Community Engagement and Outreach Specialist jobs in Charleston, SC

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Position Description

ARPA-H creates an environment to support the best ideas from Program Managers that bring together dynamic teams to solve the toughest health challenges. Their rigorous program design, competitive project selection process, and active program management ensure thoughtful and impactful expenditures. ARPA-H Program Managers serve for limited terms to ensure a constant infusion of fresh thinking and new perspectives. ARPA-H awardees through ARPANET-H are developing entirely new ways to tackle the hardest challenges in health.

ARPANET-H is a nationwide health innovation network that connects people, innovators, and institutions. This network is anchored by three regional hubs - one focused on designing for the American people and their caregivers, another on catalyzing markets and industry to ensure solutions thrive after government funding, and a third hub in the National Capital Region and focused on coordinating with federal partners and managing ARPA-H's programs.

The Customer Experience Hub (CX Hub) puts people at the center of ARPA-H programs and projects, developing technologies that will be accessible, desirable, and affordable for all. It will incorporate human centered and design-thinking principles in a variety of ways, including reaching patient populations and engaging with providers. This consortium is located in Dallas, TX and managed by the Consortium Management Firm (CMF) ATI.

The CMF, ATI, is seeking four Community Engagement Specialist candidates for the four regions of the US: Northeast, Southeast, Northwest and Southwest. This role is responsible for connecting with community-based organizations, maintaining relationships, and ensuring that scopes for collaboration are feasible, executed effectively, and documented so key insights can be passed to ARPA-H PMs when aligned to project topics. Candidates may be located in metro centers in each of these regions where travel to regional airports does not take more than a business day. These roles are critical to ARPA-H's vision to be community-led in our solutions for America's health futures.

Apply at ATI.ORG; we only accept applications submitted through our applicant tracking system.

**This is a remote position located in the NorthwesternRegion of the United States with travel requirements**

Essential Functions

• Identify relevant community-based organizations based on ARPA-H's four focus areas for health research. Focus on small, yet impactful, organizations providing direct services to communities and that have garnered high-levels of trust (e.g., faith-based organizations, barbershops/beauty salons, community centers, non-profits, local governments, etc)
• Build and maintain relationships with community-based organizations (CBO): Generate and maintain bi-directional communications with community partners, so ARPA-H has a clear understanding of the CBOs' priorities and CBOs are kept aware of how their insights have impacted ARPA-H's decision-making
• Maintain and grow network of organizations by using a variety of outreach methods (workshops, conferences, town halls, local marketing, etc).
• Work with ARPA-H PMs to design targeted outreach within community network specific to projects as needed.
• Maintain a database which captures the type of work each organization pursues and the modes in which they can engage with the PATIO team (e.g. community research, co-design, expert perspectives, regional convenings)
• Explore, scope, and support ways for community-based organizations to engage with ARPA-H in furthering research priorities, programs, and other projects. The community engagement specialists will push information about existing opportunities to gain community support and pull needs from the community to inform ARPA-H PMs.
• Collaborate closely with the Community Engagement Manager to align on weekly priorities
• Collaborate with other Community Engagement Specialists to share strategies, support each other and build tools for the broader team
• Serve as a generative thought partner to the ARPANET-H Division and the Project Accelerator Transition Innovation Office (PATIO) Design Lead on relevant tools and approaches to use with each CBO that is respectful of their time, resources, and lived-experience and aligns with ARPA-H goals

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in nonprofit organizations or community organizing
• At least 5 years of experience working with nonprofits or community-based organizations in an administrative or programmatic role
• Familiarity with the social and economic justice topics; demonstrated commitment to tackling challenges related to equity preferred
• Experience building and maintaining relationships with senior staff
• Proven team player
• Experience working within a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communicator with an ability to convey ideas in a clear and effective manner
• Ability and willingness to travel monthly regionally and periodically to the CX Hub location in Dallas, TX or other locations in the US
• Experience in the health sector (including service delivery, health policy, or research and development or health innovation) is a plus
• Experience with human-centered design, participatory design, or generating insights from interviewing end-users is a plus
• Fluency in a language besides English is a plus
• Must be a U.S. citizen by birth or naturalization, or a green card lawful U.S. permanent resident, or a political asylum in the U.S. Individual must meet the definition of a U.S. person upon hire due to the risk assessment of this position.
• This position is subject to a background check that includes a review of criminal records. In reviewing an applicant's criminal history, the company will consider prior criminal convictions that have a relationship to the job duties and responsibilities of the position. The company considers the nature of the crime, the time that has elapsed since the crime and the job duties for the position at issue in making an individualized determination. Individuals may be excluded when the company determines, based on the above factors, that hiring, transferring or promoting the applicant would pose an unreasonable risk to the business, its employees or its customers and vendors.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Regular physical activity to include walking, bending, stooping, reaching, standing and prolonged sitting.

Ability to speak, read, hear, and write, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Ability to use phone and computer systems, copier, fax, and other office equipment.

Must be able to occasionally move/lift up to 25 pounds with or without reasonable accommodation.

Work Environment

This position is located in an air-conditioned, environmentally controlled atmosphere. Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate and the distraction level in the work environment is often heavy.

ATI is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individual with Disabilities.

ATI complies with the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination provision mandated by Executive Order 13665.

Apply at ATI.ORG; we only accept applications submitted through our applicant tracking system. If you require accommodations to complete this application, please contact Human Resources at (843) 760-4350 or email hr@ati.org.