Blaire Benavides Email & Phone Number

Memphis, Tn, Us

Memphis, Tennessee, United States

• Recruit, lead, develop, and mentor people• Develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for 7 departments with 5-year trends• Explore and implement operational improvements and needs for the institution• Lead campus transportation, property assessment and leasing• Establish offsite workspace and oversee operations to accommodate a workforce of 700• Develop analytical models to forecast future building and other infrastructure needs• Develop and deliver communications strategies for institution-wide communications• Advise senior leadership of operational challenges and possible solutions• Support SVP and departments with budget planning each fiscal year

Memphis, Tennessee, United States

• Lead large-scale multi-year faculty recruitment effort• Create marketing plan and materials, including web-based analytics• Develop diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy & implement recruitment tactics

Greater Memphis Area

• Identify data solutions to inform leaders of key metrics• Assist SVP and departments with budget planning each fiscal year• Lead institutional dashboard development• Use data to forecast future building and parking needs• Perform administrative oversight for multiple departments

Greater Memphis Area

• Provide leadership for development and implementation of global programs/initiatives• Led departmental strategic plan working group• Developed contractual agreement framework• Led departmental fiscal year financial planning process• Manage a global web-based education platform• Responsible for information/data management and site evaluation of international partners • Conduct needs assessments for outreach activities and develop corresponding plans of action

Greater Memphis Area

• Provide leadership for development and implementation of global programs/initiatives• Responsible for information/data management and site evaluation of international partners • Conduct needs assessments for Outreach activities and develop corresponding plans of action

Greater Memphis Area

Department of Psychology• Managed clinical research efforts and coordinated activities of 7 Clinical Research Associates Department of Epidemiology• Coordinated phone follow-up and recruiting efforts for a large (25+) institutional study • Supervised a 15+ telephone survey staff• Coordinated database design for project needs

San Francisco Bay Area

I coordinated efforts for a contract between UCSF and NINDS, in addition to an NIH funded R01 grant. I handled IRB submissions for both studies, administered testing to research participants, translated written tests into Spanish and French, collaborated with database manager to ensure data quality, and implemented a training system for new employees.

M.P.H., Health Policy And Administration

B.S., Neuroscience And Behavioral Biology

Bachelor'S Degree, Neuroscience