Employment

Executive Program Manager – Racial Justice Institute

Job Overview

The Executive Program Manager manages complex projects, coordinates stakeholder management, implements communications plans for the Racial Justice Institute, and manages the RJI budget. They implement the combined core initiatives of the Center for Men’s Health Equity, the Woodshed: A Center for Art Thought & Culture, the Georgetown Center on Race, Law, and Justice and future Centers that comprise the Racial Justice Institute’s multi-disciplinary approach to its mission.

Projects include developing and managing events and overseeing grant submission and the subsequent management of funded projects. Work includes developing timelines, assigning tasks, development and management of RJI budgets, budget, overseeing grants and contracts, and implementing operating policies and procedures. Stakeholder management will include facilitating the work of internal and external advisors and partners and communicating with faculty, institute fellows and other external partners.

Communication responsibilities include maintaining an RJI website, implementing a social media plan for individual projects, newsletter publication and dissemination and grants as well as the overarching Institute. The Executive Program Manager independently takes rough documents to craft finished projects with little direction, using their ability to translate content into multiple forms and formats, while ensuring coherence and continuity throughout all documents and media, is important given the breadth of communications required.

They apply independent judgment to explain facts, policies, and practices related to additional management responsibilities, include planning, organizing, and controlling resources and procedures. They also coordinate the Founding Directors and Executive Director’s schedules for RJI meetings and manage meeting agendas.

The Executive Program Manager role is a wonderful opportunity for someone with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong organizational and administrative skills, and events planning and coordination experience. While the duties are mainly administrative, the position provides great exposure to the substantive work and professional expanding network of racial justice scholars, activists, and artists institutes across the country and the world.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Men’s Health Equity

Position Description

The postdoctoral fellow will have a primary research focus on men’s health equity: research at the nexus of men’s health and health equity in an effort to achieve optimal well-being and social justice for men.

The aim of this fellowship is to train a scholar to further develop and strengthen research competencies in men’s health, men’s health equity, health equity/ health justice, and population health and well-being including: the values and mission of health equity and health justice; the importance of focusing on well-being in addition to health; engaging literature and expertise from across the globe; the implications of intersectionality for men’s health equity; multilevel intervention strategies; the value of historical context and humanities expertise; definitions of expertise and who we have as partners in research; the value of disseminating research through academic and non-academic outlets; policy education and advocacy; and the ability to work effectively in, with, and across communities.

Position Summary

The Postdoctoral Fellow in Men’s Health Equity will conduct and disseminate research that aligns with the goals and values of the Center for Men’s Health Equity (https://cmhe.georgetown.edu/). The fellow will focus on publishing their dissertation findings, collaborating on manuscripts and projects of the Director of the Center, and developing new research projects.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health Justice Research

Position Description

The postdoctoral fellow will have a primary research focus on applying anti-racism principles to health justice and well-being research.

The aim of this fellowship is to train a scholar to further develop and strengthen research competencies in applying anti-racism principles to research on health equity and health justice including: the implications of anti-racism for what and how we study; the importance of focusing on well-being in addition to health; where and how to intervene; the value of historical context and humanities expertise; definitions of expertise and who we have as partners in research; the value of disseminating research through academic and non-academic outlets; engaging literature and expertise from across the globe; policy education and advocacy; and the ability to work effectively in, with, and across communities.

Position Summary

The Postdoctoral Fellow in Health Justice Research will conduct and disseminate research that aligns with the goals and values of the Center for Men’s Health Equity (https://cmhe.georgetown.edu/). The fellow will focus on publishing their dissertation findings, collaborating on manuscripts and projects of the Director of the Center, and developing new research projects.