Project Specialist
CDC's Laboratory Leadership Service (LLS) team seeks a project specialist who will:
1) provide administration support for the LLS fellowship program's orientation summer course,
2) provide evaluation support for summer course, and
3) provide general support to deliver the summer course
Duties and tasks could include, but are not limited to: organizing course materials; collaborating with presenters, program staff, and fellows to share materials; collaborating with program staff to maintain curriculum documents; developing and deploying course evaluation tools; working with evaluation data to interpret and summarize findings and make recommendations; providing technical assistance for course session delivery; providing photography support for various course sessions; developing and delivering team building activities for fellows; partnering with LLS program and Curriculum lead as need to deliver the training. Interns are welcome to attend all LLS and Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) instructional sessions, as schedule and session capacity permits. This is an excellent opportunity to build project management, program delivery, and evaluation skills while also gaining technical knowledge in applied public health laboratory science, applied epidemiology, and public health practice competencies. The program is happy provide documentation and support should the intern have the opportunity to leverage this internship experience for a university course or other educational requirement credit(s).
Expectations:
- Work productively in a hybrid work environment.
- Available during core hours, both in telework and in-person settings
- Available for in-person work on various CDC campuses in the metro Atlanta area and Clifton Road Emory Campus
- Be a professional, independent worker and problem-solver
- Efficiently manage time with various projects to meet deadlines
- Effectively communicate in writing, orally, or through interpersonal engagement with LLS program and ELWB staff, partners, and fellows
- Collaborate with LLS program staff to fulfill project objectives
- Be flexible to the needs of the LLS program and willing to support a wide range of appropriate administrative, programmatic, and technical activities
- Timely completion of required CDC trainings (e.g., those trainings required for physical or computer access)
- Must be a U.S. citizen to apply
Additional information on Duties:
- Provide administrative support for LLS Summer Course delivery
- Upload course materials to the fellows’ central repository (CDC TRAIN)
- Prepare summer course pre- and post-test (verify question banks, solicit questions from presenters, build out test in the survey tool)
- Organize and store all presentations and course materials in LLS program share drive
- Solicit, store, and post presenter bios and materials to appropriate locations (LLS program share drive, CDC TRAIN, LLS fellow MUST drive)
- Assist with administrative tasks and summer course coordination as directed by the program and curriculum leads
- Update the LLS Curriculum document with relevant summer course curriculum details
- Provide summer course evaluation support
- Prepare course survey tools (Survey Monkey)
- Pilot surveys for quality control
- Develop and deploy post-course surveys
- Monitor survey completion; remind fellows as needed to achieve 100% completion
- Extract survey data and summarize findings for the curriculum lead; graphically visualize data and present key findings to the LLS program team
- Support LLS Summer Course delivery
- Deploy tests and surveys
- Coordinate with presenters for final versions of course materials (update stored versions as needed)
- Deliver (post) homework assignments to fellows
- Develop and deliver brief ice breaker and/or team building activities for fellows
- Help with photographing sessions (photos used for program promotion and recruitment)
- Attend assigned virtual or in-person summer course sessions to monitor fellow attendance and provide technical assistance, as needed