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Account/Position No.:  230543/502840                                                            

Position Title:  Project Director/Assistant Professor       

Department:  College of Public Health                                                          

Expectations for All Employees

East Tennessee State University pursues its mission based upon core values.  An employee's job performance must support and exhibit the university's core values:

PEOPLE come first, are treated with dignity and respect, and are encouraged to achieve their full potential;

RELATIONSHIPS are built on honesty, integrity and trust;

DIVERSITY of people and thought is respected;

EXCELLENCE is achieved through teamwork, leadership, creativity, and a strong work ethic;

EFFICIENCY is achieved through wise use of human and financial resources; and

COMMITMENT to intellectual achievement is embraced.

Function of Position

Responsible to the Department of Public Health for overseeing the Coordinated School Health Evaluation for the State of Tennessee; managing programmatic and administrative aspects of the evaluation; coordinating with subject matter expert; providing assignments and managing successful completion of deliverables; and working with subject matter experts to define and map project deliverables and timelines.

Essential Functions

-        Supervises the data collection in each site and the cumulative data collection for the total evaluation project including information from the pilot sites and the State Office of Coordinated School Health.

-        Provides consult to the CSH Coordinators and their associates as needed throughout the contract period.

-        Provides information and recommendations to the Director of CSH regarding the evaluation and any aspect of the total project.

-        Collects, analyzes, processes and interprets the data.

-        Provides a written report to the Director and the individual coordinators based on analysis of the data.

-        Reports results from the coordinator’s survey for the evaluation of the State office.

-        Provides biannual reports to the Director of Coordinated School Health.

-        Provides a written annual report at the end of the contract year.

-        Provides requests for expended funds no more than quarterly. (These expenditures must follow the guidelines as reference in C1 through C11 in the contract document).

-        Prepares a written report from the Quarterly Progress/Process reports provided by the Director and the pilot site coordinators. Based on the data from 2001-2005. Evaluation will be made over a five year period to detect secular trends and identify significant changes in targeted outcome objectives.

-        Provides information, support, and assistance as needed to the individual Coordinators and others in the system sites for the purpose of collecting the required date.

-        Travels to Nashville and to the individual pilot sites for the purpose of providing information to legislators, school administrators or other groups

-        Develops a software program to collect and manage data from evaluation outcome objectives. Software to be provided to all pilot site coordinators.

-        Assists the state director with conferences, meetings, and travel as needed for the continuity of the evaluation.

Secondary Functions

-        Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge and Abilities

-        Ability to independently make decisions.

-        Ability to communicate effectively both orally and written.

-        Knowledge of strategic planning.

-        Knowledge of Fiscal Management

-        Knowledge of logistic planning.

-        Ability to speak in public relations.

-        Knowledge of project management.

Supervision Given and Received

Performs under general supervision. Determines own methods of performing assigned work.

Minimum Qualifications

Required: Master’s degree in Business or Health related field from an accredited college. Three to five years experience of satisfactory, full-time progressively responsible management experience requiring independent decision-making concerning program management or planning, allocation for resources and the scheduling and assignment of work.  Should be eligible for faculty appointment in a public health discipline.

March 2008