Career Opportunities

Under the direction of the Tobacco Control Initiative (TCI) Program Director the incumbent will assist in establishing and maintaining cooperative agreements with public/private partnership hospital subcontractors, managing the provision of applied research project internally, setting the overall vision, mission, goals, objectives and strategies to establish, measuring and ensuring programmatic success, representing the program director at state and local level meetings and providing direct programmatic and administrative supervision, assist in maintaining policies and procedures related to staff and the program, provide direction to TCI field staff and students, assist with interpreting federal regulatory rules and guidelines as they relate to tobacco use and dependence treatment and assist the program director with collaborating the Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco Free Living.

Bachelor’s degree and 2 additional years of experience can substitute a master’s degree

Please provide a cover letter in addition to your CV or resume with your application.

LSU Health New Orleans is committed to leveraging diversity as an educational resource and an institutional core value. We seek candidates who will contribute to a climate where students, faculty, and staff of all identities and backgrounds have equitable access and success opportunities. As an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer, we welcome all to apply without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

The Louisiana Tobacco Control Initiative (LA-TCI) housed within the LSU Health – New Orleans School of Public Health Behavioral and Community Health Sciences Program, promotes a multi-level, translational and transdisciplinary approach to smoking cessation services and research. Grounded by the US PHS Clinical Practice Guideline for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, the LA-TCI employs the aforementioned approach at the recommended system, clinic, and patient levels of healthcare. Our goal is to reduce the burden of tobacco use in state health care systems and community health centers by 1) identifying all tobacco users at partner sites; 2) identifying appropriate and acceptable evidence-based interventions for tobacco users; 3) cost effectively providing those interventions to tobacco users, when possible; 4) continuously evaluating the initiative for quality improvement; and 5) conducting research to improve population health outcomes.