Seeking an experienced Program Associate within the public health industry for a contract assignment with our client in Washington, DC. This role is hybrid, onsite 2 days a week.
Responsibilities:
Provides comprehensive meeting and project management support for Strategy-led activities, workgroups, and special projects including agenda development, creating slides or other visual documents, staffing meetings, capturing notes, tracking action items, and providing key progress updates throughout the timeline.
Performs research and analyses for special projects (e.g., independently researching, compiling and consolidating information into memos, background briefs and other briefing materials to inform special projects or ongoing initiatives).
Supports new projects or initiatives led by Strategy, including strategic initiatives, leadership-level projects
Coordinates and monitors project timelines and associated deliverables.
Participates in long and short-term program development, planning, implementation, and coordination of workgroup activities, particularly for new or special projects.
Required Skills:
Excellent project management skills, including superb organizational skills. Keen attention to detail.
Demonstrated ability to think independently, to be proactive and responsive, to be flexible and to juggle multiple, competing priorities, and to work with minimal supervision.
Ability to adapt quickly to changing and competing priorities and complex tasks. Tolerant of ambiguity.
Ability to facilitate meetings and events, including internal and external.
Proficiency in managing up and keeping leadership on track regarding key timelines and/or deliverables, as needed.
Collaborative team player orientation with the ability to develop and maintain cooperative relationships with colleagues and other stakeholders.
Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills; collegial, energetic, able to develop productive relationships with colleagues across consultants, external stakeholders, and others.
High level of maturity and professionalism; must interact effectively with staff at all levels and external contacts.
Strong work ethic with the highest personal and professional integrity, sense of accountability and good judgment.
Excellent editing, oral and written communications skills with demonstrated success communicating in both written and verbal format on complex issues relating to internal and external projects.
Ability to independently research and synthesize research and analyses into a variety of briefing materials to support leadership decision-making.
Personal motivation to support mission and goals; work independently and in teams to think imaginatively about opportunities; to create and respond to novel and innovative approaches to addressing an issue; to inspire others to work towards achieving team goals.
Advanced experience in MS Office Suite, especially Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint. Proficient in Visio, project management and dashboard tools.