Description

Position Title: Project Manager (Pima County, Arizona), PIH United States

Reports to: Senior Project Lead, PIH United States

Location: Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, United States (preferred) - with occasional (~15%) travel to other US cities (e.g. Boston, Massachusetts) for team meetings and retreats

Employment Type: Full-time (may include occasional evenings and weekends)

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 U.S. 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; New Bedford, 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 Project Manager will join a fast paced and dynamic team accompanying partners in Pima County, Arizona to achieve a healthier and more equitable county. The Project Manager, in close collaboration with the Senior Project Lead and other Partners In Health (PIH) team members, will co-lead project management for our technical assistance to Pima County Health Department and community-based organizations (CBOs) across Pima County.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with community-based organizations, governmental partners, Native Nations, and other relevant stakeholders throughout Pima County, Arizona
  • Develop educational materials for a variety of partners, including those focused on outreach to non-English speaking and ESL populations and communities of color
  • Oversee monitoring of project implementation plan and provide administrative support – e.g. managing expenses, preparing grant reports, and maintaining an online repository of all project documents
  • Collaborate with other PIH-US sites to share best practices, identify synergistic programmatic areas to pursue as well as shared research topics of interest and compile and synthesize relevant resources to foster these collaborations
  • Contribute learnings and insights from project site to broader PIH-US resource library and learning collaborative
  • Provide regular reports on program and work progress to PIH leadership team and liaise across other PIH-US sites
  • Evaluate program impact using public health tools, frameworks, and programmatic benchmarks

    Qualifications:

    • Experience working with American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities, community health workers, community-based health programs, or local public health departments
    • Bachelor's Degree plus 3 years work experience or advanced degree plus 2 years work experience in relevant field
    • Prior project management experience in complex, resource-constrained environments
    • Familiarity or experience working with US Healthcare system or community health / global health, public health consulting experience, or experience working in the public sector preferred
    • Demonstrated strong problem solving, analytical and quantitative skills
    • Strong communication and data visualization skills, including delivery of compelling presentations and documents in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
    • Ability to build strong professional relationships with a range of stakeholders
    • Ability to work independently and effectively in dynamic environment
    • Strategically minded, able to think creatively around program objectives and the detailed steps necessary to achieve project goals
      • Exemplary interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate effectively with culturally diverse staff across departments and country.
      • Interest in social justice strongly desirable.

        Organizational Profile

        Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities around the world. PIH focuses on those who would not otherwise have access to quality health care. PIH partners with the world’s leading academic institutions to create rigorous evidence that shapes more sound and all-inclusive global health policies. PIH also supports local governments’ efforts to build capacity and strengthen national health systems.

        As of today, PIH runs programs in 11 countries (Haiti, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Navajo Nation, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, United States), where it provides direct care to millions of patients, through public facilities and community engagement.

        Partners In Health (PIH) is committed to the fundamental principle of equal opportunity and equal treatment for every prospective and current employee. It is the policy of PIH not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, religion, creed, disability, sex and gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law. PIH works in and with a number of governments in and outside the U.S., and to the extent applicable, this statement is intended to incorporate the prohibition of any unlawful discrimination covered by applicable laws in such countries, states and municipalities.

        Partners In Health participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

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