Cross-Site Mental Health Officer

Description

Position Title: Cross-Site Mental Health Officer

Reports to: Co-Director of Mental Health

Location: Boston, MA or Remote US (25% travel)

Position Type: Full Time

Position Overview

The Partners In Health (PIH) Cross-Site Mental Health Officer will be responsible for program management and implementation, grants and financial management, and administrative and communication aspects of the Cross-Site Mental Health program, and support the Cross-Site Mental Health Collaborative and academic training, curriculum, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) efforts. Time will be spent in collaboration with teams at the U.S. Coordination Site and across all PIH sites. This is a site-facing role requiring support and technical assistance to colleagues in the field and time will be spent with both Care Coordination colleagues, care delivery sites, and external partners.

Specific Responsibilities

Program Management and Implementation (40%)

• Serve as the program manager of the PIH Cross-Site Mental Health program, coordinating Cross-Site team efforts, day-to-day operations, projects, and providing mid-level mental health technical expertise to drive key cross-site program initiatives forward.
• Collaborate on strategic planning, operational documents, and reports for the Cross-Site Mental Health Team and with site teams.
• Update Cross-Site and site work plans (in coordination with sites) annually, reviewing team progress quarterly, coordinating internal activities against work plans, and ensuring all team members are working towards individual and shared priorities that are communicated externally.
• Oversee communications, impact and dissemination in coordination with the Senior Cross-Site Mental Health Coordinator, Impact and Marketing & Communications teams
• Support the Cross-Site Mental Health Collaborative, Quality Improvement collaborative, knowledge sharing and capacity building, ensuring success with the Senior Coordinator and Senior MEL Manager.
• Provide program management support with training, curriculum development, psychiatry education efforts, e-learning initiatives, and academic partnerships across sites.

  Grant and Financial Management (35%)

  • Manage mental health grant funding across sites and discrete budgets for the mental health budget portfolio, including serving as project manager Many Voices Collaborative, budget manager for the Cross-Site portion of the Many Voices Collaborative budget, and budget manager for restricted and unrestricted direct to Boston mental health grants.
  • Collaborate with award management and site teams on the Many Voices Collaborative, existing and new cross-site and site-specific funding processes including proposal development, pre-award, implementation, and managing and reporting.
  • Support development of prospect research opportunities and new grant proposals coordinating with Cross-Site Mental Health leadership and the resource mobilization cluster by providing relevant program information and inputs to concept notes and pitch decks, informed by cross-Site and site priorities.
  • Collaborate with Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Manager to ensure programs, grants, research and evaluations are closely linked, outcomes are documented and disseminated for quality improvement and programmatic use.
  • Serve as a relationship manager to partners and funders as appropriate.

    Administrative and Communication (25%)

    • Supervise the Cross-Site Senior Mental Health Coordinator to ensure administrative needs of mental health teams across sites and Cross-Site Mental Health team are met
    • Manage daily administrative operations, including overseeing team calendar, procuring supplies, supervising interns, overseeing volunteers and collaborators as needed, supporting with HR processes and recruitment, submitting financial and legal documents, coordinating knowledge management, overseeing travel plans and visitors, liaising with OnePIH teams and submitting relevant financial reports.
    • Provide program management support with training, curriculum development, psychiatry education efforts, e-learning initiatives, monitoring evaluation and quality improvement, and academic partnerships across sites.

      Qualifications:

      • Master’s Degree and experience in health care management and administration required (e.g. MPH, MSW, MPA, or a related field).
      • Background in the field of global mental health, experience living or working in resource-limited settings preferred.
      • Strong administrative and program management background, familiarity with grants management, finance, and writing skills, and at least 3-5 years of program coordination experience required.
      • Formal experience with Adobe Creative Cloud, Esri ArcGIS/StoryMaps, Microsoft Excel and/or Power BI is strongly desirable.
      • Proficiency in English required. Fluency/proficiency in Spanish or other languages seen as an asset.
      • Experience and comfortable working and collaborating with and coordinating culturally diverse staff on long term goals and day-to-day activities.
      • Ability to prioritize and take initiative on multiple and complicated tasks while producing high quality outcomes, problem solve within complex systems