Part-time Project Coordinator; Research Assistant; Data Systems and Evaluation, UMKC School

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University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing and Health Studies

Department of Health Sciences

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UMKC is rated R1 by the Carnegie Research Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

The 12-month, part time (70% FTE - 28 hours per week) Project Coordinator (Research Assistant) – Data Systems and Evaluationposition will support the implementation of a federally funded,national multi-site evaluation conducted by the University of Missouri–Kansas City in partnership with the Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau (HRSA HAB).

The project serves as the Evaluation Provider for the SPNSinitiative, A National Evaluation Model for Scaling HIV Care Engagement and Retention Strategies. The initiative will use a mixed-methods implementation science approach to evaluate strategies designed to improve linkage, engagement, and retention in HIV care across participating Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program implementation sites. The evaluation will examine implementation processes and outcomes, client and service outcomes, cost, sustainability, adaptations, barriers and facilitators, and contextual factors influencing implementation.

The Project Coordinator will play a central role in developing and maintaining the project's evaluation infrastructure, coordinating data collection and submission processes, monitoring data quality, supporting qualitative research activities, and assisting implementation sites with evaluation systems and reporting requirements.

• Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of secure project data systems.
• Build, test, maintain, and update REDCap, Qualtrics, and related electronic data collection tools.
• Develop and maintain data dictionaries, data collection forms, submission templates, tracking systems, and site reporting tools.
• Coordinate data submission workflows with implementation-site evaluation staff.
• Monitor the completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and consistency of submitted data.
• Conduct routine data quality checks and assist with identifying missing values, duplicate records, out-of-range values, inconsistencies, and documentation concerns.
• Assist with data cleaning, documentation, coding, and preparation of datasets for analysis.
• Support the development of dashboards, site-specific reports, feedback reports, and other data summaries.

These responsibilities directly reflect the staffing plan, which assigns the Project Coordinator responsibility for REDCap/Qualtrics systems, data submission processes, data quality monitoring, data cleaning, and site-facing evaluation tools.

• Support qualitative data collection activities, including interviews, focus groups, field notes, and implementation assessments.
• Coordinate interview and focus-group scheduling, tracking, transcription, file management, and documentation.
• Prepare qualitative data for coding and analysis.
• Participate in qualitative coding, codebook development, memoing, data synthesis, and related analytic activities as assigned.
• Assist the evaluation team in documenting implementation barriers and facilitators, adaptations, fidelity, implementation strategies, workflow changes, and emerging site needs.
• Support integration of qualitative information with quantitative evaluation findings.

The broader evaluation uses qualitative implementation data alongside quantitative data to understand implementation progress, adaptations, barriers, facilitators, fidelity, and differences across sites.

• Serve as a resource…