Research Program Leader

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  for prose. We need to decide which content goes into which section. About the role: prose

  . Responsibilities: list

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    • (minimum requirements). Qualifications: list
      • (preferred qualifications). Skills: maybe prose

        describing skill sets. Benefits: list

        • (medical/dental, retirement, family-friendly cultural programs). Pay: maybe

          with pay range. We must not repeat job title. No other headings. Let's craft. Check for duplicated lines: The posting repeats some paragraphs about Duke's cancer prevention community etc. We should include only once? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. But we can deduplicate identical lines? It says remove duplicated lines. So we should avoid repeating same sentences. The repeated paragraph about Duke's cancer prevention community appears twice. We'll include it once maybe in About the role or elsewhere? Actually that paragraph is more about the program and opportunity; could be part of About the role or maybe a separate section like "About the program". But we only have allowed headings; we could incorporate into About the role as additional prose. Ensure we don't duplicate. Let's extract unique substantive paragraphs: - Intro about Duke School of Medicine (history, ranking, composition). That's background about the institution, maybe part of About the role? Could be considered About the role? It's about the school, not the role. Might be considered background but still substantive. Could include in About the role as context. - Description of the role (the earlier paragraph). That's substantive. - "Be You." etc motivational tagline - remove. - "In This Role, You Will" list - responsibilities. - "The ideal candidate combines two skill sets..." - skills. - "Minimum Requirements" etc. - "Preferred Qualifications" etc. - "Other Requirements" (the ideal candidate combines two skill sets) - we already used that as skills. - "Duke’s cancer prevention community brings together..." repeated twice - we can include once maybe as part of About the role or as a separate paragraph about the program. - "Anticipated Pay Range:" etc. - "Your total compensation goes beyond the dollars on your paycheck. Duke provides comprehensive and competitive medical and dental care programs, generous retirement benefits, and a wide array of family-friendly and cultural programs to eligible team members." - benefits. - Equal Opportunity Employer etc - remove. - Essential Physical Job Functions - maybe remove as boilerplate. Thus we will craft sections:

          About the role

          Duke University School of Medicine, established in 1930, is the youngest of the nation's top medical schools, ranked sixth nationally. It comprises over 2,600 faculty physicians and researchers, nearly 2,000 students, and more than 6,200 staff, forming part of Duke Health alongside the School of Nursing and the Health System. The Research Program Lead will coordinate and advance a portfolio of research and implementation activities focused on equitable cancer prevention, screening, early detection, and timely follow-up of abnormal screening results. Working closely with Dr. Michael Pignone, Dr. Caroline Sloan, and collaborators across Duke University, Duke Health, and external partner organizations, the Program Lead will manage research and implementation projects involving colorectal, lung, cervical, and other screen-detectable cancers. Major areas of work include population-based screening outreach, patient navigation, completion of diagnostic evaluation following abnormal screening results, health-system implementation, health equity, and translation of successful interventions into routine care. A distinctive component of this position will be responsibility for patient navigation following abnormal cancer screening tests for colorectal and cervical cancer. The Program Lead will devote approximately 25% effort to providing navigation directly to patients, developing and refining navigation protocols, and training and supporting other personnel in effective navigation practices. Prior experience providing patient navigation or closely related care-navigation services is required. The position will combine hands-on project execution with research coordination, scholarly production, and development of scalable approaches to equitable cancer screening and early detection. Duke’s cancer prevention community brings together research, clinical care, population health, implementation science, and community partnership. You will join a collaborative program working to ensure that effective cancer-screening and follow-up strategies reach the patients and communities that need them. This position offers the opportunity to shape a growing research and implementation portfolio, contribute to meaningful scholarship, and help build a scalable patient-navigation model designed to improve timely diagnostic resolution and reduce disparities across the cancer-screening continuum.

          Responsibilities

          • Patient navigation and program development — Provide direct navigation following abnormal cancer-screening results, help patients address barriers to completing diagnostic follow-up, and develop standardized navigation workflows, protocols, tracking systems, and escalation procedures. Train and support other navigators and use direct patient experience to develop a scalable navigation model.
          • Cancer research and project management — Manage cancer prevention, screening, early-detection, and implementation projects. Coordinate project plans, timelines, budgets, deliverables, research requirements, data quality, investigators, clinical partners, research staff, trainees, and external collaborators.
          • Scholarship and research dissemination — Advance manuscripts, abstracts, presentations, literature reviews, and other scholarly products. Coordinate analyses, writing, coauthor input, revisions, and submissions, and identify opportunities to translate implementation activities into meaningful research.
          • Grant development, program growth, and policy training — Support grant applications, identify funding opportunities, coordinate collaborators and submission requirements, and connect current findings to future studies and opportunities for expansion. Support cancer policy and advocacy training in partnership with program leadership.
          • Partnerships, mentorship, and broader dissemination — Build collaborations across Duke, Duke Health, community organizations, and external partners. Support trainees and junior investigators and help disseminate successful approaches through presentations, training materials, implementation resources, and professional organizations.

          Requirements

          • Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
          • Minimum of four years of related experience.
          • An equivalent combination of relevant education and/or experience may be considered.

          Qualifications

          • Master's degree in public health, health services research, health administration, social or behavioral