Program Director; Health

Job Description Job Description

TITLE
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Program Director (Health)

ORGANIZATION
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Governors Association

LOCATION
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Washington, DC (onsite)

DURATION
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Full Time

POSITION STATUS
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Exempt

COMPENSATION
: A competitive compensation package will be made to the qualified candidate

REPORTS TO
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Managing Director, Center for Best Practices

Founded in 1908, the Governors Association is the bipartisan organization of governors from the 55 states, territories and commonwealths. NGA's mission is to share best practices, address issues of and state interest, and drive innovative solutions that improve state government and support the principles of federalism.

NGA's Center for Best Practices is the policy and research arm that helps governors develop and implement solutions to public policy challenges. NGA's State-Federal Affairs group assists in ensuring the voice of governors are heard in Congress, and the Executive Branch and NGA's Communications team collaborates with governors' offices to amplify bipartisan messaging and strategy.

Throughout the year, NGA convenes Governors and senior advisors for meaningful discourse, problem-solving and thought leadership.

The Program Director's primary responsibilities will be to lead a team that provides support to governors and other state executive branch leaders on a range of issues related to health policy. The Program Director will support governors in developing policy principles to inform federal policy making as well as produce resources to shape the debate around these policy issues.

Key issues the Program Director will focus on include identifying and developing policy solutions related to a broad range of health policy issues, including health care costs and coverage, Medicaid and access to care, public health, health workforce and systems transformation, behavioral health and maternal and child health, public health preparedness, aging and , and strategies to improve health outcomes and reduce barriers to care.

This position requires the Program Director to manage a small staff of policy experts and develop a working knowledge of new issues quickly, execute regular briefings for governors' staff, lead policy engagements with states, facilitate cross-agency and cross-sector collaboration, and respond to technical questions from governors' offices on a wide range of policy topics.

The Program Director will be expected to be full-time in Washington, DC.

• Overseeing multiple projects and project managers simultaneously, including consultants and subcontracts with states and external partners;
• Overseeing and analyzing project budgets, projecting future spending, and developing financial proposals for potential new efforts;
• Communicating effectively in verbal and written forms, with an ability to communicate clearly with policy making audiences such as state and federal officials, experts, and others;
• Designing project concepts and identifying funding for these concepts to enable this team to provide relevant and timely expertise and assistance to governors, their staff and other executive branch leaders, including by writing project concept papers and proposals, building and maintaining relationships with philanthropic, public, corporate, and federal funders, and working with NGA's Office of Development to support fundraising efforts;
• Demonstrating strong interpersonal skills to effectively work with colleagues, partner organizations, and a variety of high-ranking state and federal officials;
• Managing wide-scale projects with multiple staff and tasks simultaneously, in coordination with a diverse group of stakeholders;
• Organizing and facilitating workshops, conferences, seminars, panel discussions, state strategy sessions and other events;
• Identifying and tracking key issues of concern to governors, develop promising initiatives to address these concerns, and connecting governors' key staff with other states and experts who can assist them in addressing these issues;
• Demonstrating a commitment to NGA's mission and goals to constructively serve the needs of all governors;
• Other duties as…