Project Coordinator, Maternal and Child Health

Altarum Institute • Ann Arbor, MI

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About The Position

The Project Coordinator for Maternal and Child Health at Altarum Institute will support various projects aimed at improving health outcomes for mothers and children. This role involves administrative and coordination tasks, including notetaking, scheduling meetings, and managing consultant agreements. The position requires strong organizational skills and offers opportunities for career advancement within a collaborative environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 1-3 years of project coordination experience.
• Experience with coordinating and notetaking for meetings, trainings, and virtual events; scheduling internal and external meetings for project teams; and coordinating consultant agreements and travel arrangements.
• Experience coordinating and facilitating virtual meetings; experience with Zoom and Microsoft Teams preferred.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Applications and ability to utilize SharePoint and other online communication tools.
• Excellent critical and analytical thinking, willingness to step into new roles, strong communication skills, team-focused mentality, and a commitment to continuously learning and improving.
• Interest and experience with maternal and child health.
• Knowledge of approaches for engagement of community members and persons with lived experience, preferred.
• Ability to travel and provide Technical Assistance event coordination on-site, as needed.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with community engagement strategies.
• Familiarity with public health initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative and coordination support to project teams.
• Take notes during project meetings, synthesize key decisions made, and summarize action items.
• Schedule and coordinate project meetings and training/TA activities and events including annual convenings, workgroups, expert panels, learning communities, and office hours.
• Assist in updating project activities and communications in the membership and TA activity tracker to maintain a timely account of project activities across the team.
• Coordinate consultant participation in TA and assist in the development of consultant agreements and the coordination of consultant honoraria and travel.
• Support state and community engagement and assessment activities.
• Assist in the coordination of the project evaluation and reporting.
• Provide support as requested for the development of TA packages, reports, memos, tools, toolkits, online learning courses, webinar presentations, and podcasts.
• Work collaboratively with Altarum project staff and with other external SMEs and TA providers.

Benefits

• Competitive Medical, Dental and Optical plans
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 8 Company observed holidays plus 3 floating holidays
• Tuition Assistance
• 401K Plan (3% employer contribution plus opportunity for gainsharing)
• Life, AD&D & Disability coverage
• A flexible work environment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: High school or GED