Description
Position Title: Project Manager, Montgomery, PIH-US
Reports to: Director, Alabama, PIH-US
Location: Montgomery, Alabama (required, or ability to travel to Montgomery 4-5 days a week; occasional other domestic travel for all-team retreats)
Position Type: Full-time (may include evenings and weekends)
Project Overview
Partners In Health United States (PIH-US) is the U.S. arm of Partners In Health, a nonprofit, social justice organization. We envision a future in which health is a human right, not a privilege in the United States. We seek the transformation of health and social systems so that structures of oppression no longer determine the quality or length of a person’s life.
PIH-US accompanies visionary public health and community partners working to build strong, integrated, community-led health systems across the U.S. PIH-US currently supports local health departments, health providers, elected officials, and community leaders to define clear health and racial equity agendas and provides technical advising and operational support to deliver on those commitments. Our current focus communities include Montgomery, Alabama; Chicago, Illinois; Immokalee, Florida; Newark, New Jersey; Massachusetts; North Carolina; and Pima County, Arizona. We capture learnings from across this network to mobilize resources, advance policy change, and lay the groundwork for stronger community health systems nationally.
Position Overview
The Project Manager will join a fast paced and dynamic team accompanying states, cities, and communities across the U.S. in ramping up more effective and equitable public health responses and health systems strengthening. The Project Manager will join a group of several other managers across six U.S. sites who will jointly be responsible for oversight of PIH-US’ technical assistance work. The Project Manager, in close collaboration with the Project Lead, will lead project management for Montgomery, Alabama and support project implementation on designated workstreams, including but not limited to health equity planning for the City of Montgomery, including the support of a community health improvement plan (CHIP) process. The ideal candidate will be familiar with Montgomery and will be expected to have a strong community engagement background and the ability to work on management and administration of projects from start to finish and work autonomously.
Responsibilities
- Support designated community partners in designing and implementing a health equity project for the City of Montgomery.
- Support workstreams that require the candidate to lead and facilitate community health worker (CHW) trainings and provide strategic oversight and guidance to community health engagement.
- Support the City of Montgomery’s CHIP process, including convening committee members, facilitating stakeholder discussions, and additional CHIP activities.
- Work with Project Lead and Director to prepare analysis and recommendations for Alabama Department of Health, the City of Montgomery, or other community partner(s).
- Compile, synthesize and analyze data to inform the development of assessments, recommendations and other advising and program materials.
- Establish collaborative relationships with the Alabama Department of Health, the City of Montgomery, partner organizations and other relevant stakeholders.
- Track project performance using appropriate key performance indicators and project metrics.
- Coordinate meetings among the project partners and stakeholders.
- Prepare donor reports and other external program reports as needed.
- Contribute learnings and insights from Montgomery site work to broader PIH-US staff.
- Support regular reports on program and work progress to PIH-US leadership team and across other PIH-US teams.
- Perform any other relevant, project-related duties when needed.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree plus 3 years’ work experience in relevant field, or advanced degree plus 2 years’ work experience in relevant field.
- Experience working with community-based organizations, CHWs, community-based health programs, or care resource coordination projects.
- Experience in community health program design and/or implementation preferred.
- Prior experience in public health program training design and delivery a plus.
- Prior project management experience in a complex, fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated strong problem solving, analytical and quantitative skills.
- Strong communication skills, including delivery of compelling presentations and documents in Microsoft PowerPoint and Word.
- Exceptional diplomatic and interpersonal skills and ability to build strong professional relationships with a range of stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently and effectively in high-pressure, fast-paced environment and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Experience working with external partners in an advisory capacity.
- Strategically minded, able to think creatively around program objectives and the detailed steps necessary to achieve these goals.
- Ability to meet project partners on site in Montgomery, Alabama and travel within central Alabama strongly preferred.
- Ability to exhibit a professional, positive attitude, empathy, and strong work ethic.
- Ability to work flexibility in the face of rapidly evolving scope of work and new challenges.
- Sound judgment and ability to handle confidential information with discretion and diplomacy.
- Demonstrated commitment to social justice and health equity.
Organizational Profile
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities around the world. PIH focuses on those who would not otherwise have access to quality health care. PIH partners with the world’s leading academic institutions to create rigorous evidence that shapes more sound and all-inclusive global health policies. PIH also supports local governments’ efforts to build capacity and strengthen national health systems.
As of today, PIH runs programs in 11 countries (Haiti, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Navajo Nation, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, United States), where it provides direct care to millions of patients, through public facilities and community engagement.
Partners In Health (PIH) is committed to the fundamental principle of equal opportunity and equal treatment for every prospective and current employee. It is the policy of PIH not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, religion, creed, disability, sex and gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law.PIH works in and with a number of governments in and outside the U.S., and to the extent applicable, this statement is intended to incorporate the prohibition of any unlawful discrimination covered by applicable laws in such countries, states and municipalities.
Partners In Health participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $60,000 and $75,000/year. The starting salary offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market for the position, job-related knowledge, skills and experience.
Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan with employer match, as well as participate in organization-sponsored medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability insurance, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents. Full time employees will receive 15 days of vacation, 12 sick days, 3 personal days, and 3 volunteer days in addition to paid time off during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, the week of July 4th, and 11 additional holidays annually.