OD2A Project Manager

Position Highlights

Position Title: Project Manager

Location: This position is hybrid to Atlanta

Position End Date: 09/29/2027

Salary: $103,000 plus benefits

Overview

The CDC Foundation is working with CDC and state and local authorities to provide surge staff to support surveillance, prevention, and response activities within the Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) Capacity Building Initiative program. The CDC Foundation seeks candidates for Project Manager positions to support the implementation of the request for application process to jurisdictions to identify staffing needs; strategic thinking around meeting the jurisdictions’ needs in a timely manner through expedited hiring and supervising and managing project activities. The Project Manager will report to the Senior Portfolio Manager, managing a team of direct reports, and be responsible for the day-to-day management of the project.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree in related field
• Must have experience equivalent to that of a public health official with 5+ years of experience preferred at the national, state or local level
• Specialized knowledge of overdose prevention, surveillance, and response activities
• Professional experience in public health in a program management role or, demonstrating increasing levels of responsibility and leadership. Philanthropic, nonprofit or government and/or public health leadership preferred
• Experience working collaboratively with diverse stakeholders and engaging in strategic partnerships, demonstrating and prioritizing customer service and servant leadership
• Demonstrated ability to work well independently and supervising a team
• Ability to handle a variety of constituencies, manage multiple tasks simultaneously and thrive in a complex environment while balancing multiple competing priorities
• Excellent judgment and decision making, with strong analytical skills; business intuition and business acumen
• Experience in program evaluation, including logic model development
• Ability to travel domestically as required
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, with strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to travel domestically is required

Responsibilities

• Work with staff to develop and implement/enhance systems and processes to ensure consistent, high-quality project management
• Fosters and maintains peer-to-peer relationships with subject matter experts, donors, partners, and other stakeholders aimed at efficient and effective program implementation
• Manage up to 40 field employees across the nation
• Serves as programmatic liaison for and between internal and external stakeholders.
• Manages significant matters such as program development, program budgeting, and auditing/evaluating program impact and performance
• Formulates program-related goals, objectives, operating policies, strategic plans, guidelines, governance, standards, and priorities to ensure consistency with departmental standard operating procedures
• Contributes to resource mobilization efforts for the assigned programs in consultation and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
• Prepares, finalizes, and submits narrative and financial reports or updates to donors in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
• Prepares, negotiates, and monitors program-related contracts and agreements.
• Serves as the contact person in the absence of team members, in this capacity
• Represents the CDC Foundation at technical, policy, and strategic planning meetings with internal and external stakeholders and evaluate strategies that meet public health missions and goals
• Keep abreast of and develop specialized knowledge of significant overdose prevention and response efforts across the nation and the OD2A program
• Support projects that enhance public health/public safety collaborations through the identification of appropriate local partners, qualitative and quantitative data collection, and dissemination of project findings

Special Notes

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 to best support the CDC Foundation in their public health programming.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status, and all other characteristics protected by law.

We comply with all applicable laws including E.O. 11246 and the Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 governing employment practices and do not discriminate on the basis of any unlawful criteria in accordance with 41 C.F.R. §§ 60-300.5(a)(12) and 60-741.5(a)(7). As a federal government contractor, we take affirmative action on behalf of protected veterans.

The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment.

Relocation expenses are not included.

About the CDC Foundation

The CDC Foundation is an independent nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners to support the public health system, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in preventing and responding to threats to health. In this role, we are focused on one priority: building catalytic, flexible and impactful partnerships—with corporations, philanthropies, individuals and organizations—to help improve the health and lives of people in all communities, everywhere. Visit www.cdcfoundation.org for more information.