Sandra Gollob, MSPH, PMP

Experience

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  Tapestry Health Services

  Feb 2008 - Aug 2008

  Intern/Administrative Assistant

  Coordinated community HIV testing events, resulting in more than 200 people receiving HIV tests for the first time.Counseled clients on HIPPA protections and procedure regarding HIV testing.Educated potential clients and provided agency referrals for family planning, sexually transmitted infection treatment, and drug treatment during community service fairs, pride parades, and street outreach.

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  AED

  Feb 2009 - Jul 2011

  HRSA National Health Service Corps (NHSC) re-branding project: ● Developed inclusion and exclusion criteria for in-depth interview subjects and recruited respondents at various levels (current members, potential members, site administrators, and partner organizations). ● Proposed tracking news stories relevant to NHSC, which became a weekly deliverable; developed approximately 75 weekly briefs on topics including innovative health care access programs, contributors to primary care shortages, and role of mid-level (NP, PA, etc.) providers. ● Conducted media outreach through message development, story pitching, media list generation, and spokesperson screening. ● Coordinated development of promotional materials for loan repayment and scholarship programs HRSA-wide.CDC Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) project: ● Developed daily news briefs on topics relevant to CPPW, including environmental obesity prevention, school lunch programs, physical education, smoke-free housing and cigarette package labeling. ● Co-facilitated media relations training for state health departments. ● Recruited sites for intercept interviews.Developed content and co-facilitated trainings on media relations, health literacy, and pandemic flu preparedness.Supported National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR), one of three projects awarded Secretary’s Pick for HHSinnovates program in 2010. NCCOR is a joint partnership of CDC, NIH, USDA, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Show less Co-facilitated and supported over 40 focus groups, triads, usability tests, and in-depth interviews for VA "Infection: Don't Pass It On" project, NCI smoking cessation project,and CDC pandemic flu planning project.Prepared literature reviews and environmental scans on topics including environmental exposures of veterans, childhood obesity research, and direct-to-consumer genetic testing. Coordinated administration, operations, logistics, and federal reporting for multiple concurrent projects. Procured subcontractors, consultants, travel reimbursements, and other services and supplies. Drafted guidelines and memos regarding new and existing operational policies. Show less

  • Marketing and Communications Associate

    Jul 2010 - Jul 2011

  • IRB Program Associate

    Apr 2010 - Jul 2011

  • Senior Program Assistant, Center for Social Marketing and Behavior Change

    Feb 2009 - Jun 2010
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  National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (now ZERO to THREE)

  Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  Data and Evaluation Intern, text4baby

  Ran multivariate analyses in STATA on more than 65,000 survey responses to determine referral source trends by race, primary language, poverty level, and insurance type. Developed coding schema for over 6,000 unique qualitative responses. Wrote academic report on referral trends and presented high-level findings and recommendations to both research and non-research staff.Analyzed invalid responses to text4baby referral and cancellation surveys to improve clarity and relevance of questions for future questionnaire deployment.Maintained website content and posted graphics for weekly enrollment contest winners.Created multi-media data analysis toolkit for program partners and provided technical assistance on data portal use. Show less

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  Office of Global Affairs, US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

  Sept 2012 - Dec 2012

  Global Health Intern

  Wrote briefs and conducted secondary research on foreign health systems - with a focus on ehealth and health disparities - for staff in the Office of the National IT Coordinator, Office of Minority Health, and Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and EvaluationRepresented the Office of Global Affairs and took minutes at Ministerial visits, scientific conferences, and meetingsIn partnership with Italian Embassy, recruited speakers and participants for 2013 Mental Health Forum Show less

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  JBS International, Inc.

  Dec 2013 - now

  Applies business management principles to the RCORP-TA project, which serves over 350 rural grantees. Leads data management, analysis, and reporting activities. Refines project standard operating procedures and leverages technology to standardize, automate, and streamline project task completion. Researches, develops, and deploys innovative technological solutions to increase project effectiveness and efficiency. Projects staffing needs and plays key role in recruitment, hiring, and onboarding process. Provides strengths-based supervision to project coordination staff ensuring task alignment that matches both staff skill and professional development goals. Show less Managed proposal teams, resulting in over $66 million in new or renewed contracts. Ensured timely submission of high-quality, compliant, and competitive proposals. Collaborated with content leads, writers, reviewers, subcontractors, consultants, and internal business development and contracts staff. Developed, tracked, and enforced production timeline for proposal teams.Identified and mitigated risks to production timeline, proposal quality, and cost competitiveness. Developed contingency plans to combat logistical or resource challenges. As needed, reviewed technical content, wrote proposal sections, recruited consultants and contingent staff, guided staff input for Microsoft Project plans, checked sections for compliance and mediated interpersonal conflict.Participated in continuous quality improvement process to increase proposal win rate, decrease cost of proposal development, and improve overall quality of life for proposal teams. Identified, trained, and mentored new proposal administrators. Developed training-of-trainers on using SharePoint for proposal collaboration. Show less Evaluation: Led evaluation activities for the State TA Project. Conducted over 30 in-depth interviews and analyzed satisfaction surveys from over 100 TAs in 48 states and territories. Using Atlas.ti and Excel, analyzed qualitative and quantitative data trends to measure long-term impacts of TA and develop recommendations for improvement. Developed custom evaluation surveys for virtual and onsite meetings.Technical Assistance: Provided data analysis expertise to TA Planners. Interviewed 5 states on divergent electronic data collection systems and wrote guidance document summarizing findings. Synthesized common elements of core competencies for behavioral health professionals. Analyzed results of state workforce assessment survey to determine areas of unmet need for training and TA. Advised fellow TA Managers on sampling methods, assessment tool design, and scoring criteria.Writing: Wrote 12 system review briefing documents, using analysis from over 1200 unique documents, to describe and critique State substance abuse prevention systems. Document review and internet research focused on substance use trends, needs assessment process, system organization, and program implementation. Meeting Planning: Planned and executed 4 virtual and onsite grantee meetings in 5 months for over 300 total attendees. Meeting topics included health reform, leadership development, and Synar implementation. Oversaw work plan, time line, budget, and coordinated logistics as well as materials and Web site development. Wrote summary meeting reports. Show less

  • Project Manager, Rural Communities Opioid Response Project; Subcontract Project Director, RHN

    Jun 2020 - now

  • Senior Proposal Administrator/Technical Proposal Manager (Process Lead)

    Aug 2016 - Jun 2020

  • Technical Assistance Manager, SAMHSA State Technical Assistance (TA) Project

    Dec 2013 - Jul 2016