Health Program Training and Technical Assistance Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Assist in the provision of evidence-based and practice-oriented health communication technical support, training, and consultation activities.

• Aid in conducting needs assessments and engaging with recipients to pinpoint challenges, opportunities, gaps, and necessary technical assistance.

• Facilitate the development and execution of communication plans, strategies, messaging, outreach materials, and public health communication initiatives.

• Create and distribute practical tools, resource guides, communication materials, templates, and implementation support resources.

• Organize webinars, workshops, virtual training sessions, meetings, peer exchanges, communities of practice, and other educational opportunities.

• Manage requests for technical assistance consultations, prepare relevant materials, document recommendations, and monitor follow-up actions.

• Review and enhance communication plans, implementation strategies, messaging, outreach materials, educational products, and communication resources.

• Contribute to the development and upkeep of website and resource-center content.

• Organize resource libraries, perform environmental scans, and identify promising practices and evidence-based resources.

• Participate in literature reviews and the synthesis of public health information.

• Coordinate logistics for meetings, including scheduling, communication, material preparation, note-taking, and tracking action items.

• Generate reports, presentations, briefs, communication resources, implementation supports, and other written documents.

• Collect, monitor, analyze, and report on metrics related to technical assistance, training, educational materials, and participant satisfaction.

• Engage in evaluation and continuous quality improvement efforts.

• Ensure quality assurance and compliance with project timelines and deliverable specifications.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in public health, health education, public policy, behavioral or social sciences, nutrition, exercise science, communications, or a related field.

• A minimum of 2 years of professional experience in supporting public health, health education, capacity building, training and technical assistance, community engagement, health communication, program implementation, or similar activities.

• Experience in facilitating meetings, trainings, webinars, stakeholder engagement activities, or technical assistance projects.

• Familiarity with adult-learning principles, facilitation techniques, instructional design methodologies, health education practices, or related approaches.

• Proven experience in developing tools, guidance documents, communication materials, training resources, or public health products.

• Experience in supporting dissemination, knowledge sharing, resource development, or recipient engagement initiatives.

• Background in qualitative or quantitative data collection, reporting, and evaluation activities.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.

• Strong interpersonal abilities with a capacity to work both independently and collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams.

• Exceptional oral and written communication skills.

• Strong technical writing and editing skills.

• Desired experience with public health communication products, chronic disease prevention, healthy communities, nutrition, physical activity, obesity prevention, health promotion, or health equity.

• Preferred experience in supporting federally funded projects, cooperative agreements, or recipient support activities.

• Experience working with state, local, tribal, territorial, nonprofit, or community-based organizations is preferred.

• Familiarity with public health capacity building, technical assistance, or training methodologies is desired.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Reasonable accommodations for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs.

• A workplace that fosters employee thriving, expertise sharing, and the achievement of personal and professional aspirations.

• Benefits information available through the Transparency in (Benefits) Coverage Act.