Program Coordinator II

About this role

Job Title Program Coordinator II

Agency Texas A&M Agrilife Research

Department Dallas

Proposed Minimum Salary Commensurate

Job Location Dallas, Texas

Job Type Staff

Job Description About Texas A&M AgriLife Texas A&M AgriLife is comprised of the following Texas A&M University System members: • Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service • Texas A&M AgriLife Research • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University • Texas A&M Forest Service • Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory

As the nation’s largest most comprehensive agriculture program, Texas A&M AgriLife brings together a college and four state agencies focused on agriculture and life sciences within The Texas A&M University System. With over 5,000 employees and a presence in every county across the state, Texas A&M AgriLife is uniquely positioned to improve lives, environments and the Texas economy through education, research, extension and service.

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Position Information Texas A&M AgriLife’s Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture (IHA) Healthy Living program, based at the AgriLife Center at Dallas, seeks an experienced Program Coordinator II to work in close collaboration and coordination with the Healthy Living team, led by IHA Associate director, Dr. Rebecca Seguin-Fowler, whose work focuses on community-engaged research to address and ameliorate health disparities. The Program Coordinator II, under general supervision, works collaboratively with the Healthy Living team to plan, develop, and implement projects as well as provide technical, business management, administrative, and operational support to program leadership, including the Associate Director of Healthy Living.

Texas A&M AgriLife is an organization that supports healthy living for all Texans, through the research of tailored agricultural practices that yield nutritious food sources, outreach programs that train community members on growing their own food, and preservation of natural resources via eco-friendly means, all while following practices that lead to a stronger Texas economy. Overseen by the Office of the Vice Chancellor and Dean for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M AgriLife includes the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences at Texas A&M University, Texas A&M Forest Service, and Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory.

The Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture (IHA) is the world’s first academic institute to bring together precision nutrition, responsive agriculture, and social and behavioral healthy living research to reduce diet-related chronic disease in a way that considers environmental and economic factors. The IHA unites experts from various fields such as agriculture, nutrition, behavioral sciences, exercise physiology, health communications, public health, social sciences, life sciences, engineering, data and computation science, and economics.

Healthy Living implements, evaluates, and disseminates scientific solutions, applicable to all Texans, for improved public health. The Healthy Living team works on a broad portfolio of extramurally funded, community-engaged research and active collaborations with community partners, cooperative extension, and many academic and nonprofit organizations throughout Texas and beyond. We aim to understand the means of building communities around healthy living and about facilitating the delivery of current, accurate, evidence-based programs, guidelines, and information that supports healthier living for Texans. Areas of particular interest to Healthy Living include health promotion, food access, food systems, food and nutrition insecurity, dietary patterns and behaviors, diet/food interventions, program development and evaluation, physical activity behaviors and intervention development, policy system and environmental change, citizen science and community-engaged research, and mHealth technologies and interventions. The IHA’s Healthy Living program is housed at the Texas A&M AgriLife Center at Dallas, which focuses on scientific research, public outreach, and education programs. The Center is a regional hub for Texas A&M AgriLife activity. It is one of 13 AgriLife Centers across the state - each focusing on issues specific to their region. Broad focus areas at the Dallas Center include healthy living, urban agriculture and forestry, and water and land resource management.

Responsibilities: • Provide administrative, operational, and project management support to Healthy Living leadership, including managing complex calendars, coordinating meetings and travel, preparing agendas and materials, and supporting stakeholder engagement activities. • Assist with fiscal management activities, including budget development, monitoring, forecasting, financial reporting, purchasing, travel, reimbursements, payroll allocations, and fiscal year planning.

• Coordinate meetings, advisory groups, and stakeholder activities, serving as a liaison between program leadership and internal and external partners.

• Prepare, review, and analyze financial, operational, and administrative reports; assist in identifying funding opportunities; support documentation and reporting requirements for grants, contracts, and program operations.

• Assist with the management and coordination of the Healthy Living portfolio by supporting program planning, goal setting, implementation, evaluation, and continuous process improvement efforts.

• Collaborate with the Healthy Living team to support the planning, development, implementation, and coordination of community-engaged research projects, programs, and strategic initiatives.

• Coordinate internal and external communications, including the preparation of reports, presentations, correspondence, executive communications

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