff, state and federal agency personnel, and NGO collaborators.
• Develop, evaluate, and update comprehensive onboarding frameworks, resource guides, and internal workflows for incoming staff and research collaborators.