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Jonathan Paul Lucas

Greensboro,NC

Summary

Experienced with community engagement, focusing on building strong relationships and fostering collaboration. Utilizes strategic planning and innovative approaches to drive participation and support for initiatives. Track record of successfully enhancing community involvement and achieving organizational goals.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of Research

FHI 360
01.2021 - Current
  • Develop operational plans that align with the strategic goals of the department and organization; includes oversight of the community engagement program and evaluation aspects of research projects and provides subject matter and methodological expertise.
  • Oversee eight community engagement program staff in support of large, multi-faceted, international clinical trials networks and other projects including community engagement plans tailored to the overall research agendas, populations of interest and individual studies.
  • Collaborate with internal and external partners for negotiating budgets/or contracts, implementing work plans, ensuring high-quality project deliverables and adherence to timelines and quality standards.
  • Establish study-specific, community program milestones and ensures accurate tracking and reporting of study metrics; ensures that community program timelines, costs, and quality metrics are met.
  • Serve as organizational and network liaison often representing the global community team, organization, and network leadership as a content expert.
  • Perform ongoing vendor (including consultants) management including independent selection process, negotiation of work scope, budgets, performance management, and issue resolution.
  • Recommend and implement innovative process ideas to impact community engagement management, including social media, including sharing of best practices in the development, initiation, planning, execution, control, and delivery of community programs.
  • Oversee the planning, organizing, and conducting network-wide and regional training workshops to support capacity building for research staff and community representatives as part of the community engagement program’s strategic goals within research networks.

Community Research Project Manager

FHI 360
01.2020 - 01.2021
  • Responsible for operational management of four Division of AIDS (DAIDS) funded network community engagement programs utilizing community-based participatory research principles for 15 multi-million-dollar phase I, phase II, and phase III biomedical HIV prevention, HIV treatment, and SARS-CoV-2 prevention research studies domestically and internationally.
  • Collaborate with scientific teams to conceptualize and develop biomedical clinical research protocols with qualitative and quantitative components focusing on populations living with HIV and at increased risk for HIV and SARS-CoV-2 acquisition, including men who have sex with men in the Americas, people who inject drugs in Asia, and women of childbearing age in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Provide technical assistance to pharmaceutical partners as well as ~67 domestic and international clinical research sites (CRS) with respect to planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating their engagement, recruitment, retention, and education strategies.
  • Develop, conduct, and evaluate culturally appropriate network-wide and regional HIV and SARS-CoV-2 scientific literacy training workshops domestically and internationally to adult learners with varying degrees of knowledge of HIV for the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN), International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network (IMPAACT), Microbicide Trials Network (MTN), and COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN) community working groups (CWG), CRSs staff, community advisory boards (CAB), community based organizations (CBOs), AIDS service organizations (ASO), and influential community advocates.
  • Conceptualize and write abstracts and manuscripts focusing on community engagement activities across four National Institutes of Health (NIH) DAIDS HIV prevention and treatment scientific networks. Manage talented team of community program associates.
  • Supervise three personnel focusing on community engagement practices, coordination between internal and external community partners and research teams and informing internal and external stakeholders on research portfolio progress and milestones.

Community Program Manager III

FHI 360
01.2011 - 01.2020
  • Responsible for operational management of three Division of AIDS (DAIDS) funded network community engagement programs utilizing community-based participatory research principles for 22 multi-million-dollar phase I, phase II, and phase III biomedical HIV prevention research studies domestically and internationally.
  • Collaborated with scientific teams to conceptualize and develop biomedical clinical research protocols with qualitative and quantitative components focusing on populations at increased risk for HIV acquisition including men who have sex with men in the Americas, people who inject drugs in Asia, and women of childbearing age in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Provided technical assistance to ~32 domestic and international CRS with respect to planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating their engagement, recruitment, retention, and education strategies.
  • Developed, conducted, and evaluated culturally appropriate network-wide and regional HIV scientific literacy training workshops domestically and internationally to adult learners with varying degrees of knowledge of HIV for the HPTN, IMPAACT and MTN CWGs, CRSs staff, CABs, CBOs, ASOs, and influential community advocates.
  • Conceptualized and wrote abstracts and manuscripts focusing on community engagement activities across three National Institutes of Health (NIH) DAIDS HIV prevention and treatment scientific networks.
  • Supervised two personnel focusing on community engagement practices, coordination between internal and external community partners and research teams and informing internal and external stakeholders on research portfolio progress and milestones.

Education

Master of Public Health -

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, School of Health and Human Sciences
Greensboro, North Carolina
05.2006

Skills

  • Partnership development
  • Strategic planning
  • Project management
  • Conflict resolution

Timeline

Director of Research

FHI 360
01.2021 - Current

Community Research Project Manager

FHI 360
01.2020 - 01.2021

Community Program Manager III

FHI 360
01.2011 - 01.2020

Master of Public Health -

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, School of Health and Human Sciences

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