Project Manager
CDC Foundation
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Atlanta • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $100,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Work with staff to develop and implement/enhance systems and processes to ensure consistent, high-quality project management
- Fosters and maintains peer-to-peer relationships with subject matter experts, donors, partners, and other stakeholders aimed at efficient and effective program implementation
- Manage up to 60 field employees across the nation
- Serves as programmatic liaison for and between internal and external stakeholders.
- Manages significant matters such as program development, program budgeting, and auditing/evaluating program impact and performance
- Formulates program-related goals, objectives, operating policies, strategic plans, guidelines, governance, standards, and priorities to ensure consistency with departmental standard operating procedures
- Contributes to resource mobilization efforts for the assigned programs in consultation and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
- Prepares, finalizes, and submits narrative and financial reports or updates to donors in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
- Prepares, negotiates, and monitors program-related contracts and agreements.
- Serves as the contact person in the absence of team members, in this capacity
- Represents the CDC Foundation at technical, policy, and strategic planning meetings with internal and external stakeholders and evaluate strategies that meet public health missions and goals
- Keep abreast of and develop specialized knowledge of significant overdose prevention and response efforts across the nation and the OD2A program
- Support projects that enhance public health/public safety collaborations through the identification of appropriate local partners, qualitative and quantitative data collection, and dissemination of project findings
Requirements
- Master’s degree in related field
- Must have experience equivalent to that of a public health official with 5+ years of experience preferred at the national, state or local level
- Specialized knowledge of overdose prevention, surveillance, and response activities
- Professional experience in public health in a project management role or, demonstrating increasing levels of responsibility and leadership. Philanthropic, nonprofit or government and/or public health leadership preferred
- Experience working collaboratively with diverse stakeholders and engaging in strategic partnerships, demonstrating and prioritizing customer service and servant leadership
- Demonstrated ability to work well independently and supervising a team
- Ability to handle a variety of constituencies, manage multiple tasks simultaneously and thrive in a complex environment while balancing multiple competing priorities
- Excellent judgment and decision making, with strong analytical skills; business intuition and business acumen
- Experience in program evaluation, including logic model development
- Ability to travel domestically as required
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, with strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to travel domestically is required.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
program managementprogram developmentprogram budgetingprogram evaluationlogic model developmentdata collectionnarrative reportingfinancial reportingcontract negotiationresource mobilization
Soft skills
leadershipcustomer serviceservant leadershipanalytical skillsdecision makingindependent workteam supervisionrelationship buildingstrategic partnershipmulti-tasking
Certifications
Master’s degree in related field