Area Coordinator (Nationwide)

Position description

The CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations, and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the go-to nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC’s critical health protection mission. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has raised over $1 billion and launched more than 1,000 programs impacting a variety of health threats from chronic disease conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer, to infectious diseases like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, including COVID-19 and Ebola. The CDC Foundation managed hundreds of CDC-led programs in the United States and in more than 140 countries last year. Learn more at www.cdcfoundation.org.

The CDC Foundation seeks candidates for Area Coordinator positions to support various federally funded surge staffing initiatives. The Area Coordinator will report to the Senior Project Director and be responsible for the day-to-day management of field staff across 2 or more Health & Human Services Regions, reporting back to CDC and the CDC Foundation on the needs and gaps in working areas

Responsibilities

• Works 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.
• Leads a team of Regional Coordinators across a variety of critical functions including 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.
• Keeps abreast of and develop specialized knowledge of significant COVID-19 related datasets.
• Supports 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.

Qualifications

• Must have experience equivalent to that of a public health official with 8- 10 years of experience preferred at the national, state or local level.
• Professional experience in public health in a program 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 work on weekends, after hours is required
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint , with strong written and verbal communication skills

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status, and all other characteristics protected by law.

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