Essential Job Tasks Disease Surveillance and Investigation • Serve as the Project Coordinator for the TN STI Surveillance Network (SSuN) site. • Create revised gonorrhea questionnaire to accommodate SSuN enhanced surveillance questions. • Serve as the lead for gonorrhea surveillance in TN. • Draft surveillance system changes to incorporate new data elements. • Create REDCap databases to support project needs. • Manage data extraction, cleaning, and transmission to CDC. • Oversee SSuN interview and data collection activities through a combination of monitoring centralized and regional interviewers. • Design gonorrhea and syphilis sampling strategy and work with STI surveillance and informatics staff to implement randomized sampling of incoming gonorrhea and syphilis investigations. • Develop evaluation and monitoring plan including monitoring timeliness, outcome, and completeness of patient interviews. • Research and implement innovative interview and partner services strategies, such as virtual/telehealth interviews, or improved internet partner services efforts. • Complete all grant deliverables including metrics reporting and managing annual grant reapplication.

Planning, Coordination, and Information Sharing • Lead the writing of SSuN grant progress reports, work plans, and narratives. • Participate in monthly and quarterly CDC SSuN calls and annual in person meetings. • Work with regional and centralized staff to ensure implementation of enhanced interviews for sampled patients. • Share project updates during team meetings.

Preferred qualifications - Experience with and knowledge of the epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections. - Disease intervention training or experience. - Proficiency in SQL, SAS, or R. - Proficiency in REDCap. - Experience with using NBS for STIs.