Job Description
Job title: Public Health Program Director 1
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Duration: 12 months
Description:
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership and oversight for the Fetal and Infant Mortality Reduction Rural Health Transformation Program across assigned rural regions
- Manage and monitor grant-funded contracts, including reviewing scopes of work, budgets, expenditures, and deliverables to ensure compliance with State and federal requirements
- Serve as the primary liaison to funded grantees, providing technical assistance, guidance, and ongoing support to ensure the successful implementation of program activities
- Support the establishment and sustainability of multisector, community-based collaboratives that include healthcare, public health, community organizations, and individuals with lived experience
- Ensure grantees are implementing data-driven planning processes, including the use of vital statistics, Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) data, and other relevant data sources
- Guide and support the development and execution of data-informed action plans aligned with the TDH Infant Health Strategic Plan
- Oversee implementation of evidence-informed and community-driven strategies, including initiatives related to:
- Community Health Access and Navigation in Tennessee (CHANT) and Tennessee Community Compass
- Count the Kicks fetal movement awareness program
- Priority areas such as prenatal care, safe sleep, breastfeeding, smoking cessation, and preterm birth prevention
- Promote coordination and systems integration across healthcare, public health, and community-based services to improve access and continuity of care
- Monitor program performance through shared measurement approaches, including review of process and outcome data, quarterly reports, and evaluation activities
- Participate in and support state-led evaluation, reporting, training, and technical assistance efforts
- Ensure meaningful community engagement, including integration of individuals with lived experience in planning, implementation, and evaluation activities
- Support development of sustainability plans, including identifying funding opportunities and strategies to maintain program impact beyond the grant period
- Conduct site visits, facilitate meetings, and represent the program in regional and statewide stakeholder engagements
- Collaborate with internal TDH programs and external partners to align efforts and advance maternal, fetal, and infant health priorities
Minimum Requirements:
- Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor’s degree in public health or a related field
- Experience equivalent to substantial (5 years or more) of full-time, increasingly responsible professional health program work
- Experience in program or grant management, including contract oversight, budgeting, and reporting
- Demonstrated ability to lead or support multi-partner initiatives or community collaboratives
- Strong understanding of public health data and experience applying data to program planning and evaluation
- Excellent organizational, project management, and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders, including community members and individuals with lived experience
- Experience providing training or technical assistance is preferred
- Knowledge of maternal, fetal, and infant health and rural health systems is preferred
- Ability to travel within assigned regions and statewide as needed
- Ability to work remotely with periodic in-person meetings in Davidson County and assigned rural locations
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