The Education & Outreach Manager leads the day‑to‑day management of the Cancer Research Training & Education Coordination Core (CRTECC) within the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center (UNMCCC). This role oversees the planning, delivery, evaluation, and ongoing implementation of cancer education, training, and outreach programs serving students and trainees from K12 through fellows and junior faculty. CRTECC is a key part of the NCI P30 Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG), and this position is responsible for ensuring program compliance, accurate reporting, effective workforce development efforts, and smooth operations.
Reporting to the Associate Director of CRTECC, the Education & Outreach Manager works closely with faculty leaders and Community Outreach & Engagement (COE) partners to develop and support cancer career pathway training and education opportunities for New Mexico’s unique communities. The role focuses on thoughtful planning, coordination across teams, responsible budget and resource management, use of data to guide future grant planning and novel training opportunities, supervision of staff and regular trainee engagement.
CRTECC’s mission is to build a skilled and diverse cancer care and research workforce for New Mexico. The Education & Outreach Manager supports this mission by overseeing the implementation of ongoing training and education programs and ensuring these programs are effective in meeting participant and workforce needs through regular engagement with trainees, staff and faculty and program evaluation.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Program Oversight
- Provide strategic direction and operational leadership for CRTECC’s portfolio of education, training, and outreach programs, ensuring integration across educational stages from K12 through faculty.
- Partner with the CRTECC Associate Director and Center leaders to identify gaps, set priorities, and expand program capacity in alignment with Cancer Center, Health Sciences Center, and NCI strategic goals.
- Evaluate program effectiveness, resource utilization, and participant outcomes; lead continuous quality improvement efforts to enhance program impact and sustainability.
Community Outreach, Recruitment & Pathway Development
- Lead statewide and national recruitment, outreach, and pathway-development initiatives that promote inclusive access to cancer education, training and mentoring opportunities.
- Oversee career engagement activities such as recruitment events, conferences, research days, trainee town halls, communications, and professional development programming to support trainee recruitment and success.
Supervisory & Team Leadership
- Provide direct supervision and leadership for CRTECC education and outreach staff, including hiring, performance management, workload planning, and professional development.
- Manage and coordinate work of staff, consultants, faculty collaborators, trainees, interns, and volunteers to ensure cohesive and efficient program delivery.
- Foster a collaborative, accountable, and mission‑driven team culture focused on excellence and equity.
Operational & Administrative Leadership
- Direct and/or delegate day‑to‑day program operations while maintaining accountability for timelines, deliverables, and quality standards.
- Oversee development and review of program materials, reports, correspondence, handbooks, and presentations.
- Serve as a Campus Security Authority under Clery Act guidelines, as required, and ensure compliance with institutional and federal policies.
Financial & Grant Operations Management
- Support CRTECC budget development, monitoring, and forecasting, ensuring alignment with grant requirements and programmatic priorities.
- Provide fiscal oversight for expenditures, purchasing, travel logistics, and PO management.
- Collaborate with faculty to identify and manage external funding opportunities, track deliverables, and align program operations with grant objectives.
P30 CCSG Compliance, Reporting & Data Stewardship
- Support CRTECC’s training, education, and workforce reporting for the P30 CCSG, including annual progress reports, leadership briefings, and future funding submissions.
- Design, maintain, and refine robust trainee and program tracking to ensure high‑quality, auditable data.
- Oversee collection, validation, analysis, and presentation of trainee outcomes and workforce metrics to support compliance, evaluation, and strategic planning.
The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center is the Official Cancer Center of New Mexico and the only National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center in a 500-mile radius. Its 136 board-certified oncology specialty physicians include cancer surgeons in every specialty (abdominal, thoracic, bone and soft tissue, neurosurgery, genitourinary, gynecology, and head and neck cancers), adult and pediatric hematologists/medical oncologists, gynecologic oncologists, and radiation oncologists. They, along with more than 600 other cancer healthcare professionals (nurses, pharmacists, nutritionists, navigators, psychologists and social workers), provide treatment to 65% of New Mexico’s cancer patients from all across the state. And they partner with community health systems statewide to provide cancer care closer to home. In 2024 they treated more than 15,000 patients in almost 105,000 ambulatory clinic visits in addition to in-patient hospitalizations at UNM Hospital. A total of 2,075 patients participated in cancer clinical trials to study new cancer treatments that include tests of novel cancer prevention strategies and cancer genome sequencing. The more than 123 cancer research scientists affiliated with the UNM Cancer Center were awarded $38.3 million in federal and private grants and contracts for cancer research projects. Since 2015, the physicians, scientists and staff have provided education and training experiences to more than 750 high school, undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral fellowship students in cancer research and cancer health care delivery.
Website: unmhealth.org/cancer
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