Global Health Research Program Manager - Infectious Disease

University of California - Los Angeles Health; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 69,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

University of California - Los Angeles Health seeks a leader to manage a global health program advancing mission and strategic goals. You will oversee planning, budgeting, staff supervision, stakeholder engagement, and research support, driving projects from concept to execution.

The role requires collaboration with internal and external partners, managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment, and ensuring compliance with international requirements.

Qualifications

• Willing and able to travel to sub-Saharan Africa up to two times per year for extended periods of time.
• 2 years of experience working in implementation science in Africa and in HIV public health programs.
• Bachelor's degree and/or 4-5 years equivalent combination of education and experience
• 4-5 years of relevant experience.
• Exceptional writing skills to produce wide range of documents and deliverables.
• Experience communicating effectively with UCLA administrators, funders, policymakers and community representatives.
• Ability to communicate medical, policy and administrative information.
• Strong organizational skills to manage complex programs with short deadlines and multiple tasks.

Responsibilities

• Lead program planning, implementation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage budgets, grants, communications, and operational activities.
• Supervise, mentor, and support program staff and project teams.
• Build and maintain partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with applicable policies, regulations, and research requirements.
• Support international research teams with IRB applications meeting requirements.
• Provide technical support for data collection platforms and data quality monitoring.
• Travel to sub-Saharan Africa to support research implementation and capacity-building.
• Assist in developing abstracts, manuscripts, and scholarly reports; support writing.
• Drive strategic initiatives to enhance program impact and sustainability.

Skills

Travel readiness

Grant writing

Policy knowledge

Writing skills

Stakeholder engagement

Program management

Data management

Communication

Training staff

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Description

Lead and manage program operations that advance the mission and strategic goals of a high-impact global health initiative. This role oversees program planning, implementation, financial management, communications, staff supervision, stakeholder engagement, and research support activities while driving key projects from concept through execution.

The successful candidate will collaborate with internal and external partners, manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment, support grant development, and ensure compliance with institutional, state, federal, and international requirements. Responsibilities include supporting global research implementation, international ethical review processes, research data systems, scientific dissemination, and capacity-building efforts in Africa and other global settings.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead program planning, implementation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  
• Manage budgets, grants, communications, and operational activities.
  
• Supervise, mentor, and support program staff and project teams.
  
• Build and maintain partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
  
• Ensure compliance with applicable policies, regulations, human subjects research requirements, and program objectives.
  
• Support international research teams in developing IRB applications that meet UCLA and local ethical review requirements.
  
• Provide technical support for SurveyCTO, ODK/ODT, and other cloud-based data collection platforms, including data quality monitoring.
  
• Provide on-site support for global projects, including travel to Malawi and other countries in Southern and Eastern Africa to support research implementation and capacity-building activities.
  
• Support the development and editing of abstracts, manuscripts, reports, academic posters, presentations, and other scholarly products; provide scientific writing support to international team members.
  
• Drive strategic initiatives that enhance program impact, operational effectiveness, and long-term sustainability.

This position will require the incumbent to be willing and able to travel to sub-Saharan Africa up to two times per year for extended periods of time.

Salary: $6,203.75 - $12,705 monthly

Qualifications

Required

• Willing and able to travel to sub-Saharan Africa up to two times per year for extended periods of time.
• 2 years of experience working in the area of implementation science in Africa and in the field of HIV public health programs.
• Bachelor's degree and/or 4-5 years equivalent comination of education and experience
• 4-5 years of relevant experience.
• Exceptional writing skills to produce wide range of documents and deliverables.
• Experience communicating effectively and professionally and working with a variety of internal and external partners, including UCLA administrators, outside funders, policy makers and community representatives.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate medical, policy and administrative information.
• Strong organizational skills to successfully work on and track complex programs involving short deadlines and multiple tasks, in coordination with multiple teams to achieve program/project mission and goals.
• Working knowledge of program/project development, evaluation, creating datasets, financial management and reporting, research principles including CITI training, grant writing and proposal submission, University procedures and policies, program/project related federal and state regulations.
• Ability to seek out and learn new policies, procedures, and software to advance the mission of the program/project.
• Ability to train new program/project managers and other staff within and external to the unit.

Preferred

• Masters degree or 2-3 years of experience preferred