Program Coordinator II (Global Health)

Location: College Station, Texas, United States; some domestic travel is required to support network activities and events.

Company

Texas A&M University’s Global Health Research Complex supports multidisciplinary large-animal and insect-vector research, education, and training, while the RAV3N network connects university and federal laboratories working in veterinary science, agriculture, biodefense, and high-containment research.

What you will do

• Support the Program Manager with monthly, quarterly, and annual program planning, implementation, evaluation, meetings, working groups, and collaborative projects.
• Prepare agendas, meeting materials, summaries, records, databases, action-item tracking, and program documentation.
• Develop, edit, and distribute communications; maintain websites, social media, newsletters, and other communication platforms.
• Coordinate logistics for meetings, workshops, trainings, conferences, and other network activities, including registration, venues, catering, materials, participant support, onsite setup, and follow-up.
• Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders and identify collaboration opportunities in One Health, pandemic preparedness, agriculture, veterinary medicine, and related fields.
• Support reimbursements, purchasing, expenditures, and travel-related administrative processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in biological sciences, animal science, agriculture, veterinary medicine, communications, public relations, public health, business administration, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Four years of related experience in program coordination, communications, event planning, stakeholder engagement, administrative support, or related fields.
• Excellent interpersonal, networking, relationship-building, oral and written communication, editing, proofreading, and attention-to-detail skills.
• Ability to coordinate training activities and projects with stakeholders, instructors, subject-matter experts, and participants; work independently and collaboratively; multitask; meet deadlines; and adapt to shifting priorities.
• Ability to exercise initiative, sound judgment, discretion, problem-solving, and confidentiality when handling sensitive information and research-related discussions.
• Ability to use Microsoft Teams, word-processing, spreadsheet, presentation, database, website, and social-media applications.
• Ability to perform all responsibilities safely and in compliance with Texas A&M System guidelines.

Nice to have

• Interest or experience in One Health, pandemic preparedness, veterinary medicine, agriculture, biocontainment research, zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases, or related fields.
• Familiarity with biocontainment research environments, biosafety and biosecurity principles, and BSL-2, BSL-3, BSL-3Ag, BSL-4, and BSL-4Ag facilities and operations.
• Experience planning professional meetings, workshops, trainings, conferences, educational programs, or workforce-development activities.
• Experience writing and editing for varied audiences; maintaining websites, social media, newsletters, or other communication channels; preparing reports; and supporting budget tracking.
• Experience working with academic, research, and government agencies.
• Experience using Canva, Adobe Express, or similar graphic-design and content-creation tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time staff position with compensation commensurate with the selected candidate’s experience.
• Grant- and contract-funded position contingent on continued funding and satisfactory performance.
• Medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, accidental-death-and-dismemberment, flexible-spending, and long-term-disability coverage, with Texas A&M contributing to employee health and basic life premiums.
• Paid holidays, monthly sick and vacation leave, Teacher Retirement System of Texas enrollment, wellness programs, and professional-development support.
• LinkedIn Learning, conference and workshop support, educational release time, and tuition assistance are available to employees.
• All positions are security-sensitive; employment requires a criminal-history investigation and verification of credentials and other required information.

Hiring process

• A cover letter and resume are strongly recommended.
• Employment is contingent on completion of the required criminal-history check and institutional verification procedures.