Senior Program Manager
Company: American Public Health Association
Location: Washington
Posted on: October 17, 2024
Job Description:
The Senior Program Manager assists the division leadership in
leading intersectional engagement opportunities between APA
members, health care, community and other advocacy stakeholders.
The incumbent works to develop and foster lasting relationships
with diverse communities and cultivate and manage relationships
with multiple stakeholders. The incumbent responsibilities align
with APA's fourth strategic initiative of supporting and increasing
diversity within APA; serving the needs of evolving, diverse,
underrepresented and underserved patient populations; and working
to end disparities in mental health care. DUTIES &
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Collaborates with internal and external constituents to create
and execute intersectional programs and events that promote mental
health equity.
- Works with DDHE leadership to develop a community partners
network and capacity building strategy.
- Explores within APA innovative ways to partner with different
medical and lay organizations to broaden the collective impact of
addressing mental healthcare disparities.
- Identifies stakeholders, partners, and participants for
recruitment to specific programs and events.
- Creates and tracks deliverables that are both measurable and
sustainable.
- Disseminates as appropriate APA educational resources through
programming.
- Collects data that can inform the development of additional APA
resources to best serve our members and APA areas.
- Develops and executes program and event marketing plans in
partnership with Marketing and Communications.
- Coordinates and executes the logistics of each program and
event.
- Generates and provides health equity related stories to surface
equity-related news with Communications, Psychiatry.org website,
Psychiatric News, etc.
- Performs need analysis to identify knowledge gap within APA
resources related to diversity and health equity.
- Identifies APA members who are subject-matter experts in
diversity and health equity-related topics.
- Monitors development and progress of resources.
- Reviews and edits the contents of resources.
- Develops advertising strategy to promote resources to APA
membership.
- Facilitates post-production analytics of educational resources
(working with Marketing and Communications).
- Contributes to the creation, production and oversee programs
and products of the APA's DDHE.
- Contributes to and prepares presentations, issues briefs,
position statements and other written materials pertinent to
diversity and health equity.
- Serves as a staff liaison for APA-assigned components as
needed.
- Coordinates off-site and onsite meetings.
- Helps with monitoring progress of respective programs, as
assigned.
- Under the direction of the Managing Director, monitors
expenditure of respective programs.
- Partakes in periodic evaluations (e.g., mid-year and year-end
evaluations) of programs to report outcomes.
- Reviews current literature and serves as a resource on updated
research or emerging issues which advance diversity, health equity,
and social determinants of mental health.
- Performs other duties as assigned.COMPETENCIESThe Senior
Program Manager's performance on these duties and responsibilities
will be measured using the following competencies:SCOPE &
IMPACT
- Responsible for the daily activities of all aspects of a
portfolio of projects.
- Requires thorough knowledge of a specialized skill that is
gained through a combination of academic training and
experience.
- Success is frequently measured by metrics associated with
completing a functional set of department or program projects or
initiatives and demonstrating defined organizational work
environment behavior.COMPLEXITY, PROBLEM SOLVING &
DECISION-MAKING
- Guidelines allow more latitude because they may be less
specific.
- The selection and interpretation of guidelines involves
choosing from alternatives where all are correct, but one is better
than another depending on the given circumstances.
- May contribute to budgetary goals through proper administration
of projects/activities.
- Identifies novel and complex problems and issues. Designs and
implements solutions with management approval. Designs are likely
to include alternatives.
- Recognizes complex problems and escalates them to the
appropriate level.RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT & AUTHORITY
- Relationships span levels internally and externally and center
on partnering with clients/customers and organizational
partners.
- Uses diplomatic skills to obtain trust and cooperation in order
to resolve issues and/or non-routine matters, manage projects, or
achieve appropriate solutions.
- Likely to represent the organization as a liaison to APA
governance and other external coalitions and audiences with
feedback provided to management.ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE
- Demonstrates a general knowledge of DDHE's processes,
relationships, and responsibilities as well as the interactions
within the organization.REQUIRED SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, AND
QUALIFICATIONS
- BA/BS and at least 5-7 years of relevant experience and/or
sufficient relevant work experience; master's degree in public
health, population science, health equity, population health, or
related field preferred.
- Three to five years of experience in working on the development
of online educational materials in medicine/health or an equivalent
combination of education and experience.
- Superb administrative skills, leadership, and organizational
abilities including management of diverse and overlapping projects
and timelines.
- Skill developing and editing various kinds of reports.
- Program management experience, preferably in an academic,
membership, or association setting.
- Well-developed meeting planning skills.
- Excellent cultural humility skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working with multiple, diverse stakeholders.
- Excellent writing skills, organization, and prioritization
skills.
- Excellent proficiency with MS Office applications and the
Internet.
- Experience with marketing and promoting events and
services.EOE, including disability/vetsSalary-$86,700-$101,800
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