CORE Health Alliance Program Manager

GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES

The CORE Health Alliance Program Manager coordinates and implements Guilford County's implementation of the Healthy People Healthy Carolinians grant, piloting strategies to improve nutrition, physical activity, and overall health in two Guilford County communities. The role manages partnerships, data collection, and community engagement while supporting coalition efforts and aligning local stakeholders to advance shared health goals. Program implementation and grant reporting are required duties in this role.

An employee in this class designs, implements, and evaluates programs that increase physical health and nutrition in communities in Guilford County. This includes coordinating regular meetings, events, and activities, completing grant reports, and conducting outreach and engagement work at the community level. The position does this work guided by the Guilford County Cooperative Extension Director, Assistant County Manager for Strong Community and is supported by a Steering Committee, which serves an advisory function, guiding the strategic direction to support the community work.

• Leadership
  • Provide visionary, adaptive leadership, modeling Core Health Alliance always guiding values and fostering a culture that reflects them.
  • Establish, facilitate, and maintain effective and open communication with the Extension Director, Steering Committee, and other stakeholders, including community members.
  • Facilitate the development and maintenance of a data-informed and community-driven plan to improve and support physical health and nutrition in Guilford County
  • Provide support to partner organizations in aligning their work with the CORE Health Alliance
• Meeting and Event Implementation
  • Meeting Coordination
    • Adm Meetings – plan monthly meeting agendas with feedback from Extension Director and Assistant County Manager, facilitate meetings, maintains meeting notes and associated documentation.
    • Steering Team Meetings – secure meeting space for quarterly meetings, plan meeting agendas, prepare meeting space and logistics ahead of meetings, ensure notes are kept for meetings.
    • Community and public event coordination – plan, implement, and evaluate up to twelve (12) community and public events related to grant deliverables.
  • Event Implementation
    • With data from community health assessments, lead events to engage the Steering Team, coalition members, and community members to plan, implement, and evaluate community-based events that promote physical health and nutrition.
• Program Implementation
  • Identify best practices and innovative strategies to improve health outcomes in selected communities.
  • With stakeholders and community members, develop a plan to implement programs that improve health outcomes in identified communities.
• Community outreach and engagement
  • Plan, implement, and evaluate up to eight (8) community engagement meetings each calendar year.
  • Conduct needs assessment and readiness assessments for communities to engage in grant-funded work.
  • Develop and maintain positive working relationships with grassroots community leaders, faith leaders, and other stakeholders.
• Coalition coordination and stakeholder engagement
  • Participate in required training by The Duke Endowment (one requires one overnight stay)
• Data collection, evaluation, and reporting
  • Write and submit grant reports to The Duke Endowment, other funders, and Guilford County
  • Identify improvements in use of data-driven decision-making and ensure data is collected, integrated, and communicated effectively across Coalition.
• Administration and fund development
  • Fiscal resource management
  • Grant writing and fund development to support program implementation, partnerships, and sustainability
  • Maintain program records in a secure and approved location
  • General administrative duties
  • Provide Core Team with documentation of work to support partnership and resource development, grant-related expenditures and planned expenditures, milestones, and foreseeable challenges
  • Create and maintain appropriate systems for business processes…