Hybrid Project Manager

at CDC Foundation

• Job title: Project Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $100,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Postgraduate Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Atlanta, United States

About the role

• Project Manager for CDC Foundation managing public health initiatives on overdose prevention. Overseeing project management and strategic partnerships in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• 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.