Req #: 243752

Department: HARBORVIEW - INTERPRETER SERVICES

Posting Date: 02/26/2025

Closing Info: Open Until Filled

Salary: $5,114 - $7,400 per month

Shift: First Shift

Notes: This position provides opportunities to work in a fast-paced, challenging, diverse and rewarding environment. As an employee you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For detailed information on Benefits for this position, click here ( https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-staff-20230119_a11y.pdf)

HARBORVIEW’S ETHNOMED DEPARTMENT has an outstanding opportunity for a PROGRAM OPERATIONS SPECIALIST WORK SCHEDULE

• 100%FTE

• Day Shift

• May need to occasionally work on weekends and evenings to accommodate community meetings and events. POSITION HIGHLIGHTS

• Serve as a key resource to the HMC Interpreter Services Department DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION EthnoMed was created as a resource for Harborview Medical Center providers working with refugee, immigrant, and migrant patients and families. Over the past 30 years, the EthnoMed program has established itself as a cultural bridge, providing the following key services: 1) Educating providers on clinical and cultural topics relevant to patient care 2) Providing patients with culturally tailored health resources 3) Conducting community engagement, education, and outreach throughout King County 4) Creating opportunities for students and medical trainees to work with diverse patient populations

  JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Accountable for EthnoMed's student/volunteer engagement program

• Serve as EthnoMed’s primary contact and liaison with partners and academic programs.

• Recruit student authors by preparing and posting project descriptions to university list servers and other recruitment sites, and evaluating applicants

• Responsible for the development and documentation of active and future project plans

• Monitor project progress and identify potential obstacles/delays, proactively suggest and implement solutions

• Design, create and update program brochures and flyers and other promotional materials

• Collaborate with Web Information Specialist to regularly audit current published information, flagging content for recommended updates and identifyingpossible future projects

• Maintain program reporting data for internal and external requirements, including grant reports, ISD administrative meetings, and more REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Anthropology, Pre-Medicine, journalism, communications, sociology, or related field

• Minimum 2-3 years of professional experience, preferably in a project management role

• Experience in cross-cultural engagement, cross-cultural healthcare, and/or working with diverse populations

• Strong project management skills. Ability to prioritize work appropriately, juggling short-term and long-term deadlines

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including ability to work effectively both as a team member and independently with minimal supervision and ability tointeract positively with a wide variety of people

• Ability to lead qualitative inquiry (e.g., via literature review, group discussions and interviews) and synthesize diverse input.

• Able to write and edit proficiently. Fluent English communication skills, orally and in writing

• Experience and/or strong interest in multimedia, social media, and website content development

• Ability to work occasional weekends and evenings as needed to accommodate community meetings and events DESIRED

• Masters degree (Public Health, Social Work, Communications, or related field) and/or experience working closely with graduate and post-graduate levelstudents and trainees.

• Strong interest in public speaking and/or networking

• Experience working with the public or representing an organization to other organizations

• Experience working with community-based nonprofits

• Experience with multimedia production, including videos, social media, digital resources, etc.

• Experience with design and layout of written materials and web-based content

• Have knowledge of, or ability to learn, use of devices and software for capturing and producing content in multimedia formats (e.g., videography,photography, audio-editing, Adobe Creative Suite), and in various languages/fonts

• Experience with grant writing and reporting ABOUT HARBORVIEW MEDICAL CENTER As the region's only Level I Trauma and verified burn center, Harborview Medical Center is a comprehensive healthcare facility owned by King County and operated by UW Medicine. It is dedicated to providing specialized care for a broad spectrum of patients from throughout the Pacific Northwest, including the most vulnerable residents of King County. It provides exemplary patient care in leading-edge centers of emphasis, including emergency medicine, trauma and burn care, neurosciences, ophthalmology, vascular surgery, HIV/AIDS, rehabilitation, mental health and substance abuse care.Harborview employees are committed to the vital role the institution plays in the immediate community, as well as the entire Northwest region. Challenge. Collaboration. Compassion. (https://www.uwmedicine.org/about/career-opportunities/harborview-medical-center) Become part of our team. Join our mission to make life healthier for everyone in our community. ABOUT UW MEDICINE – WHERE YOUR IMPACT GOES FURTHER UW Medicine is Washington’s only health system that includes a top-rated medical school and an internationally recognized research center. UW Medicine’s mission is to improve the health of the public by advancing medical knowledge, providing outstanding primary and specialty care to the people of the region, and preparing tomorrow’s physicians, scientists and other health professionals.All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student and colleague is valued and honored. Nearly 29,000 healthcare professionals, researchers, and educators work in the UW Medicine family of organizations that includes: Harborview Medical Center, UW Medical Center - Montlake, UW Medical Center - Northwest, Valley Medical Center, UW Medicine Primary Care, UW Physicians, UW School of Medicine, and Airlift Northwest. Become part of our team. (https://www.uwmedicine.org/jobs) Join our mission to make life healthier for everyone in our community.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.