Location: West Orange, NJ view map
Center for Spinal Cord Injury Research
The position’s primary focus is on coordinating programs for people with spinal cord injury, family caregivers, and hired assistants. Program elements include hands-on training, remote consultation with experts, and education and peer support efforts.
Responsibilities include
- Conduct outreach — via phone, email, social media, and remote and/or in-person presentations — to the SCI community, family caregivers, and home health professionals to raise awareness of program offerings; receive and track referrals to programs.
- Coordinate all logistical aspects of program implementation, including scheduling personnel, reserving space, acquiring equipment and supplies, facilitating travel arrangements, and processing payments.
- Conduct intake process with potential program participants, involving completion of documentation and an interview to assess needs.
- Coordinate and/or implement program and research team schedules, support services, and follow-up surveys/interviews.
- Contribute to the creation of documents and processes needed for program implementation and to the development of evaluation reports and materials to aid program publicity efforts.
- Maintain databases related to program implementation.
- Assist in preparation of data and reports.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s and/or master's degree(s) in a health-related discipline (such as social work, nursing, behavioral science, social science, public health, occupational therapy, physical therapy, rehabilitation counseling, psychology).
- Minimum of two years of experience in related field, such as social work, case management, nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and/or rehabilitation counseling.
- Strong communication (verbal and written) skills.
- Ability to build rapport and effectively collaborate with program participants, research staff, and clinical staff.
- Effective presentation skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe.
- Experience working in a medical environment and/or working with persons with disabilities.
Preferred qualifications
- Fluency in Spanish.
- Five or more years of related experience.
- Prior experience with individuals with spinal cord injury.
To apply
Forward your résumé (MS Word or PDF), salary requirements, and cover letter to [email protected]. Please indicate the position(s) for which you are applying in the subject line.
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