Health Program Training and Technical Assistance; TTA) Specialist; Atlanta​/Remote

Position: Health Program Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Specialist (Atlanta / Remote Role)
Description

** HEALTH PROGRAM TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (TTA) SPECIALIST*
* ICF works at the forefront of today's public health issues, helping clients improve health outcomes through evidence-based strategies, capacity building, stakeholder engagement, and implementation support. Our work addresses complex public health challenges related to chronic disease prevention, healthy communities, health equity, nutrition, physical activity, obesity prevention, and population health improvement.

ICF seeks a  
** Training and Technical Assistance Specialist
** to support capacity-building, training, technical assistance, health communication, and knowledge-sharing activities for CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) and other public health clients. This work focuses on strengthening the capacity of state, local, tribal, territorial, and community-based organizations to plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based health communication and health promotion strategies related to nutrition, physical activity, obesity prevention, healthy communities, and chronic disease prevention.

The specialist will support communication-focused technical assistance, training, resource development, and dissemination activities designed to improve public health practice and outcomes.

** Key Responsibilities*
* In this role, you will join a multidisciplinary team to coordinate, deliver, and support training and technical assistance activities. This includes assisting with recipient support, development of resources and communication materials, facilitation of learning opportunities, website and resource-center support, consultation support, and project coordination activities.

The specialist will help public health recipients and partners strengthen their health communication capacity by supporting communication planning, message development, audience engagement, dissemination of evidence-based resources, and evaluation of communication activities. This role will support the delivery of communication-focused technical assistance and consultation provided through virtual and in-person interactions with recipients and partners.

The position requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, initiative, and the ability to collaborate effectively with project team members, clients, partners, and public health practitioners.

Successful candidates should be eager to support innovative approaches to public health capacity building and continuous learning. Ideal candidates are organized, flexible, and skilled at translating public health information into practical resources and actionable guidance.

Candidates should have a background in public health, health education, community engagement, health communication, training and technical assistance, program implementation, or related fields. Experience supporting public health initiatives related to chronic disease prevention, health promotion, nutrition, physical activity, community health, or health equity is desirable.

** What You'll Be Doing (Responsibilities/Day-to-Day)*
* Primary responsibilities for this position will involve supporting training and technical assistance activities under the direction of senior project leadership.

+ Support delivery of evidence- and practice-based health communication technical assistance, training, and consultation activities related to nutrition, physical activity, obesity prevention, healthy communities, health equity, and chronic disease prevention.

+ Assist with needs-assessment and recipient-engagement activities to identify challenges, opportunities, gaps, and technical assistance needs among recipients and partners.

+ Support recipients and partners in developing and implementing communication plans, communication strategies, messaging, outreach materials, and related public health communication activities.

+ Support development and dissemination of practical tools, resource guides, communication materials, templates, and implementation supports for public health practitioners.

+ Coordinate and support webinars, workshops, virtual trainings, meetings, peer exchanges, communities of practice, and other learning opportunities.

+ Support technical assistance consultation requests by coordinating meetings, preparing materials, documenting recommendations, and tracking follow-up activities. Technical assistance may be delivered through phone, email, video conference, web conference, or in-person meetings.

+ Assist with review and quality improvement of communication plans, implementation plans, messaging, outreach materials, educational products, and other communication resources developed by recipients and public health partners.

+ Contribute to website and resource-center content development and maintenance.

+ Support development and organization of resource libraries, including conducting environmental scans and identifying promising practices and evidence-based resources.

+ Contribute to literature reviews and synthesis of…