Senior Project Manager, Newark

Description

Position Title: Senior Project Manager, Newark NJ

Reports to: Senior Technical Advisor, Newark NJ

Location: United States, Remote (10% travel required)

Position Type: Full time

About PIH-US

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 US. 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 Senior Project Manager will join a growing team dedicated to supporting the Department of Health and Community Wellness (DHCW) along with other community partners in the greater Newark area. The DHCW is responsible for all things related to public health within the city limits, and also operates its own in-house Federally Qualified Health Center – the Mary Eliza Mahoney Health Center – which provides essential primary healthcare services to low-income Newark residents. The PIH Newark team was created in April 2020 to help the DHCW respond to the COVID-19 pandemic through technical advising on contact tracing, testing, vaccine roll-out and other critical response issues. Since then, our work has transitioned to support the DHCW in their efforts to improve primary healthcare and public health for all Newark residents. We now work in the areas of health analytics and informatics; primary healthcare advising; strategy development and resource mobilization.

The Senior Project Manager, in close coordination with the team’s Senior Technical Advisor, will be responsible for the day to day technical operations of PIH’s collaboration with the DHCW and other partners in Newark. This will include supporting the broad range of PIH activities in Newark; liaising directly with DHCW staff and other community partners; managing the team’s Associate; and bringing sharp, rigorous analytical abilities to bear on the challenging primary healthcare problems that we are jointly working to solve.

Responsibilities

Strategy Development and resource mobilization (40%)

• Provide consultation and lead activities in support of the Newark Department of Health and Community Wellness (DHCW) and local community partners in development of a 5-year strategic primary health care transformation plan and compile, synthesize and analyze data on a variety of key health topics (e.g., lead abatement, HIV/AIDS), to inform programmatic recommendations using a variety of reliable data sourcing.
• Provide assistance to DCHW as a co-leader to develop an informatics infrastructure that will facilitate data-informed health and resource mobilization decision making including data tools, key performance indicators and researching replicable model programs or plans for adaptation.
• Direct actions that assist in implementation and building of an informatics system and knowledge base to improve data for decision-making to create an in-house analytics function for public health and primary healthcare, including software procurement/launch and staff hiring/development and technical assistance;

  Lead and guide the Community Health Improvement Plan accompaniment work (40%)

  • Advise, lead, and compliment through collaborative work all efforts related to primary health care expansion and assisting DHCW to architect a city-wide strategic planning process for the health sector and provide instructional guidance on collaborative methodologies for primary care expansion working with DHCW and diverse community partners
  • Perform collaborative tasks that support program design for primary care expansion, across facility-based, mobile, and school-based clinics and other community-based care initiatives, including expanding and sustaining the CHW workforce;
  • Create and manage the process of providing assistance to DHCW and other anchor partners in refining mapping of current primary care and community health services and gaps, including a closer look at current community-based workforce composition and deployment in Newark

    Project management and progress evaluation (10%)

    • Lead a team of PIH staff that work to assist DHCW in the expansion of primary healthcare and CHWs by providing technical assistance, advice, and data analysis to inform decisions related to specific services offered by DHCW including mobile health vans services, school-based clinics, and utilization of the Mary Eliza Mahoney health center further into the community
    • Accompany the DHCW in developing suggested performance measures that are meaningful, movable and measurable in order to maintain momentum and track progress in programs and services.

      Resource Mobilization and Strategy Development (10%)

      • Work with the PIH partnerships team to monitor for public and private sector grant opportunities of relevance and interest to the DHCW and Newark community partners by creating in partnership with DHCW a process of analysis and responding to select opportunities, thereby bringing further county, state and national-level resources into the Newark ecosystem
        • Assist in creating a longer-term financing strategy for more comprehensive sets of primary and community health initiatives for priorities identified by DHCW.

          Qualifications

          • Bachelor's Degree with 7+ years work experience; or advanced degree with 5+ years work experience
          • Experience in management consulting or similar environments;