Altarum’s Community Health Practice Area is seeking a Project Coordinator to support multiple projects focused on maternal and child health.
The successful candidate will provide support that includes notetaking for client and team meetings; scheduling and coordinating meetings, webinars, and membership and events; coordinating consultant agreements and travel arrangements; and other project administrative duties. This position requires excellent organizational skills, verbal and written communication, and attention to detail. During your career at Altarum you will work on many projects and your specific tasks and responsibilities will vary across projects, with the potential for career advancement.
Responsibilities
- Provide administrative and coordination support to project teams
- Take notes during project meetings, synthesize key decisions made, summarize action items
- Schedule and coordinate project meetings and training/TA activities and events including annual convenings, workgroups, expert panels, learning communities, and office hours
- Assist in updating project activities and communications in the membership and TA activity tracker to maintaina timely account of project activities across the team
- Coordinate consultant participation in TA and assist in the development of consultant agreements and the coordination of consultant honoraria and travel
- Support state and community engagement and assessment activities
- Assistin the coordination of the project evaluation and reporting
- Provide support as requested for the development of TA packages, reports, memos, tools, toolkits, online learning courses, webinar presentations, and podcasts
- Work collaboratively with Altarum project staff and with other external SMEs and TA providers
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with 1-3 years of project coordination experience
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Experience with coordinating and notetaking for meetings, trainings, and virtual events; scheduling internal and external meetings for project teams; and coordinating consultant agreements and travel arrangements
- Experience coordinating and facilitating virtual meetings; experience with Zoom and Microsoft Teams preferred
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office Applications and ability to utilize SharePoint and other online communication tools
- Excellent critical and analytical thinking, willingness to step into new roles, strong communication skills, team-focused mentality, and a commitment to continuously learning and improving
- Interest and experience with maternal and child health
- Knowledge of approaches for engagement of community members and persons with lived experience, preferred
- Ability to travel and provide Technical Assistance event coordination on-site, as needed
Logistical Requirements
- At this time we will only accept candidates who are presently eligible to work in the United States and will not require sponsorship.
- Our organization requires that all work, for the duration of your employment, must be completed in the continental U.S. unless required by contract.
- If you are local to our offices in Arlington, Silver Spring, Novi, or Portland this role will be hybrid.
- Must be able to work during eastern time unless approved by your manager.
- Employees working remotely must have a dedicated, ergonomically appropriate workspace free from distractions with a mobile device that allows for productive and efficient conduct of business.Must be able to work during eastern time unless otherwise approved by your manager.
- We ask that you be willing to travel approximately 5-7% of the year.
ABOUT ALTARUM:
Altarum is a nonprofit organization focused on improving the health of individuals with fewer financial resources and populations disenfranchised by the health care system. We work primarily on behalf of federal and state governments to design and implement solutions that achieve measurable results. We combine our expertise in public health and health care delivery with technology development and implementation, practice transformation, training and technical assistance, quality improvement, data analytics, and applied research and evaluation. Our innovative solutions and proven processes lead to better value and health for all.
In addition to the meaningful and challenging work, Altarum offers an outstanding benefits program that includes paid time off, tuition reimbursement, 401k (3% employer contribution plus opportunity for gainsharing), a flexible work environment, and much more. We invite you to explore exciting and rewarding career opportunities with us.
Altarum provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
