Remote Project Manager

Summary

Join our team as a Project Manager to co-lead a strategic project in the non-infectious disease programs department, collaborating with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Bloomberg Philanthropies, donors, and other internal and external partners. The ideal candidate will bring expertise in managing complex public health projects, experience working with local or county government agencies, and knowledge of data modernization and overdose mortality data.

Requirements

• Master's degree in public health, public or healthcare administration or other related field from an accredited college or university
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in project management with experience managing projects that involve multiple entities working collaboratively on a joint project/initiative in their local jurisdiction
• Experience working with medical examiner/coroner offices strongly preferred
• Experience facilitating learning collaboratives or communities of practice for practitioners from different organizations/sectors that have different roles and levels of knowledge/experience
• Demonstrated experience across all phases of project management, including initiation, planning, execution, performance monitoring, and project close-out
• Experience with resource planning/project management systems used to manage day-to-day activities such as project plans, budgets, and timelines
• Superior organizational skills and attention to detail. Ability to meet deadlines and adapt to changing priorities
• Knowledge and skills needed to be effective in the public-private partnership, project, donor, and stakeholder environments
• Understanding of electronic data use within public health, including the advantages and challenges associated with common data sources, systems, and work processes a plus
• Ability to represent the CDC Foundation and its partners, leading discussions and negotiations concerning project planning, implementation and evaluation
• Excellent written communication skills with experience preparing, writing, and editing complex documents such as reports to donors and briefing documents for the CDC and other audiences
• Creativity, problem-solving, demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate with others
• Ability to communicate verbally in a clear, positive manner with internal teams, external partners, and non-technical audiences, as appropriate
• Ability to engage with, listen to and learn from a broad range of people and organizations

Responsibilities

• Manages initiative(s) focused on medicolegal death investigation (MDI) data modernization
• Provide grant management and develop project scopes of work, oversee workplan implementation and procure final deliverables and reports from funded sites
• Work collaboratively with CDC and CDC Foundation staff to design and manage the MDI DMI projects. This may include working with CDC Foundation field employees
• Leverage prior experience working in or with local/county government agencies at the state, local, or national level to manage the day-to-day activities for the project
• May be required to concurrently manage more than one time-bound project to synergize work around a specific subject, practice area, and/or set of partners
• Formulate and/or implement project-related goals, objectives, strategies and priorities to ensure consistency with organization, department, and division standard operating procedures
• Build partnerships with national and regional organizations, provides leadership that ensures impactful, efficient, and effective project implementation
• Promote and increase visibility of MDI Connect at various national and regional conferences/meetings; support MDI offices at various stages of readiness and capacity
• Responsible for project planning, implementation, documentation, performance and impact monitoring, reporting, contracting, budgeting and close out
• Oversee the work of subcontractors and consultants and ensure activities and deliverables adhere to the timeline and meet or exceed expectations
• Design and facilitate program implementation, strategic and operational meetings to advance project goals and represents the CDC Foundation at external meetings
• Serves as project liaison for and between internal and external partners to ensure tasks are clear, aligned and coordinated across all parties. External partners may include MDI offices, public health, data sharing partners and information technology vendors
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and be self-directed in a hybrid/remote work environment
• Travels as needed to represent the designated project and the CDC Foundation (15-20 percent annually). In-person team meetings may occur in Washington, D.C.; Atlanta, GA or other locations TBD
• Participates in and/or leads special projects and other duties as assigned