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.