Program Officer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Master's Degree in a related field.
• Six years related program management experience in public health or medicine.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Nice To Haves

• Leadership in technical area.
• Management expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead, oversee or act as technical expert for Attendance as a Vital Sign (AVS) independently.
• Envision, design, and initiate new program activities according to the larger program goals.
• Produce and edit documents, work plans, reports, and presentations.
• Lead budget development and resource allocation.
• Oversee staffing, roles, and level of effort to meet program goals.
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration between program, finance, and administrative staff to ensure team functioning to meet program goals.
• Facilitate and model frequent, open, ongoing communication with program team members in all locations (remotely, onsite, and offsite domestically).
• Lead engagement with internal and external partners.
• Ensure adherence to JHU and donor rules, regulations, and policies.
• Lead process of using data to inform strategies, work plans, and program direction.
• Put in place tools, processes, and structures to ensure excellence in programs, products, and deliverables to meet program goals.
• Design and manage effective team structure to meet AVS goals.
• Supervise, coach, and mentor staff independently.
• Orient and train new staff members.
• Conduct regular (at least quarterly) check-ins and annual performance reviews with all supervisees.
• Identify and recommend appropriate professional development opportunities for supervisees.
• Ensure effective coaching, mentoring, and supervision of all staff on your team.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to promote continued growth and improvement among supervisees and other staff.
• Oversee and ensure the quality of work produced by staff or team. Develop processes, tools, and routines that ensure the quality of work.
• This position will have official supervisory duties; s/he will engage in coaching and mentoring of staff.
• Operate in compliance with all JHU supervisory policies.
• Oversee high-level strategy design and implementation independently.
• Lead and build staff capacity in technical work, including strategies, toolkits, communication materials, scripts, job aides, needs assessments, etc.
• Generate and envision new activities, ideas, frameworks, and strategies that further AVS goals.
• Use, develop, and model tools, processes, best practices, and colleague review to ensure all products and documents are of the highest quality possible.
• Provide others with information about the quality of work. This includes raising concerns about errors, omissions, and poor-quality products to the staff member responsible for that work, and requesting revision of work that is not high quality.
• In collaboration with AVS faculty, strategically plan for research, monitoring, and evaluation activities.
• Supervise/oversee the technical assistance and coaching of staff independently.
• Lead district-level technical assistance, including trainings, workshops, and program support, independently.
• Demonstrate technical expertise in relevant technical areas (i.e. SIS, evidence-based practices in school attendance, health areas, etc.) and build capacity in others.
• Demonstrate high-level technical communication, including writing reports, creating and giving presentations, and facilitating trainings or group discussions.
• Ensure excellence in programs, products, and deliverables to meet program goals.
• Initiate and lead center-wide initiatives independently.
• Lead proposal development (technical, budget, coordination) independently.
• Lead strategic partnership development independently.
• Lead donor cultivation independently.
• Represent JHU at relevant external meetings and events.
• Professionally engage and collaborate with other programs across JHU.
• Recognize and address factors that might strategically impact AVS, and lead the implementation of solutions.
• Proactively seek opportunities to expand leadership and management skills.
• Complete at least two JHU training courses related to job duties per year. For supervisors, this should include completing HR’s recommended core courses in the JHU Supervisory Training Program within two years of taking on official supervisory duties.
• Request or initiate quarterly check-in meetings with supervisor to assess performance, strengths and areas for improvement in your current position, and establish professional goals.
• Identify opportunities for bringing new skills into AVS, including attending JHU courses and seminars, conferences, other external trainings etc.
• Other duties may be assigned.