Senior Program Officer of Grantmaking
Company: Health Resources in Action
Location: Boston
Posted on: May 8, 2024
Job Description:
Health Resources in Action, Inc. (HRiA), a national nonprofit
public health consulting organization with headquarters based in
Boston, Massachusetts, has a mission to help people live healthier
lives and build healthier communities through prevention, health
promotion, policy, and research. HRiA works with a diverse group of
clients across the country to address some of the most critical
public health issues using innovative and evidence-based approaches
to improve population health. Our clients include philanthropic
entities, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, state and local
health departments, and hospitals. Since its founding in 1957, HRiA
has been at the forefront of public health, leading the way to
promote healthier and more vibrant communities. Our work recognizes
the impact of social, economic, and racial factors on health
outcomes. HRiA is also a member of the National Network of Public
Health Institutes with over forty affiliates located across the
country. Summary: Health Resources in Action (HRiA) is seeking a
highly talented and experienced Grantmaking Senior Program Officer
to join a vibrant and growing public health consulting organization
and support a portfolio comprised of the Massachusetts Community
Health and Healthy Aging Funds (the Funds) as well as other funding
programs focused on community and population health. The overall
roles and responsibilities of this position include recruitment of
applicants, expanding engagement, grantmaking support, and
co-creating and implementing capacity-building and training
programs for awardees of the Funds. Specific to the broader
Community Health Grantmaking portfolio, responsibilities include
supporting the management of larger grantmaking initiatives, and
leading small to medium-sized grantmaking projects. The Senior
Program Officer will report to the Managing Director of Racial
Equity Grantmaking and work collaboratively with the Funds team
made up of Program Officers, a Program Associate, and other
colleagues focused on grantmaking and evaluation. This position
will sit within the Community Health Grantmaking department at
Health Resources in Action. Duties and Responsibilities: The
Massachusetts Community Health & Healthy Aging Funds (The Funds)
and other Community Health grantmaking projects explicitly focus on
reducing health inequities in communities across Massachusetts by
addressing their root causes, specifically institutional and
structural racism, as well as the social determinants of health.
The Funds are both a grantmaking and capacity-building program that
provides financial resources and support to communities addressing
racial and health inequities across the Commonwealth. The Funds are
guided by the following three principles:
- The -Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) -account for
significant variation in -health outcomes.
- Policies, systems, and social/physical environments are
historically based in -structural and institutional racism -and
other forms of oppression.
- Structural and institutional racism and other forms of
oppression need to be understood and disrupted to eliminate
inequities in population health outcomes and the social
determinants of health. In January 2017, the Massachusetts
Department of Public Health (DPH) completed a landmark revision of
the Determination of Need (DoN) regulation which led to the
creation of the Funds. Resources for the Community Health and
Healthy Aging Funds are from hospitals, long-term care facilities,
and other healthcare entities that are required to contribute.
Overall, there are three distinct funding streams, Policies,
Systems & Environmental change (PSE), Community Health Improvement
Plan (CHIP) and Healthy Aging. The Funds' vision: the MA CHHA
Funds, through contributions to equitable systems across sectors
and the explicit prioritization of people of color and older
adults, envisions Massachusetts communities that are transformed so
that all residents have an equitable opportunity to have the
highest quality of life possible. The Senior Program Officer will
focus their activities on the Funds' awardees, with a particular
emphasis on the PSE funding stream, including a range of
grantmaking, programmatic, and project oversight, and capacity
building support for the Funds. This position will have oversight
of the following responsibilities relative to the Funds:
- Participate in the overall planning and implementation of
Funds-related activities, team, and evaluation meetings.
- Provide support and feedback for landscape analyses for
outreach and engagement activities.
- Identify, recruit, and engage potential applicants during
grantmaking cycles.
- Manage reviewer activities, including coordinating
communications with internal and external reviewers, facilitating
review meetings, and recommending cohorts of awardees to
decision-making bodies.
- Manage the award approval and declination process.
- Develop?deep ongoing relationships?with awardees, including
facilitating check-ins and site visits.
- Serve as first point-of-contact for questions and requests from
awardees as needed and manage ongoing communications with
them.
- Manage and lead the Funds communication plan with key Funds'
staff.
- Serve as grantee champion, identifying opportunities to uplift
awardee work and highlight achievements.
- Provide technical assistance and ongoing capacity building for
awardees.
- Identify high-level needs among awardees, and address through
trainings, networking with other awardees or organizations, and
funding opportunities as needed.
- Support analyses of progress reports, no-cost extensions, and
budget re-allocation requests.
- Develop and disseminate written materials highlighting the
impact of the Funds.
- Support the overall operations of the Funds. Within Community
Health Grantmaking and the broader organization, the position will
have the following responsibilities:
- Lead small- to -medium-sized grantmaking projects including
supporting the wide range of grantmaking activities as requested by
the client, from strategy and development, to drafting Requests for
Proposals in collaboration with project teams, overseeing
application submissions, leading review processes, and making
recommendations to decision-making bodies.
- Foster strong relationships externally and internally,
including participation in HRiA organizational committees and staff
meetings.
- Liaise with funders and assist with new business development
efforts as needed.
- Work collaboratively with program teams to integrate
grantmaking best practices.
- Propose ideas/improvements in project processes and systems
through participation in program planning meetings. This is a
full-time, exempt position. The salary range for this position is
$70,000-$86,000 and is commensurate with experience. Health
Resources in Action offers an attractive benefits package including
employer-funded medical, dental, vision, disability and life
insurance, and employer contributions to a tax-deferred annuity.
Additionally, employees enjoy flexible work schedules and other
policies that promote work/life balance, vacation starting at four
weeks, thirteen paid holidays, plus office closure time for the
last week of December. While HRiA operates as a national and
virtually operating organization, there will be a preference for
candidates residing in Massachusetts. Candidate Qualifications:
- A commitment to addressing racial and health equity, including
structural racism and other systemic drivers of health equity.
- A commitment to diversity of thought, backgrounds, and
perspectives.
- At least five years of experience in foundation or
philanthropic, community organizing or racial equity non-profit
work.
- Facilitative experience, including of team and review meetings,
and shepherding a group through consensus processes.
- Organized, detail-oriented and able to meet deadlines.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize and coordinate multiple
tasks and events simultaneously.
- High level of professionalism and self-motivation, with a
demonstrated ability to commit to and follow through on
projects.
- Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills, including
communicating by videoconference, phone, and/or in person (when
needed) with community members and organizational partners.
- Able to work independently and as a part of a team.
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment with evolving
endpoints, while delivering high quality work.
- Experience in event and meeting planning, coordination, and
logistical support.
- Excellent problem solving, organizational, critical thinking,
and interpersonal skills.
- Resourceful self-starter with a proven ability to perform under
tight deadlines.
- Flexibility and a sense of humor.
- Experience working in diverse and multicultural settings. This
description is intended to indicate the kinds of work duties that
will be required in this position. It is not intended to limit, or
in any way modify, the ability of any supervisor to assign, direct,
and contract work of staff under their supervision. The use of a
particular illustration describing duties shall not be held to
exclude other duties, not mentioned, that are of a similar level or
difficulty.
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