Primary Job Duties:

Project Management

Provide project coordination and collaboration with operational timeline support involving input from other CDC Centers Institute and Offices (CIOs)
• Establish and manage a standardized project plan for PHEP Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) process, including implementation and guidance documents
• Establish and manage standardized project plans for other programmatic areas, including technical assistance and various STLT engagement efforts (including communities of practice and training support)

Strategic Planning and Organizational Design

• Determine impact of strategic plans on current and future DSLR organizational design
• Develop strategic/project plan based on the PHEP Lifecycle

Data Management Strategy and Visualization

• Assess current data management processes and systems and develop recommendations for improvement
• Assist with development of various reports and products

Technical Assistance

• Support development and implementation of overarching technical assistance strategy to include coordination across DSLR work units
• Support various training initiatives (STLT and internally facing), as needed
• Support development and implementation of a Community of Practice strategy and platform
• Identification of next steps to improve gaps and areas of opportunity discovered in assessment through strategy development and planning sessions

Continued Program Support and Development

• Support the PHEP CoAg process for the next Project Period (2024-2029)
• Support Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) development, communication, and execution methods issues management
• Project planning and documentation
• Support program requests as needed

Job Requirements:

• High school required; Bachelor's degree preferred
• The ideal candidate will have worked in the public health sector: Federal, State, Local or in emergency preparedness
• 2+ years of experience preferred
• Government experience in navigating complex federal/state/ local policies and processes
• Experience providing support to emergency response and public health readiness strategies
• Experience working with large cooperative agreements and programs
• Experience coordinating work with various stakeholders both internal and external to the agency

XLA is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, XLA will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations in the hiring process. We encourage qualified individuals with disabilities to apply. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process or to perform essential job functions, please contact our HR team by phone at 703-584-8317 or via email at humanresources@xla.com. For persons who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, or deaf-disabled, XLA will provide an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter where needed as a reasonable accommodation for the hiring processes.