Job Description

The Manager, Health Care Access , will play a crucial role in our ability to increase the impact of HIV and viral hepatitis programming within state and local public health departments. This role will provide strategic recommendations, develop resources, and facilitate activities that strengthen health departments. Reporting to the Director of Health Care Access, this position will be responsible for planning and managing various projects with tight deadlines. This work may also include providing technical assistance, writing federal grant reports and applications, engaging critical partners, and providing quantitative and qualitative analyses regarding the impact of health system changes on health department programs and people living with HIV (PLWH).

The ideal candidate must have demonstrated knowledge of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, particularly Part B and the HIV/AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP). The candidate must also be an independent self-starter who can develop and execute new project work with minimal direction and demonstrate the ability to manage projects promptly. This position requires strong writing skills.

Essential Functions

• Manage projects that include developing resources and technical assistance that improve the ability of state health departments to run effective Ryan White, ADAP, and EHE programs.

• Assess state health department and territory needs, especially as it relates to enhancing administrative, operational, and leadership capacity for state health departments.

• Provide quantitative and qualitative analysis of HIV and viral hepatitis care and treatment programs and their clients.

• Contribute technical writing skills to the development of grant funding applications, narratives, annual reports, and technical reviews.

• Collaborate with internal NASTAD teams to support Medicaid, insurance, and health system transformation activities.

• Represent NASTAD and its positions at meetings, briefings, and consultations related to state department HIV health care programs.

• Provide timely support and interaction with NASTAD’s members through responsive and innovative messaging, mentoring, networking, and technical assistance activities.

Qualifications

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Expertise in Governmental Public Health Systems, especially Ryan White and ADAP program administration

• Expertise with Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) or syndemic programming, such as hepatitis and harm reduction programming is a plus

• Project Management

• Collaboration & Teamwork

• Public speaking that incorporates design and delivery of dynamic, engaging, and content-accurate material to diverse audiences

• Expertise in grant writing for governmental and corporate partners

• Analytical Thinking: The ability to tackle problems using a logical, systematic approach.

• Stakeholder Orientation: The ability to demonstrate concern for satisfying one's external and/or internal stakeholders.

• Ability to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Experience/Education

• Master's or bachelor's degree in social services, Public Health, Public Administration, or any equivalent combination of training, education, and experience that demonstrates the candidate’s ability to perform the position’s duties. At least six years of total related work experience is preferred.

• At least two years of specific experience with Ryan White Part B &ADAP programs is required.

• Two years of experience with Ryan White Part A and/or EHE programs is preferred but not required.

• Two years’ experience with professional technical writing, including writing grant applications, narratives, reports, and toolkits.

NASTAD Competencies

• Leadership – Integrates in their work and at the team level a strategic vision and critical analysis that optimizes success for projects, staff, and organizational priorities as applicable.

• Communications – Strategically communicates internally and externally in a transparent, concise, respectful, and trauma-informed manner; simplifies complicated concepts and communicates them regardless of the situation or audience.

• Teamwork –Proactively contributes toward the completion of team tasks and team building. Champions an anti-racist, collaborative, and supportive organizational team culture.

• Reliability and Adaptability –Takes ownership of own objectives and performance. Independently completes tasks in a timely and consistent manner. Adapts to, and integrates in own tasks, changes in work environment, priorities, and organizational needs.

• Problem-solving and analytical thinking – Takes a solutions-focused approach to problem-solving: identifies a problem, finds the root cause, and structures logical solutions. Able to solve problems by analyzing situations and applying critical thinking to resolve them.

Additional Information

• $65,000 – $70,000 and commensurate with experience
• Full-time, 40 hours/week role.
• Willing to travel as needed, up to 20%
• Remote work is possible.
• Interest in working with a national HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis public health organization.
• Interest in working within a diverse environment.
• Commitment to Anti-Racism values.

We encourage people of diverse ages, sexual orientations, gender identities and expression, disabilities, religions, races, ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, work, and life experiences to apply. We recognize that to accelerate the end of the HIV and hepatitis epidemics, our workforce must be representative of groups that have been disproportionately impacted.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.