• Job Description

  Req#: 536154

  POSITION TITLE:	Program Manager, Center for Health Equity
  SUPERVISOR:	Director, Center for Health Equity
  DATE EFFECTIVE:	May 28, 2025
  DATE REVISED:	May 28, 2025
  LOCATION:	Washington, D.C.
  TRAVEL:	Moderate
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  POSITION SUMMARY
  About NAACP At the NAACP, our mission is to achieve equity, political rights and social inclusion by advancing policies and practices that expand human and civil rights, eliminate discrimination, and accelerate wellbeing, education, and economic security of Black people and all persons of color. About the NAACP Centers of Innovation (C-HOPE) The NAACP Centers of Innovation are centralized hubs purposed to drive impact within a defined complex system, providing thought leadership, strategy and fostering best practices for wide-scale adoption. There are four Centers of Innovation at the NAACP: Center for Health Equity (health and well-being issues); Center for Opportunity, Race, and Justice (inclusive economy issues and race and justice issues); Center for Public Education Innovation (education innovation issues); and Center for Environmental and Climate Justice (environmental and climate justice issues). Each Center focuses on transformative change within their respective issue area(s). The Center’s team of subject matter experts will work with our robust national network of member units and their local communities to disrupt the inequitable systems that disproportionately impact Black Americans and communities of color. About the Program Manager The NAACP seeks a dynamic and highly-organized, effective and articulate systems-thinker to serve as Program Manager. This role embraces the 3Cs (coordination, cooperation, and collaboration) and is primarily responsible for leading a portfolio of strategic projects across the Centers of Innovation, including executing project plans, status reports, and deliverables.
  RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES
  Contribute to the implementation of a strategic portfolio of work; Establish and maintain processes for managing campaigns, initiatives, and projects; Develop comprehensive project plans including scope, objectives and timelines; Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure projects adhere to schedule and budget; Ensure responsive and effective communication; Develop resources, presentations, and other materials; Manage and coordinate team, committee, and other meetings; Track multi-year program initiatives in accordance with expected outcomes and financial performance; Coordinate reporting functions and track key metrics and outcomes of team’s grant-funded and other work. Draft reports, memoranda, briefs, and other written communications to various audiences; Serve as the liaison to teams and stakeholders, providing representation where appropriate; Leverage appropriate tools to ensure efficiencies and quality of work; Deliver high quality, timely work product; Perform any other related duties as may be assigned by leadership.
  QUALIFICATIONS
  Educational/Professional Experience
  Bachelor’s degree in a relevant or equivalent experience preferred; Minimum of three to five years’ experience in program/project management or related field; experience in non-profit, policy, advocacy, or other civil rights organizations preferred; Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification preferred; Six Sigma Certification preferred; Salesforce experience is preferred. Practical experience with Lean or Six Sigma methodologies; Demonstrated experience leading small- and large-scale projects; Experience in a fast-paced highly dynamic, evolving organization and work environment in a national, academic or nonprofit organization program management position; Effective communication skills including exceptional written and verbal skills, excellent people skills, and strong relationship-building skills with an ability to collaborate with a variety of internal and external stakeholders; Strong execution, analytical and organizational skills and demonstrated experience in prioritizing and executing multiple priorities, programs, and projects seamlessly with excellent attention to detail; Demonstrated proactive problem-solving skills with strong decision-making capability; Work effectively both independently, as well as, in a team-oriented, collaborative and collegial environment; and Proficiency in MS Office Suite, Outlook and related Project Management Software.

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  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W E B Du Bois, Mary White Ovingt...

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