Job Location: Washington, DC
Telework Eligible: Yes, at least 3 days per week in-person reporting at Washington, DC office.
Remote Eligible: No.
Summary Statement:
The Public Health Institute (PHI) is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting health, well-being, and quality of life for people throughout California, across the nation and around the world. As one of the largest and most comprehensive public health organizations in the nation, we are at the forefront of research and innovations to improve the efficacy of public health statewide, nationally, and internationally.
Credence and its partner, the Public Health Institute (PHI), are both employers for GHTASC, and are seeking a Program Assistant under GHTASC. This position will be hired under Public Health Institute (PHI).
The Global Health Training, Advisory and Support Contract (GHTASC) delivers effective global health programming to advance the mission of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Bureau for Global Health (GH) through institutional support and workforce development services from junior, mid-level, senior and expert advisory, and administrative professionals.
The Office of Population and Reproductive Health (PRH) within the Bureau for Global Health’s (GH) advances and supports family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) programs worldwide. The Office provides global coordination and leadership for improved policy, advocacy, and health outcomes; generates, organizes and disseminates knowledge in response to global and country needs; and partners with USAID field missions to accelerate progress towards achieving FP/RH development objectives. PRH is committed to advancing and supporting a more inclusive, diverse, equitable, accessible, anti-racist and learning community and to integrating these values into Office operations, functions and programming. PRH believes having diverse workforce benefits and enriches the development of all staff and the Office’s work.
The Policy, Evaluation and Communication (PEC) Division within PRH creates the enabling environment for FP/RH. The PEC division works with partners within USAID and externally in order to promote effective family planning advocacy, policy, financing, and governance; collect, analyze, and evaluate data for evidence-based decision making; develop and implement social and behavior change and knowledge management efforts to influence attitudes, norms, and behaviors and generate, curate, organize, share, and use knowledge to create value or support decision-making in context. PEC provides technical leadership, strategic direction, and implementation oversight, support to field missions, partner coordination, and performance tracking for family planning. PEC also provides technical input for evaluation efforts across the population, health and nutrition sector.
Position Summary:
The Program Assistant is responsible for performing a variety of complex and routine administrative and analytical duties to support the social and behavior change (SBC) and knowledge management (KM) teams in the PEC Division. These duties are wide ranging and include administrative-type tasks, such as scheduling and preparing for briefings and meetings and maintaining program files, as well as more complex analytical tasks, such as collecting, compiling, and analyzing data for various program documents and designing and maintaining spreadsheets in support of financial tracking systems. The Program Assistant works with members of the team to provide overall administrative support and perform other duties and supports liaising and communication with other offices across the agency.
Full pay range for this position is: $28.50 to $49.88 per hour, with the starting wage determined based on candidate’s knowledge, skills, experience, as well as budget availability.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Qualification Requirements:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Minimum Qualifications:
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Competencies:
Prior to submitting your application, your resume must include relevant paid and non-paid experience showing dates held with month, year and hours worked per week for each position. Please ensure that all relevant experience and education is documented on your resume. There is no limitation to resume length; updates to resumes will not be accepted during the interview and selection process.
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