Program Manager

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Job Description

Job Summary:

Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health’s Center for Health Communication equips public health leaders to credibly communicate health information to an increasingly skeptical and fragmented world. Our mission: to define, teach, and share best practice in health and science communication.

We’re looking for a program manager for the Center’s Creator Program, which equips creators with accurate, vetted health information, so they can show up for their audiences with clarity, credibility, and care.  Job-Specific Responsibilities:

The program manager will work with leading scientists and clinicians and creators themselves, to develop design, and implement creator-facing education, including toolkits, briefings, playbooks, and in-person summits. They will also lead programmatic operations, including all details of our in-person summits. Join us to support a growing community of creators committed to making trustworthy, evidence-based health information accessible to everyone.

Responsibilities include

Design and develop creator-education materials:

Work with leading scientists and clinicians, and creators themselves, to turn rigorous health evidence into compelling health-communication materials and programming (toolkits, briefings, playbooks, and in-person summits) for social-media creators.

Exercise independent judgment and discretion in setting creator-education priorities, managing competing demands and advancing program work with minimal supervision.

Manage and update our creator community hub:

In collaboration with Center leadership and the Creator Program's creator partnerships manager, manage our creator-facing digital presence on Kajabi.

Ensure that creators can find, understand, and use all of our health-communication materials and programming.

Lead event logistics:

Book speakers and manage contractual details.

Identify and book appropriate space.

Plan and place catering orders.

Manage event application and/or registration.

Create leave-behinds for participant.

Book speaker and participant travel for all Creator Program events, including in-person summits.

Supervise all event staff.

Provides logistical oversight for all other Center events.

Lead program operations:

Prepare and maintain program records. Manage to program budgets.

Oversee travel arrangements.

Negotiate with hotels, caterers, and vendors.

Submit invoices, draft contracts, and work with departmental administrators on grant reporting, contractual issues, operational details, and financial procedures.

May oversee student workers or other temporary support as needed.

Performs other duties as assigned.

PLEASE NOTE:

This position has a term appointment of December 31, 2027 with…