Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The University of Texas at Austin is seeking a Senior Project Manager for the Texas Institute for Excellence in Mental Health. This role involves managing a state initiative aimed at providing early childhood mental health consultation and strengthening the workforce in Texas.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate individual and group training and provide technical assistance to community implementation sites to support the effective delivery of infant and early childhood mental health consultation services in targeted communities
- Collaborate with local stakeholders and state organizations to develop strategic approaches that advance policy, funding, and workforce development efforts, enhancing access to high-quality infant and early childhood mental health consultation services across Texas
- Partner with team members and staff in related early childhood projects to support training, communication, and evaluation efforts that build state capacity
- Collaborate with community partners to facilitate budgeting, invoicing, and subaward processing in coordination with the Principal Investigator
- Participate in regular project management meetings. Maintain up-to-date work plans. Participate in annual budget development
- Oversee the development of programmatic reports for funding agencies. Contribute to evaluation and other program reports
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in social work, psychology, public health, or related health and human service field with at least 5 years experience in project management
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Values the contributions of others in the work environment
- Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate
- Master's Degree in social work, psychology, public health, or related health and human service field with at least 5 or more years of experience in early childhood systems
- Experience in infant and early childhood consultation and technical assistance
- Excellent research, relationship-building, and strategic planning skills
- Experience in state policy or program development
Benefits
- Ability to work remotely within the state of Texas.
- Retirement Plan Eligibility: The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.
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