Senior Program Manager

The Public Health Institute (PHI) is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting health, well-being, and quality of life for people throughout California, across the nation and around the world. As one of the largest and most comprehensive public health organizations in the nation, we are at the forefront of research and innovations to improve the efficacy of public health statewide, nationally, and internationally.

PHI was distinguished as one of the top 50 "Best Non-Profit Organizations to Work For" by the Non-Profit Times in a national search.

SUMMARY:

PHI's Build Healthy Places Network program (BHPN) is a national center at the intersection of community development and health. Our mission is to shift the way organizations work across the community development, finance, and health sectors to collectively advance equity and improve health in neighborhoods across the country.

The Senior Program Manager will lead management and coordination of program and project activities for BHPN. This oversight encompasses coordinating communities of practice, writing and managing resource and tool development, and fostering partnerships with national, regional, and local multisector organizations.

Bringing strong expertise in community development, this position will advance BHPN national efforts to build momentum for coordinated systems change and collaboration across the health and community development sectors to more effectively co-invest in neighborhood revitalization that centers community power, and overturns racist systems of disinvestment to create healthier neighborhoods. BHPN cultivates community partnerships, providing technical assistance, developing strategies for partnering with healthcare and other anchor institutions to attract investment. Our work guides national collaboratives to center community voice and create tools to assist institutions taking this path. We lift up anti-displacement strategies; synthesize and communicate innovation; and inform policy change to advance racial equity.

BHPN leads community of practices in community development, healthcare, public health and across sectors to support community-led investments in disinvested communities in both urban and rural settings. We invite participants as co-creators, to explore shared language for equity and deepen our collective narrative for local investment, shifting resources and assets into community control.

This is a remote, regular full-time position. Candidates in the United States are welcome to apply.

Full salary range for this position: $91,910 to $137,348 per year. The typical hiring range for this position is from $91,910 (minimum) to $114,629 (midpoint), based on 100% FTE. The starting salary is determined based on the candidate's knowledge, skills, experience, as well as budget availability.

Travel to conferences and meetings in various U.S. cities will be required periodically.

Employment Type: Full Time

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

Programmatic Alignment and Implementation (45%)
* Oversee BHPN's communities of practice, supporting multisector partnership development, technical assistance approach and delivery, and cultivating and managing consultants. This includes providing thought leadership for Community Innovation for Racial Equity's peer learning cohort, supporting other planned communities of practices, and accompanying development of new tools and resources.
* Write and develop materials for BHPN, including resources, tools from communities of practice, case studies, blogs to support the organization's mission, as needed.
* Manage multiple complex projects simultaneously to ensure timely delivery and quality outcomes.
* Monitor program progress, analyze outcomes and synthesize reports for relevant stakeholders.
* Facilitate cross-fertilization among team members across the organization to enhance impact data collection, analysis, and team process optimization.
* Lead program teams to administer feedback loops to incorporate community voice and participant feedback into programs, tools and resource improvement and implementation.
* Working with the Executive Directors, support the creation of strategic alliances with organizations who can advance BHPN's mission and vision.
* Provide subject matter expertise to BHPN resources, tools, multisector partnerships, community-led investments and other initiatives on ways to embed racial equity and center community ownership into all components of our work.
* Create mechanisms for hearing different perspectives and engaging more deeply with BIPOC-led leaders and organizations, including emerging leaders, to inform our approach, issues of focus, and the type of tools we develop.
* Co-develop strategies that support organization-wide values of inclusion and belonging and approaches that acknowledge power dynamics and embrace accountability when working in collaboration with valued community partners.

Staff Supervision (20%)
* Direct supervision of up to two program managers working across the community of practice projects and field building portfolios to guide successful achievement of program goals and deliverables, their professional development and program leadership and management.
* Work with the program manager(s) to lead a team of expert consultants, supporting BHPN's capacity building support, communications, and tool development.

External Relations and Partnerships (20%)
* Build and sustain strong working relationships with community-based organizations and national partners.
* Represent BHPN by presenting at conferences and meetings and participates in advisory committees that advance health and racial equity through community power and multisector partnerships.

Grants and Contracts (10%)
* Manage budgets and expenses for BHPN's community of practice cohorts and trainings.
* Work with Finance and Operations Manager to support implementation of contracts with consultants, subcontractors, and program partners.
* Ensure BHPN's projects meet contractual obligations to funders, deadlines, and reports.

NON-ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (5%) include the following:

* Develop and implement a fee-for-service model for training and consulting, leveraging BHPN's existing tools and resources.

Perform other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Minimum Qualifications
* 7 years of management and/or planning experience working in the non-profit sector.
* Bachelor's degree in a related field, or substitute with four additional years of relevant experience.

Other Qualifications
* Experience in project management and prioritization: managing multiple projects, timeline development, tracking and deadlines.
* Background in community development and/or multisector collaboratives strongly preferred.
* Excellent in written communication for an array of purposes, including client deliverables, blogs and articles, resource publications, grant proposals and progress reports.
* Experience developing and implementing a fee-for-service model is a plus.
* Strong leadership skills.
* Creative and resourceful.
* Excellent strategic thinker and planner.
* Excellent in verbal communication, including presentations to large groups, meeting facilitation, and individual communication.
* Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse individuals and organizations including the foundation funders, the host organization, product users, vendors, and advocates.
* Strong skills in conceptualization, implementation, and integration of multiple strategies.
* Commitment to continued development of race, equity, diversity, and inclusion competencies.
* Master's degree and at least three years of supervisory experience preferred.

FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT (FLSA) STATUS

This position is classified as exempt based on the job duties. However, based on the FTE, salary level of the employee, or federal/state/local laws, the employee may be classified as nonexempt.

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