Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Team (MMMRT) Program Manager

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POSITION TITLE:  Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Team (MMMRT) Program Manager

LOCATION: Hybrid – Massachusetts (Boston)

POSITION END DATE: 06/30/2025

SALARY:  up to $105,000 (plus benefits)

The CDC Foundation seeks a Program Manager to provide program support and coordination for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Team (MMMRT). 

•Master's degree in public health, communication, epidemiology, or another related field

•5-7 years of public health experience at the national, state, or local level.

•Professional experience in public health in a program management role or experience as management analyst demonstrating increasing levels of responsibility and leadership; philanthropic, nonprofit or government, and/or public health leadership preferred.

•Experience working collaboratively and fostering relationships with diverse collaborators and engaging in strategic partnerships, demonstrating, and prioritizing customer service and cultural humility.

•Ability to handle a variety of collaborators, manage multiple tasks simultaneously, and thrive in a complex environment while balancing multiple competing priorities and data systems.

•Experience in leading program planning, implementation, and continuous quality improvement.

•Outstanding interpersonal and teamwork skills; collegial, energetic, and able to develop productive relationships with colleagues, and internal/external partners, particularly in a hybrid working environment.

•Proficiency in Microsoft Office products including Teams, Forms, Excel, Word, Planner, and PowerPoint.

•Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, and organizational skills.

•Strong written and verbal communication skills.

•Advanced degree in public health, public administration, business, or another related field

•Proven ability use discretion, maintain confidentiality and ethical conduct.

•Experience in maternal child health

•Coordinate with the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, the Division of Pregnancy, Infancy and Early Childhood, the Division of Health Care Safety & Quality, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, and other external and internal partners, as needed, to identify pregnancy-associated deaths;  

•Request, obtain and manage relevant medical, legal, and public records;  

•Ensure appropriate data sharing agreements and memoranda of understanding are in place to facilitate cross-unit efforts;  

•Coordinate and support the MMMRT Medical Record Abstractors to ensure timely record abstraction into the Maternal Mortality Review Information Application (MMRIA);  

•Track the status of cases from identification through completion of Committee review.  

The Program Manager will also play a lead role in supporting the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee (MMMRC).  The MMMRC is a multidisciplinary committee that reviews all cases of pregnancy-associated deaths among residents of the Commonwealth to: 

1.determine pregnancy-relatedness,  

2.assess causes of death,  

3.identify factors that contributed to the death, and  

4.develop recommendations to prevent maternal morbidity and mortality.  

•Prepare all required documents for meetings of the MMMRC, including developing meeting agendas and assigning de-identified, abstracted records to Committee members for review at least two weeks before scheduled meetings;

•Track MMMRC membership and meeting attendance and monitor committee member term limits in accordance with the MMMRC Guidance for Committee Membership;

•Plan and facilitate weekly meetings of the DPH MMMRT and develop, update and revise, as needed, standard operating procedures for the MMMRT.  

•Oversee the development and dissemination of grant reports, data briefs, white papers, infographics, and presentations (in collaboration with MMMRT epidemiologists) to share MMMRC findings and recommendations with partners and community representatives who can translate these findings into clinical and policy interventions to prevent maternal morbidity and mortality;

•Attend required CDC webinars, CDC coordinator office hours, and national meetings to provide additional support and information as appropriate;   

•Participate in grant writing and reporting;  

•Maintain and update the MMMRT web page on mass.gov in collaboration with the BFHN Communications Manager;  

•Maintain cordial working relationships with MMMRT staff and MMMRC members. 

This role is involved in a dynamic public health program. As such, roles and responsibilities are subject to change as situations evolve. Roles and responsibilities listed above may be expanded upon or updated to match priorities and needs, once written approval is received by both the CDC Foundation and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in order to best support the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in their public health programming.

This position is currently a hybrid position. CDC Foundation retains the right to make adjustments to this as required. 

 

The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment. 

 

Relocation expenses are not included.