Senior Program Manager Jobs

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 $1.9 billion and launched more than 1,300 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 programs in the United States and in more than 90 countries last year. Visit www.cdcfoundation.org for more information.

The CDC Foundation is working with CDC and state and local authorities to provide surge staff to support surveillance, prevention, and response activities within the Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) program. The CDC Foundation seeks candidates for Senior Program Manager positions to support the implementation of the request for application process to jurisdictions to identify staffing needs; strategic thinking around meeting the jurisdictions’ needs in a timely manner through expedited hiring and supervising the Program Managers and managing project activities. The Senior Program Manager will report to the Staffing Team Lead, managing a team of direct reports, and be responsible for the day-to-day management of the project.

Job Highlights

• Position End Date: 7/31/2024
• Position Title: Senior Program Manager
• Location: This position is fully remote
• Salary: $105,000 plus benefits

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to work well independently and supervising a team
• 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
• Master’s degree in related field
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, with strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work on weekends, after hours is required
• 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 in program evaluation, including logic model development
• Specialized knowledge of overdose prevention, surveillance, and response activities
• Experience working collaboratively with diverse stakeholders and engaging in strategic partnerships, demonstrating and prioritizing customer service and servant leadership
• Ability to travel domestically as required
• Excellent judgment and decision making, with strong analytical skills; business intuition and business acumen
• Ability to handle a variety of constituencies, manage multiple tasks simultaneously and thrive in a complex environment while balancing multiple competing priorities

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoots escalated issues related to staffing and jurisdictional needs
• 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
• Works with internal partners 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
• 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
• Formulates program-related goals, objectives, operating policies, strategic plans, guidelines, governance, standards, and priorities to ensure consistency with departmental standard operating procedures
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor to include working flexible hours, evenings, staggered shifts, rotating schedules, holidays, weekends, and in emergency situations
• Operates under the intense deadline pressures and inherent changeability of an emergency response
• Creates strategies for best approaches managing projects with a health equity focus
• 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
• Manages significant matters such as program development, program budgeting, and auditing/evaluating program impact and performance
• Manages a dynamic team and an additional 85 indirect field employees across the nation
• Prepares, negotiates, and monitors program-related contracts, agreements, and amendments

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.

We comply with all applicable laws including E.O. 11246 and the Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 governing employment practices and do not discriminate on the basis of any unlawful criteria in accordance with 41 C.F.R.

• 60-300.5(a)(12) and 60-741.5(a)(7). As a federal government contractor, we take affirmative action on behalf of protected veterans

The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment.

Relocation expenses are not included.