Food & Benefits Program Manager

Harris County • Houston, TX

23h • Onsite

About The Position

The Food and Benefits Program Manager will provide strategic, operational, and administrative oversight of a comprehensive program designed to improve access to nutritious food and public benefits for community members. The program includes three primary areas of service delivery: food distribution; development and implementation of screening and referral pathways to address food insecurity; and public benefits enrollment and resource navigation services provided through the HCPH Connect team. This position will be responsible for ensuring effective execution of programs and services, maintaining alignment with organizational priorities and strategic goals, monitoring performance against established key performance indicators (KPIs) and objectives, and fostering strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure programs achieve intended outcomes.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Health Administration, Public Health, Business, Social Work or related field.
• At least three (3) years of health care management and supervisory experience with hands-on experience in personnel management, budget planning and fiscal control.
• Valid Texas driver's license.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Knowledge of public health practice, especially as it relates to working with vulnerable or underserved populations.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, and ability to multi-task and adjust priorities as needed.
• Self-directed with a high degree of critical thinking, independent judgment, problem solving ability.
• Ability to analyze and report complex financial information to reach sound conclusions and make practical recommendations.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality when dealing with sensitive information.
• Ability to work well with public and staff members.
• Must use your personal mobile device for our Multifactor Authentication process.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with grant management.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational and administrative oversight of the Food and Benefits Program, ensuring the effective planning, implementation, coordination, and execution of food distribution and public benefits enrollment initiatives in alignment with organizational priorities and program requirements.
• Oversee and monitor program performance and service delivery across food distribution and public benefits enrollment services provided through the HCPH Connect team; Maintains documentation of program activities and outcomes and provides accurate and timely reporting of each programs status and performance; Maintains a process for program evaluation and improvement.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to establish and maintain strategic alignment across programs.
• Convenes appropriate food and nutrition community partners and stakeholders to develop and implement streamlined screening and referral pathways to address food insecurity within Harris County.
• Ensure program data is accurately and confidentially obtained, tracked, and compiled as well as easy to reproduce and present; Develops well-crafted reports and presentations as needed.
• Assist with budget preparation and monitoring of financial performance to ensure programs are meeting or exceeding budgetary commitment and expectations.
• Partner with Finance and program leadership to ensure resources are appropriately allocated and managed.
• Monitor grant performance, coordinates financial and grants management activities, distributing information for grant programs, grant award analysis and reconciliations, and other related duties as needed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager