Curriculum, Research, and Evaluation Lead Application

Curriculum, Research, and Evaluation Lead

Last Updated on 11.01.2026

Reports To: GME Manager

Dotted Line: CEO / COO

Works Directly With: Chief Quality Officer, Residency Directors, Curricular Activity Directors, STRIVE NEXT Principal Investigator and Project Director

Location: Multiple Campuses

Background: Cahaba Medical Care Foundation is a community health center providing medical, pharmacy, dental, and behavioral health services to diverse underserved communities in Alabama. We are a Level 3 Patient-Centered Medical Home and Joint Commission accredited organization, committed to increasing integration and coordination of behavioral health and primary care. This is an exciting, fast paced practice with a strong mission and commitment to providing high quality care.

Purpose: Cahaba is a Teaching Health Center. Since 2014 the residency has had a Curriculum and Research Coordinator who helped design, evaluate, and publish the work of the program. This position is the next version of that role, built for an organization that now serves 47,000 patients and trains residents in family medicine, psychiatry, nursing, and pharmacy. It owns evaluation across the organization, in residency education and in clinical quality, so that the data we already collect becomes reports, grant applications, presentations, and publications. Its first assignment is program evaluation and federal performance reporting for STRIVE NEXT, a three-year HRSA cooperative agreement (HRSA-26-108) that makes Cahaba the national coordinating hub for HIV clinical training in primary care residency programs. The Evaluation Lead designs and runs the data systems that show whether the program works across 8 partner residency programs. Across the organization, the role grows Cahaba's evaluation and data capacity more broadly: supporting other grants, GME programs, quality improvement, and grant applications across the organization.

First Assignment: STRIVE NEXT Evaluation (HRSA-26-108)

The Evaluation Lead is key personnel on the award and owns its instruments, data quality, and reporting. This assignment is the majority of the role in Year 1, while the network is built and baseline data are collected.

• Finalize the evaluation plan, logic model, and data collection instruments with the HRSA project officer, including the OMB-approved AETC evaluation tools

• Build the network data system: secure data management, a data dictionary, common performance measures, and submission procedures for every partner site

• Train and support each partner site's Project Support Person on local data collection and completion

• Support implementation readiness assessments at partner sites (faculty capacity, clinical training opportunities, educational infrastructure, technology, and institutional support)

• Administer and manage the resident pre- and post-competency and confidence assessments and the alumni practice survey across the network, and compile milestone-based and direct-observation competency data

• Collect and validate quarterly performance data from partner sites, reviewing it for completeness, accuracy, and consistency before analysis and submission to HRSA

• Build and maintain quarterly network dashboards for leadership, partner sites, and HRSA

• Lead quarterly performance reviews and continuous quality improvement cycles with the Project Director, Principal Investigator, and partner programs, and provide quarterly performance feedback to each site

• Prepare evaluation content for annual progress reports and federal performance reports; also prepare data updates for monthly HRSA project officer check-ins and bimonthly AETC meetings, keeping current on AETC and HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau reporting requirements

• Track graduate outcomes, including residents practicing HIV care in Ending the HIV Epidemic jurisdictions and high-incidence communities, using the baseline-anchored alumni practice survey across all partner sites

• Carry out the evaluation timeline: baseline data in Year 1, annual cohort analyses in Years 2 and 3, and a summative evaluation in Year 4 that assesses outcomes and replicability (implementation fidelity, adaptability across settings, and sustained integration of the curriculum)

• Continue the evaluation of Cahaba's existing STRIVE network (four family medicine residencies, a nurse practitioner residency, and a pharmacy residency) and connect it to the national program

• Build the evaluation tools in the STRIVE NEXT replication toolkit and share evaluation findings through the National Learning Collaborative

• Disseminate evaluation findings through national presentations (including STFM and the National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care and Treatment), webinars, and peer-reviewed publications, following HRSA clearance and approval requirements, with a goal of 5 to 10 publications from STRIVE and STRIVE NEXT over the award

Organization-wide evaluation and data

• Own evaluation design, data analysis, and reporting for Cahaba's grants and programs, in residency education and in clinical quality

• Support graduate medical education outcome tracking and accreditation data needs, resident evaluations, and OSCEs

• Help write evaluation plans and logic models for new grant applications, so Cahaba is ready for the next funding opportunity: what data we have, what is missing, and what baseline we can show

• Support clinical quality improvement projects and data-driven decision-making across the organization

• Do higher-order analysis of clinical quality initiatives with the Quality team. Example: after a colorectal cancer screening initiative doubles a quality measure, find who still falls through the cracks, how results compare with earlier years, and what the next grant should fund

• Partner with GME on the grant reporting cycle, including Teaching Health Center GME annual performance reports and narratives, nurse practitioner residency reporting, graduate placement data, and the annual alumni survey

• Forecast data gaps before each reporting cycle and lead a short debrief after it, so the same problems are not repeated the next year

• Provide data support for Cahaba's HIV clinical programs

• Serve as evaluator for other Cahaba grants as assigned (for example, Rural Health Transformation subawards, behavioral health, and New Access Point awards): design data collection across sites, keep it on schedule, and write the evaluation sections of reports

• Support ACGME accreditation work for each residency, including Annual Program Evaluation data, self-studies, and CLER visit preparation with the Chief Quality Officer and program leadership

• Track in-training exam and board pass data, and support faculty with the data side of individualized learning plans, board review, and flipped classroom curricula for residents who need academic support

• Build longitudinal and cohort analyses that follow patients over time and across referrals, so Cahaba can see whether care loops close, not only whether a measure was met

• Set up measures and a baseline at the start of each new program or grant (for example, medication for addiction treatment or a new residency track), so outcomes can be shown later

• Support Cahaba's annual community health needs assessment and other surveys of patients, staff, and community partners, including survey design, analysis, and reporting

• Document data sources, definitions, and report steps so recurring reports are repeatable and do not depend on one person

• Prepare data summaries and dashboards for Cahaba leadership, the Board of Directors, and funders as requested

Scholarship and publication

• Look across the work of the organization and help design projects so they can be published from the start: the right questions, data collected the right way, and IRB approval when needed

• Help faculty content experts turn their educational and clinical innovations (for example, point-of-care ultrasound and EKG interpretation) into abstracts, posters, presentations, and manuscripts

• Work with the Chief Quality Officer and the quality team to frame Cahaba's clinical quality projects (at least a half dozen each year) in publishable ways, and bring residents along as co-authors

• Support a goal of 2 to 3 publications per year in family medicine education journals (for example, Family Medicine and PRiMER) and an accepted presentation at every STFM Annual Spring Conference, STFM Conference on Practice Improvement, and AFMRD Residency Leadership Summit

• Assist with IRB submissions and research compliance for program evaluation, quality improvement, and educational scholarship

• Coordinate the residency's FPIN and similar evidence-based writing projects, including serving as local editor

• Track resident scholarly activity against ACGME requirements and support the residency's year-long journal club

Resident and faculty education

• Serve as a lead teammate, with the Chief Quality Officer and faculty, on residents' required quality improvement projects (about 20 each year): help small projects grow when they show promise, and close them out well when they do not

• Guide residents through scholarly projects, including quality-adjacent scholarly activity designed in-house

• Assist with curriculum development and evaluation for residents, fellows, medical students, and other learners, with the faculty lead for each content area, including curriculum guides

• Assist with teaching residents about research, quality improvement, and patient safety / ethics / root cause analysis in conjunction with the Program Director and Associate Program Directors

• Teach evaluation and data methods to nurses and staff whose work is next to this role, and help grow that capacity across the organization

Data and tools

• Work with data from Athena (electronic health record), Azara (population health analytics), and Google Workspace (Forms, Sheets, and Gemini)

• Recommend and build better tools when needed (for example, REDCap, Qualtrics, or Tableau)

• Work with the clinical and quality staff who build custom reports

Scope and settings

• Work across Cahaba's family medicine residency tracks (rural Centreville, urban West End, frontier Black Belt, and the UAB campus), the rural psychiatry residency, and the nurse practitioner and pharmacy residencies

• Serve on residency and clinic committees as assigned

• Develop, with the CEO/DIO, an annual plan of evaluation and scholarship priorities across the organization

Required

• Master's degree in public health, evaluation, health behavior, epidemiology, biostatistics, education, social science, or a related field

• At least 3 years of experience evaluating health, education, or workforce programs

• Skill in survey design, quantitative analysis, and data visualization (for example Excel, R, Stata, SAS, or SPSS, plus Tableau, Power BI, or similar)

• Experience with federal grant performance reporting (for example, HRSA EHB)

• Clear writing and the ability to explain data to clinical and non-technical audiences

• Experience presenting or publishing evaluation or research findings

Preferred

• Doctoral degree (PhD, DrPH, or EdD), completed or in progress, or equivalent evaluation experience

• Experience evaluating HRSA-funded or multi-site programs

• Familiarity with AETC evaluation requirements or HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau reporting

• Experience with REDCap, Qualtrics, SPSS, SAS, Tableau, or similar data collection platforms

• Background in graduate medical education, competency-based assessment, community health centers, or HIV

• Mixed-methods evaluation experience

• Experience with grant writing and grants management

• Experience with IRB submissions

• Experience teaching adult learners or in clinical education

Work Environment and Schedule

• Full-time. In person at Cahaba headquarters in Centreville at least two days per week, with regular travel to residency sites (West End, Perry and Wilcox counties, the psychiatry residency, and the UAB campus)

• Remaining days may be hybrid as agreed with the supervisor

Funding and effort

This position is funded initially through the STRIVE NEXT cooperative agreement with HRSA and is designated key personnel. STRIVE NEXT evaluation is the first assignment and the majority of effort in Year 1. As other assignments grow, time will be documented through time and effort reporting and charged to the appropriate funding source.

Cahaba Medical Care is an equal opportunity employer.