Posting Number: #1824
Position Title: Director, Tracking California
Closing Date: Until Filled
Location: Remote, USA
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The Public Health Institute (PHI) is seeking an outstanding and visionary leader in the field of environmental health and climate change to serve as Director for its long-established program, Tracking California. Tracking California's mission is to mobilize data for public health action (see www.trackingcalifornia.org). Tracking California promotes justice and health equity by working with community groups, government agencies, researchers, and health advocates to shine a spotlight on environmental hazards, climate change and other factors that may be impacting community health.
Position Summary
The Research Program Director II serves as the Director of Tracking California and will be Principal Investigator for several research and other public health projects within the Tracking California program as well as the Achieving Resilient Communities project. The Director is responsible for the overall vision, strategic direction and programmatic leadership for Tracking California and its affiliate, the Achieving Resilient Communities (ARC) Project. The Director is also responsible for securing funding resources for Tracking California and spearheading multi-year grant proposals.
The Director provides leadership and scientific direction for an interdisciplinary team-which has expertise in climate change and environmental health research and surveillance, health communications, policy, and community engaged research. The Director also collaborates with leadership of other PHI programs and works to enhance and strengthen PHI's portfolio of projects U.S. and global programs in the areas of environmental health and climate change research. This position works to advance the program's strategic priorities including program expansion, and funding opportunities at a state, national and global level. The position collaborates with ARC and other PHI programs' leadership to integrate new initiatives and projects focused on the climate crisis and environmental health as synergies are identified.
The Director will be credentialed as a Principal Investigator at the Public Health Institute (PHI), reporting to the PHI's Associate Vice President for Research Programs.
This is a regular full-time position. There is some flexibility to change to part-time to accommodate other part-time commitments such as academic appointments. The starting FTE will be determined upon hire.
Strong preference will be given to California-based candidates with consideration provided to candidates located elsewhere in the United States dependent on exceptional qualifications and experience. This position works remotely, with required regular visits across California and other regular business travel required.
Full salary range for this position: $140,759 to $219,794 per year. The typical hiring range for this position is from $140,759 (minimum) to $180, 277 (midpoint), based on 100% FTE. The starting salary is determined based on the candidate's knowledge, skills, experience, as well as budget availability.
Employment Type: Full Time
Essential Duties & ResponsibilitiesMinimum Qualifications
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FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT (FLSA) STATUS
This position is classified as exempt based on the job duties. However, based on the FTE, salary level of the employee, or federal/state/local laws, the employee may be classified as nonexempt.
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