Senior Program Officer

Duties and 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

Qualifications and Necessary Skills

• 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 with direct experience in tobacco control, injury prevention and/or collaboration with state health departments strongly preferred.
• Experience with enterprise resource planning systems and software packages used to manage day-to-day business activities such as program management and budgeting strongly preferred.
• 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

About the CDC Foundation

• The CDC Foundation helps CDC save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the go-to nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC’s critical health protection mission. The CDC Foundation manages hundreds of programs each year impacting a variety of health threats from chronic disease conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer, to infectious diseases like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, including COVID-19 and Ebola. Visit www.cdcfoundation.org for more information.