What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Coordinator (Reproductive Health Access Project) - Cherrybell - Pediatric Medicine position at El Rio Health?
The primary goal of the El Rio Health
Project Coordinator (Reproductive Health Access Project) is to support El Rio’s Mission of providing comprehensive, quality health care that is affordable and accessible to all who may have healthcare needs, by successfully performing the primary essential functions.
Essential Job Functions :
- Administrative Activities
- Assist the Teen Health Programs Manager with organizing meeting availability; communicating with the RHAP team, El Rio staff, and community partners; troubleshooting technical issues with El Rio IT staff; and coordinating RHAP team activities.
- Coordinate meetings with the RHAP team, the Teen Health Programs Manager, El Rio staff, and community partners.
- Organize and manage a database of sexual and reproductive health literature on the RHAP Google Drive.
- Assist the RHAP team with migrating from Snapchat to Microsoft teams for group communications.
- Work with the Teen Health Programs Manager to organize the 2021 RHAP Title X budget and purchase items listed in the budget.
- Advocates for Youth Partnership
- Collaborate with partners at Advocates for Youth (Advocates) on projects to improve youth access to sexual and reproductive health services.
- Conduct a comprehensive analysis of the Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health Education Program (ARSHEP), a curriculum that trains providers to practice youth-centered care. Advocates will use the curriculum analysis to adapt and update the ARSHEP models for national dissemination.
- Participate in advocacy initiatives with Advocates for Youth, including a campaign for a more inclusive design of the new Twirla birth control patch.
- Birth Control Case Management System
- Work with Teen Health Programs Manager to develop and manage a comprehensive birth control case management system for use with teen patients.
- Developed and update surveys to be used in case management protocol.
- Provide ongoing training and supervision to peer leaders conducting case management.
- Maintain updated comprehensive Case Management Guidelines, including a checklist, HIPAA guidelines, and sample scripts, to be used by peer leaders in case management.
- Provide training to Teen Clinic medical assistants to conduct case management.
- Monitor quality of case management delivery, including communication between peer leaders and medical assistant; time to follow up with patients; continuity of case management; data collection; and adherence to HIPAA guidelines.
- Analyze and disseminate case management data to partnering organizations, including Arizona Family Health Partnership and Advocates for Youth.
- Community Outreach
- Work with Teen Health Programs Manager to coordinate and oversee community outreach activities of the RHAP team.
- Collaborate with the RHAP team to develop and disseminate social media content on Instagram and Twitter, including :
- Posts promoting RHAP services and events.
- Educational posts on topics in sexual and reproductive health (SRH).
- Posts about national awareness days and months (e.g., Cervical Cancer Awareness Month).
- Advocacy posts.
- Represent RHAP in local youth-serving coalitions, including the Juvenile Justice Community Collaborative, the Homeless Youth Coalition, and the Arizona Human Trafficking Council.
- Develop and deliver presentations to raise awareness about RHAP services at meetings of youth-serving coalitions and youth-serving organizations (YSOs).
- Discuss possibilities for partnership with local YSOs in these presentations.
- Organize meetings with community organizations to discuss possibilities for partnership.
- Worked with RHAP team to begin partnerships with four YSOs and one youth-serving coalition (January 2021 – April 2021).
- Meet regularly with seven partnering YSOs to coordinate activities, plan educational and outreach events, and develop mechanisms to increase youth access to RHAP services.
- Work with RHAP members to organize educational and outreach events, including Pizza Protection Parties, presentations about RHAP services, and tabling.
- Partner with Metro Goodwill to place two AmeriCorps volunteers with RHAP. Volunteers will work on projects to raise awareness about RHAP services, including digital content development; street outreach; and distributing promotional materials throughout El Rio clinics (May 2021).
- Collaborate with three partnering YSOs to develop a rapid referral system that connects client youth directly to RHAP services.
- Event Planning
- Work with RHAP members to plan team events, including celebrations; get-togethers; and virtual partner meetings.
- Plan logistics of team events, including coordinating availability; purchasing food and supplies; planning activities; and hosting gatherings.
- Promotion Activities
- Collaborate with RHAP team and Cream Design and Print to develop program promotional materials, including social media flyers, stickers, wallet cards, posters, brochures, lanyards, and stress balls.
- Coordinate distribution of promotional materials to seven partner youth-serving organizations (YSOs).
- Work with RHAP team to manage social media platforms, including promotion of services, special events, and educational content.
- Coordinate cross-promotion of partner events and services on RHAP social media pages.
- Work with volunteer to write and submit a monthly segment on RHAP for the El Rio newsletter.
- Research Activities
- Oversee recruitment activities for the Southwest Women’s Health Study (SWS), a project from the University of San Francisco Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology aiming to understand attitudes and feelings about pregnancy.
- Manage efforts of providers, medical assistants, and the RHAP Youth Leadership Team (YLT) to recruit teen patients to the study via telehealth and in-person Teen Clinics.
- Developed and update protocol for in-person and telehealth recruitment.
- Train peer leaders, providers, and medical assistants on IRB-approved recruitment strategies.
- Meet weekly with UCSF staff to monitor recruitment progress, troubleshoot problems, and develop additional recruitment strategies.
- Meet weekly with RHAP team to assess recruitment performance, including efforts to recruit patients at Teen Clinics.
- Conduct research and compile data for literature reviews, including advocating for the use of self-collected specimens in trichomoniasis, bacterial vaginosis, Candida vaginitis, gonorrhea, and Chlamydia testing at El Rio clinics.
- Presented findings of the literature review to El Rio leadership, in both written and oral form.
- Successfully advocated for the implementation of clinic-wide testing methods that permit the use of self-collected samples.
- Work with Teen Health Programs Manager, El Rio Lab Director, and other stakeholders to implement testing methods that permit the use of patient-collected specimens.
- Compiled a literature review on the state of sexual and reproductive health among Arizona teens.
- Collaborated with Advocates for Youth to integrate excerpts from the literature review into a successful grant proposal for funding to replicate the RHAP program at five partnering clinics.
- Work with the RHAP team and Advocates for Youth to revise and publish the report for a national audience.
- RHAP Replication Project
- Work with Teen Health Programs Manager and Advocates for Youth to coordinate a multi-year RHAP replication project at five partnering Arizona clinics.
- Meet weekly with Teen Health Programs Manager and Advocates partner to discuss project progress; develop training materials; plan activities for the first grant year (March 2021 – March 2022); outline goals; and plan meetings with project partners, including the Arizona Department of Health Services.
- Work with team to develop capacity building documents and training materials for partnering clinics, including best practices checklists for building a Youth Leadership Team and practicing youth-centered care; a report describing the RHAP model; and a case study of El Rio RHAP.
- Conduct research on a variety of topics to supplement planning activities of the replication project, including research on trauma-informed care; youth-focused workforce development programs; and youth-centered care models.
- Coordinate an evaluation of the ASU Edge training curriculum by the RHAP team to determine whether the course is suitable for use in the RHAP replication project.
- Telehealth Partnership
- Coordinate partnerships with three youth-serving organizations (YSOs) to offer onsite telehealth services at their locations.
- Work with El Rio IT team to update and install telehealth kiosks at partnering YSOs.
- Collaborate with YSO staff and Teen Health Programs Manager to coordinate telehealth availability at YSO sites; promote telehealth services to client youth; arrange staff trainings; and troubleshoot technical issues.
- UA Design Challenge
- Oversaw RHAP’s partnership with the University of Arizona Design Challenge, a 7.5-week-long program that tasks student teams with solving a problem identified by a client community organization (January 2021 – March 2021).
- Worked with the RHAP team to develop a Challenge Prompt for the enrolled UA students. The students were asked to research and develop an initiative to improve sexual and reproductive health care for young people with disabilities by addressing ableism within the healthcare setting.
- Represented RHAP at Design Challenge meetings and events.
- Mentored UA students on the design, development, and presentation of their proposed solutions.
- Met regularly with UA staff to coordinate meetings, prepare for events, and monitor student progress.
- Worked with Teen Health Programs Manager to create internship positions for the four winning Design Challenge students to continue their work to improve SRH care for youth with disabilities in El Rio clinics.
- Supervise activities of four Design Challenge interns, including research, community outreach, communications, and reporting.
- Volunteer / Internship Coordination
- Oversee the day-to-day duties of seven RHAP volunteers / interns.
- Manage onboarding and training of RHAP volunteers / interns, including high school students, university students, working professionals, and El Rio employees.
- Work with Teen Health Programs Manager to establish volunteer / intern expectations, including weekly hours, deliverables, and communication.
- Assist in the development and execution of volunteer projects, including a social media video series on the RHAP Instagram; a monthly RHAP spotlight in the El Rio newsletter; a community research project examining child-caregiver communication strategies around sexual and reproductive health; and a project aiming to create a curriculum addressing ableist bias in the healthcare system.
- Meet with volunteers regularly to monitor project progress.
- Youth Leadership Team (YLT) Activities
- Assist the Teen Health Programs Manager in overseeing the activities of the RHAP Youth Leadership Team.
- Work with Teen Health Programs Manager and YLT to develop, coordinate, execute, and promote special projects and services, including :
- A mailing service that ships menstrual products to teens by request.
- A Valentine’s Day event where the YLT distributed care packages containing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) supplies (February 2021).
- A drive-thru event where the YLT plans to distribute SRH care packages to local teens.
- Help YLT organize outreach and educational events that cover a variety of topics in sexual and reproductive health, including :
- STI / HIV prevention
- Birth control including Emergency Contraception (EC)
- Consent and healthy relationships
- Where to access confidential clinic services
- Where / how to obtain contraception
- Other related topics
- Developed and update a Teen Clinic Checklist that reviews required tasks for in-person Teen Clinics.
- Work with the Teen Health Programs Manager to oversee RHAP clinical activities, including :
- Distribution of SRH care packages at teen clinics.
- Promotion of community resources at teen clinics.
- Completion of the in-person clinic satisfaction survey at the end of a patient visit.
- Monitor YLT progress on various projects and provide technical and logistical assistance for long-term initiatives.
- Manage and facilitate regular meetings with the YLT, including General Meetings, Clinic Team meetings, and Social Media Team Meetings.
- Meet regularly with YLT members about work-related concerns, including time management, setting priorities, navigating interpersonal challenges, and coordinating team activities.
- Assist YLT members in developing and executing their workplans.
- Organize and coordinate professional development trainings for the YLT.
Other Duties and Responsibilities :
This job description has been reviewed to ensure that the minimum essential functions and basic duties have been included to successfully perform the duties, tasks, assignments, and responsibilities of this position. Additional functions, duties, tasks, or requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate to meet organizational operations.
Minimum Education and Experience :
If applicable, equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered, and must be directly related to the functions and responsibilities of the job.
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