Senior Program Officer

CDC Foundation•Georgia, GA

10h•$90,000 - $105,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Program Officer leads and implements outcome-driven, complex public health programs composed of multiple, time-bound, and interrelated projects. The programs the Senior Program Officer will support include a program to advance maternal and neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa, including Malawi, Nigeria and Tanzania, and a program to build the evidence base to inform drowning prevention strategies in the United States. The Senior Program Officer serves a strategic function, translating insights and experience from individual projects into improved program quality, stronger implementation practices, and broader contributions to public health. This position requires strong partnership development, leadership, and program management skills, combined with an entrepreneurial and mission-driven approach to advancing collaboration across philanthropies, private sector partners, and individuals to protect and improve public health, safety and security.

Requirements

Master’s degree in public health or related field from an accredited college or university required.
Minimum of 10 years of public health and related professional experience required.
Experience with enterprise resource planning systems and software packages used to manage day-to-day business activities such as program management and budgeting.
Knowledge and skills needed to be effective in the public-private partnership, program, donor, and partner environments in the NID context.
Ability to make decisions that accomplish department and project strategic objectives.
Advanced skills in program management, budget management, cross-cultural awareness, communication, influence, negotiation, conflict resolution and creative problem solving.
Experience and proficiency handling public-private partnerships (or functional equivalent collaborations).
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience preparing, writing and editing complex documents such as detailed reports to donors; briefing documents for CDC, donors, and other partners; and peer-reviewed articles.
Strong technical skills including word processing, spreadsheet and database management.
Ability to represent the CDC Foundation and its partners, leading discussions and negotiations concerning program planning, implementation and evaluation.
Outstanding interpersonal and teamwork skills; collegial, energetic and able to develop productive relationships with colleagues, donors, stakeholders and partners.
Sound judgment and maturity, exemplified by consistent professionalism in dealing with individuals at all levels both internally and externally.

Nice To Haves

Direct experience in tobacco control, injury prevention and/or collaboration with state health departments strongly preferred.
Candidates located in the Atlanta area are preferred.

Responsibilities

Leads the coordinated management of multiple, time-bound, unique and related projects to advance excellence in program implementation and public health practice.
Formulates program-related goals, objectives, operating policies, strategic plans, guidelines, governance, standards and priorities to ensure consistency with organization, department and division standard operating procedures.
Builds strong partnerships and provides strategic implementation expertise that ensures impactful, efficient and effective program implementation.
Hires, recruits, supervises, mentors and serves as a technical partner for employees, including up to 10 field staff.
Serves as project liaison for and between internal and external stakeholders.
Manages significant matters such as project implementation, reporting, contracting, technical content, budgeting and evaluating project impact and performance.
Contributes to resource mobilization efforts for the assigned project.
Represents the CDC Foundation at technical, financial, strategic and/or operational meetings focused on the project.
Travels as needed to represent the designated project and the CDC Foundation (up to 20 percent annually).
Participates in and/or leads special projects and other duties as assigned.