The Illinois Public Health Institute (IPHI) is seeking a Program Associate to join the Alliance for Equity team. The Program Associate will work with staff and partners within IPHI?s Center for Community Capacity Development (CCCD) with a primary focus on supporting systems change projects within the Alliance for Health Equity. Work will include coordinating workgroups and work plans; supporting ?health equity in all policies? projects; supporting community-engaged assessments; developing training content; writing and editing reports; qualitative data analysis; coordinating meetings and events; database management; grant writing; and supporting communications initiatives. The Program Associate position is full-time exempt; IPHI?s standard work week is 37.5 hours. The Program Associate reports to the Program Director for the Alliance for Health Equity.
To apply: Complete applications must include a resume, cover letter, and completion of an online questionnaire. Only complete applications will be reviewed. The cover letter should compare your qualifications, experiences and interests to the duties, responsibilities and qualifications for the position. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled. No phone calls, please.
About the Center for Community Capacity Development
The Center for Community Capacity Development (CCCD) provides training, consultation, and strategic planning services to public health system partners to support activities including assessment, action planning, strategic planning, performance management, quality improvement, and implementation and evaluation of evidence-based strategies, policies and systems change.
The Alliance for Health Equity is a collaboration across hospitals, government, and community partners working to improve health equity, wellness, and quality of life across Cook County. In 2015, IPHI partnered with non-profit hospitals and the Chicago and Cook County Departments of Public Health to launch this collaboration of 30+ hospitals collaborating with community partners. Since then, the Alliance has produced three collaborative community health needs assessments (CHNAs) and fostered partnerships and policy and systems change initiatives related to social and structural determinants of health and mental health and substance use disorders.
The Illinois Public Health Institute is dedicated to the principles of equal opportunity and is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Primary Responsibilities:
Project Management
- Provide support for activities and deliverables for ?Health Equity in All Policies? and systems change projects focused on partnership between government and community-based partners.
- Provide administrative and program support to the Alliance for Health Equity?s workgroups and systems change projects.
- Support coordination of community health needs assessment and program planning activities with the Alliance for Health Equity team and partners from healthcare, government, and community-based organizations.
- Coordinate and support program activities such as online and in-person meetings and engagement events to accomplish project goals. This includes scheduling meetings, organizing and managing logistics, communicating with participants, coordinating presenters and facilitators, producing meeting agendas and related materials, and documenting meeting content and action steps.
- Maintain current program records and contact records through IPHI?s Salesforce system and other project tracking.
- Develop working knowledge of relevant project grants, budgets, workplans, deliverables, reporting requirements and associated timelines. Support program manager and/or program director with grants and contracts management.
Strategy, Planning, and Program Development
- Support quantitative and qualitative data analysis, data visualization, evaluation activities, and report writing.
- Research best practices, policies, and innovation.
- Provide support to grant development activities including participating in drafting grant proposals.
- Apply health equity and racial equity frameworks and tools to program planning, systems development, partnership and engagement strategies, and evaluation.
Relationship Management and Communication
- Support program managers and directors with all aspects of relationship management, communication and documentation for assigned workgroups and external partners.
- Provide logistical communications to achieve program deliverables.
- Assist with facilitation of group discussion with community members and organizational partners.
- Participate in community and partnership meetings and take notes.
- Serve as a key customer relations contact. Serve as liaison to contractors and partners working with IPHI on project planning and implementation.
- Prepare narrative and visual summaries of qualitative and quantitative data for partners and IPHI team members.
- Contribute to publications such as blog posts, case studies, and success stories. Collaborate with communications staff to develop content for newsletters, website and/or social media.
Continuous Improvement and Evaluation
- Conduct assessments and scans for information to support program design and execution.
- Assist in updating evaluation tracking tools and collecting program evaluation data; support distribution of online surveys.
- Identify and recommend opportunities to improve execution of tasks, including but not limited to improving administrative and operational systems related to the program.
- Monitor workgroup and partner activity and achievement of milestones and outcomes.
- Work with directors to identify and solve problems, address barriers, and conduct quality assurance and quality improvement activities.
Other duties as assigned.