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Description

ICF is a mission-driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving the lives of others and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference; we seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages, embraces, and hires dimensions of difference.

@ ICF Next, we are fearless in finding new ways to solve problems, relentless in making sure it pays off for our clients and committed to making a positive change in the world.

Join our community of mission-driven creatives, communicators, strategists, and technologists to challenge the status quo.

We’re currently hiring for a Research Manager, Health Communications with an focus on physical activity research.

Working at ICF Next means applying a passion for meaningful work with intellectual rigor to help solve the leading issues of our day. Smart, compassionate, innovative, committed, ICF Next employees tackle unprecedented challenges to benefit people, businesses, and governments around the globe. We believe in collaboration, mutual respect, open communication, and opportunity for growth. ICF Next delivers all the strategic communications and marketing services of a top-flight public relations agency, plus the domain expertise and resources of a leading international research and consulting firm. Our strategic health communications and social marketing work tackles some of society’s greatest challenges and drives audiences to make positive attitudinal and behavioral changes.

We are seeking a highly skilled Research Manager to manage a 3-year large-scale systematic literature review on physical activity for a Federal client. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the overall management and coordination of the project, including client interactions, study design, execution, and comprehensive reporting.

The successful candidate will possess strong management skills, with the ability to lead and mentor junior staff members across various research tasks. Additionally, the role requires a collaborative mindset, working seamlessly with multiple ICF teams, the client and scientific advisory board. A successful candidate will also be able to engage in other communication and social marketing research by managing, designing, and executing interviews, focus groups, surveys, environmental scans.

What you will do:

• Manage the design and execution of multiple, concurrent theory-based systematic reviews for a Federal agency.

• Manage up to three direct reports

• Coordinate with Federal clients to plan and execute meetings, workplans, provide updates, and offer solutions to complete the work and ensure that work meets a high standard of quality within budgets and timelines.

• Manage the communication and workplan of a large advisory board of scientists working on physical activity and federal guidelines.

• Develop presentations for various stakeholders providing updates on the progress of the project.

• Lead, design, and implement research projects on communication and social marketing, not limited to interviews/focus groups, environmental scans, surveys, web data analytics.

• Lead reporting and dissemination of research efforts (e.g., via manuscripts, presentations, and technical reports).

• Lead submissions of research packages to an ICF’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) a data protection team, as well as the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

• Support ICF’s thought leadership (e.g., via ICF webinars, ICF media relations, professional association events).

What you will need:

Basic Qualifications

• Doctoral degree in public health, health sciences, psychology, sociology, kinesiology or related field.

• 10+ years of experience conducting research and managing projects in the public health or medical science fields, including developing and maintaining study research plans, timelines, staffing plans, and budgets.

Preferred Qualifications

• The ideal candidate will have demonstrated work experience or training in physical activity science.

Professional skills we are looking for:

• Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present research findings to both academic and non-academic audiences. This includes experience in writing research reports, policy briefs, and making presentations at conferences and public health forums.

• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, including healthcare professionals, policymakers, community organizations, and other stakeholders. Experience in mentoring junior researchers is also valuable.

• Experience with designing research and writing research sections of government proposals and/or grants.

• Experience with translating complex research results into recommendations or strategic plans to inform the development and refinement of programs.

• Ability to prioritize and work on multiple projects under strict deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong attention to detail and collaborative approach.

• Experience managing and providing day to day oversight of individuals or teams.

• Experience developing and monitoring project budgets and schedules.

• Experience pursuing new business or development of business proposals.

Travel Requirements

• Minimal travel will be required for this position (up to 10%).

Location: The ideal candidate will be within a commutable distance to our offices in Rockville, MD or Atlanta, GA and able to work a hybrid schedule. However, we are open to considering fully remote candidates.

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Working at ICF

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Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To request an accommodation please email icfcareercenter@icf.com and we will be happy to assist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

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Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position. The pay range for this position is:

$92,986.00 - $158,076.00

Nationwide Remote Office (US99)