The Penn Memory Center (PMC) seeks a passionate, collaborative individual to join our team as Coordinator for Multicultural Recruitment and Retention. A core mission of the PMC is diversity in research, education, and training, with a particular focus on Philadelphia’s African-American community.
(To apply for this position, visit https://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/postings/30822)
This coordinator will work with center leadership to develop and implement a plan for recruiting and retaining adults with and without cognitive impairment caused by Alzheimer’s disease, and to build and implement the center’s education and training programs. This plan includes but is not limited to activities such as educational presentations, collaborations with community leaders to organize and deliver innovative brain health programs, advancing the whealthcare and My Typical day projects (see whealthcare.org and www.mytypicalday.org), coordinating undergraduate and master’s-level students working on projects related to recruitment and retention, diversity, public health, and cognitive health and impairment.
Essential skills include the ability to translate knowledge and expertise in multicultural outreach into specific plans; communicating research results both verbally and in writing (PowerPoint and print materials) to lay audiences; and working collaboratively with community leaders, community members, research coordinators, communications specialists, university faculty and administrators, and students.
Training and/or experience in public health, health education, clinical research, or health care; and fluency in both written and spoken English are essential. Experience and knowledge about Alzheimer’s disease and related diseases is important but not required, a willingness and enthusiasm to learn about these topics is essential.
This individual is a joint staff member of the Outreach and Recruitment Core, the Clinical Core and the Research Education Core of Penn’s National Institute of Health funded ADCC; and leads the outreach work of Penn’s CDC funded Healthy Brain Research Center.
(To apply for this position, visit https://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/postings/30822)