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This is considered an entry-level position with potential to grow with demonstrated proficiency within the specific community academic setting of an active research partnership funded within a national alliance: WEAVE NM as part of NIH CEAL, working to promote health equity, improve health outcomes, and strengthen partnerships through community-engaged research.

Specific duties for this position include, but are not limited to: supporting data collection, reporting, and analysis for WEAVE NM and allied research projects as part of the UNM TREE Center; implementing data and reporting quality assurance protocols; synthesizing and summarizing data within reports and presentations as needed; maintaining records for periodic and ad hoc reporting of research activities; and ensuring the smooth and efficient day-to-day operation of data collection and analysis and related research activities.

The Transdisciplinary Research Equity and Engagement Center is among twelve research centers of excellence (COEs) funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). Collectively, these centers play a vital role in realizing NIMHD's mission to support research in minority health and health disparities, promote the training of a diverse research workforce, disseminate research findings, and foster innovative collaborations and partnerships. Housed at the University of New Mexico, the TREE Center cultivates the collective passion and responsibility among local state, tribal and national stakeholders to create opportunities for transformative impact to:

1) Improve health equity among diverse communities;

2) Nurture community/academic ways of knowing; and

3) Prepare the next generation for conducting transdisciplinary multi-level intervention research.

The WEAVE New Mexico is a multi-level intervention, Heart Health and Nutrition for Life (HHNL) is designed to advance the science of community engaged health disparities research across multi-cultural populations, ensuring high rigor and reproducibility. Using a multi-phase randomized control design, we will examine whether patients diagnosed with hypertension that receive standard clinical care plus community health workers/promotores and community-based interventions will show improvements in clinical patient reported outcomes compared to a control group receiving only standard clinical care.

The specific aims of this community-engaged, mixed method project are:

Aim 1. Engage with community partners in the development, implementation and translation and dissemination of a multi-level clinical-community and food security interventions in order to reduce the biomedical, socio-cultural and environmental risks and cardio-vascular disease (hypertension) among Latinos, Native American, African American and Asian American communities living in the rural and metropolitan areas of Albuquerque, New Mexico;

Aim 2. Assess the effectiveness of the a community health worker and community-based intervention in enhancing cardio-vascular disease (hypertension) treatment efforts;

Aim 3. Develop culturally aligned and community-based environmental interventions across four multi-cultural groups to reduce the environmental and structural risks of food insecurity as a pathway to hypertension; and

Aim 4. Translate and disseminate the results and outcomes from Aims 2 and 3 in order to replicate best practices for managing cardiovascular disease and the complex related conditions affecting multi-cultural populations in other Federally Qualified Health Centers.

See the Position Description for additional information.

High school diploma or GED; at least 5 years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.

Completed degree(s) from an accredited institution that are above the minimum education requirement may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis.

Preferred Qualifications:

• *Knowledge of technical and statistical programs used for data collection and/or analysis of data including but not limited to Excel, R, Stata, and REDCap.
• *Ability to understand and utilize data within multiple contexts.
• *Ability to provide high quality professional writing and reports.
• *Experience with community engaged research partnerships.
• * Knowledge of common secondary data sources used in health equity research reporting and proposal development.

Additional Requirements: Some in state travel may be required

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