Food and Nutrition Evaluation Project Manager

August 22

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Description

• Establish work plans and multi-disciplinary staffing plans for each phase of project and arrange for recruitment or assignment of project personnel. • Manage and mentor staff, encouraging collaboration and promoting a positive relationship between colleagues. • Manage programs to ensure that implementation and prescribed activities are carried out in accordance with specified objectives. • Plan and develop methods and procedures for evaluating food and nutrition programs, lead and coordinate evaluation, training, and/or technical assistance activities, and exercise control over personnel responsible for specific functions or phases of programs. • Demonstrate advanced subject matter expertise, as well as a clear understanding of team’s and broader Altarum capabilities to leverage. • Review project proposal or plan to determine time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing projects, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of projects. • Provide professional client interface, ensure responsiveness to client requirements. • Continually identify lessons learned, evaluate completed tasks and make process improvements based upon successful and unsuccessful project elements. Develop best practices to share across Altarum. • Present findings to clients, policymakers, service providers, and community groups, as needed. • Assist with developing, preparing, and coordinating Requests for Proposals (RFP), grant applications, and grant related activities to obtain funding for practice area related programs and Altarum related work. • Provide thought leadership, subject matter expertise, and project/client management capabilities as needed.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in public health nutrition or related field. • At least 7 years of experience as an analyst or related role, with at least 3 years of experience as a project manager for evaluation or research studies. PMP Certification is a plus. • Must have experience designing and implementing mixed-methods evaluation studies of food and nutrition-related initiatives. Direct experience with SNAP, SNAP-Ed, and/or WIC is a plus. • Must have experience facilitating meetings with clients. Experience facilitating interviews and focus groups is a plus. • Has knowledge, skills, and abilities to lead projects with limited guidance and exercises discretion and sound judgement. • Experience managing budgets, plans, teams and complex time-sensitive deliverables and deadlines. • Experience planning and managing projects that are moderately complex, e.g., management of subcontractors’ scope of work and deliverables, overseeing a matrixed team. • Track record of leading, thinking strategically, innovating, acting with integrity, and exceeding client expectations.