Senior Project Lead, Montgomery, Alabama, United States 37 views

Organization: Partners In Health (PIH)
Country: United States
Field location: Montgomery, Alabama
Office: PIH in Montgomery, Alabama

Description
Position Title: Senior Project Lead, Alabama Reports to: Southeast Regional Director, PIH-US Location: Montgomery, Alabama or surrounding areas. Travel required to meet with partners in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma in person 2-4 times per month. Position Type: Full-time, some evenings and weekends
About Partners In Health United States (PIH-US) Partners In Health United States (PIH-US) is the U.S. arm of Partners In Health, a nonprofit, social justice organization. We envision a future in which health is a human right, not a privilege in the United States. We seek the transformation of health and social systems so that structures of oppression no longer determine the quality or length of a person’s life.
PIH-US accompanies visionary public health and community partners working to build strong, integrated, community-led health systems across the US. PIH-US currently supports local health departments, health providers, elected officials, and community leaders to define ambitious health and racial equity agendas, and provides technical advising and operational support to deliver on those commitments. Our current focus communities include: Montgomery, Alabama; Chicago, Illinois; Immokalee, Florida; Newark, New Jersey; New Bedford, Massachusetts; North Carolina; and Pima County, Arizona. We capture learnings from across this network to mobilize resources, advance policy change, and lay the groundwork for stronger community health systems nationally.
Position Overview The Senior Project Lead (SPL) will be responsible for leading PIH’s technical advising and implementation accompaniment efforts in Montgomery, Alabama and surrounding areas. The SPL will drive strategy and set organizational and programmatic goals for PIH-US’s work in Alabama. The SPL will build and manage PIH’s anchor partnerships in Alabama, serving as the primary liaison with PIH’s partners (e.g. Mayor’s Office and community-based organizations) in the development of effective equitable public health responses to COVID-19 and building community health capacity, including community health worker programs, vaccine outreach efforts, and other associated areas of work. In addition, the SPL will collaborate with PIH-US colleagues across the United States, to bring learnings and insights from Alabama to national advocacy and communications initiatives The SPL will sit on PIH-US’s senior management team.
Responsibilities
Develop and implement PIH-US’s technical advising support for our partners in Alabama on community health workforce and health systems strengthening, continually identifying new opportunities, maintaining strong working relationships, and managing communication channels to ensure continuity and transparency across stakeholders.
Supervise a program team of 1-3 Project Managers throughout all project phases, to include:
Manage recruitment and onboarding of project staff as needed
Oversee the development of materials related to training of project staff and support training implementation.
Oversee project management plan and approve project deliverables to support implementation.
Mentor and develop staff using a supportive and collaborative approach; promote a culture of high performance and continuous improvement that values learning and a commitment to quality and equity
Oversee the development and implementation of a community health worker (CHW) program in collaboration with Alabama Department of Health and community partners.
Provide strategic leadership, administrative and managerial oversight, and monitoring of ongoing workstreams, including community-based workforce development and management; community needs assessments; communications & community engagement; response governance and coordination.
Serve as spokesperson for PIH-US in both internal and external exchanges, including collaborating with and providing external reporting to funders and other external partners, and contributing learnings and insights.
Collaborate with Southeast Regional Director and Director of Partnerships to support fundraising efforts for PIH-US’s work in Alabama, including assessing funding opportunities, contributing to proposal writing and budget development, and building relationships with regional and local funders
Contribute to site project budget management, tracking Alabama-specific grants and spending
Evaluate project performance using appropriate KPIs and project metrics, in collaboration with PIH-US M&E team
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in relevant fields related to public health desirable
8-10 years of experience in public health program development and implementation, preferably with an emphasis on community health
Experience supervising teams in complex, decentralized environments
Proven experience crafting and executing strategy for innovative initiatives
Demonstrated experience in effectively managing and prioritizing a large number of projects simultaneously in a complex and fast-paced organization and setting including budget management and grant reporting
Demonstrated commitment to social justice and health equity
Excellent strategic thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills
Exemplary interpersonal skills: ability to collaborate effectively with staff and leadership across a diverse range of departments and organizations
Experience with community-based care delivery, community organizing, or high-level health program management preferred, specifically managing projects with multiple stakeholders
Familiarity with community health worker programs and/or workforce development strongly preferred
Familiarity with U.S. public health systems and understanding of working in the public sector strongly preferred
Organizational Profile Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities around the world. PIH focuses on those who would not otherwise have access to quality health care. PIH partners with the world’s leading academic institutions to create rigorous evidence that shapes more sound and all-inclusive global health policies. PIH also supports local governments’ efforts to build capacity and strengthen national health systems.
As of today, PIH runs programs in 11 countries (Haiti, Peru, Rwanda, Mexico, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Malawi, Lesotho, Russia, Kazakhstan, Navajo Nation), where it provides direct care to millions of patients, through public facilities and community engagement.
Partners In Health (PIH) is committed to the fundamental principle of equal opportunity and equal treatment for every prospective and current employee. It is the policy of PIH not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, religion, creed, disability, sex and gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law. PIH works in and with a number of governments in and outside the U.S., and to the extent applicable, this statement is intended to incorporate the prohibition of any unlawful discrimination covered by applicable laws in such countries, states and municipalities.
Partners In Health participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.