Health Program Director

Health Program Coordinator 
Nashville,TN
Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development, implementation, and evaluation of the Adolescent Health Strategic Plan, ensuring alignment with state and federal priorities and advancing coordinated adolescent health efforts.

• Provide statewide leadership for adolescent health initiatives that promote healthy youth development and improve health outcomes for adolescents.

• Develop, implement, manage, and evaluate adolescent health programs and initiatives.

• Lead coordination of the Sources of Strength suicide prevention program by collaborating with implementing schools, community organizations, and local and national trainers to ensure fidelity.

• Lead statewide implementation of Screenagers: Under the Influence, including project planning, coordination, partner engagement, implementation, evaluation, technical assistance, and reporting to leadership and funding agencies.

• Support youth leadership initiatives by facilitating meetings, developing youth leadership opportunities, maintaining communication with members, coordinating youth-led initiatives, and supporting federal reporting requirements.

• Coordinate adolescent engagement strategies, including advisory groups and focus groups, to ensure youth perspectives are incorporated into program planning, implementation, and evaluation.

• Serve as a Social Emotional Well-Being Priority Lead and coordinate activities in collaboration with domain leads.

• Build and sustain partnerships with schools, healthcare providers, community organizations, youth-serving agencies, and other partners to advance adolescent health priorities.

• Identify emerging adolescent health needs and implement effective strategies related to positive youth development, healthy relationships, sexual health education, pregnancy prevention, dating violence prevention, nutrition, physical activity, and overall well-being.

• Provide technical assistance, consultation, and training to internal and external partners on adolescent health best practices.

• Monitor program performance, evaluate outcomes, analyze data, and use findings to support continuous program improvement.

• Develop grant applications, progress reports, presentations, and other required state and federal reports.

• Represent the organization on statewide and national committees, workgroups, conferences, and collaborative initiatives related to adolescent health.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of adolescent development, positive youth development, and effective public health practices.

• Experience developing, implementing, managing, and evaluating public health programs or initiatives.

• Demonstrated ability to develop strategic plans and translate priorities into measurable actions.

• Demonstrated ability to build partnerships and collaborate with diverse stakeholders.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including public speaking, facilitation, and technical writing.

• Experience providing technical assistance, training, and consultation.

• Knowledge of grant management, program evaluation, and performance measurement.

• Strong organizational, analytical, critical thinking, and project management skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities independently while working collaboratively across teams.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.