Senior Technical Advisor, Program Implementation & Performance
- Salary
- $115K–$140K
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- United States
- Work type
- Hybrid
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Salary Range: $115,000.00 To $140,000.00 Annually
Position Highlights
Location: This position is based in Atlanta, GA and follows a hybrid work schedule. While candidates located in the Atlanta area are preferred, remote candidates within the United States may also be considered. Relocation assistance is not provided. Applicants must be authorized to work and reside in the United States.
Salary Range: $100,000-$115,000 plus benefits. Individual salary offers will be based on experience and qualifications unique to each candidate.
Position Type: Grant funded, limited-term opportunity contingent upon funding
Position End Date: October 30, 2028
Overview
The Senior Technical Advisor, Program Implementation & Performance provides technical leadership and oversight for implementation support, technical assistance, performance monitoring, and reporting activities for a large and diverse portfolio of grant recipients. This position serves as the primary technical lead responsible for ensuring the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of implementation support provided to awardees while promoting alignment with state and federal program priorities, funding requirements, and project objectives.
The Senior Technical Advisor provides strategic direction and technical leadership and may oversee assigned staff as appropriate. The role works collaboratively with program operations, compliance, communications, financial oversight, and external partners to support successful award implementation. The role is responsible for monitoring portfolio performance, identifying implementation challenges and risks, developing targeted technical assistance and improvement strategies, and translating performance findings into actionable recommendations that strengthen awardee implementation and program performance and advance continuous improvement.
This position requires a highly experienced public health leader with expertise in program implementation, technical assistance strategy and delivery, performance management, stakeholder engagement, and complex grant-funded initiatives. The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise with exceptional leadership, analytical, and relationship-management skills and is comfortable working across multiple organizations, disciplines, and funding streams to support coordinated implementation, evidence-informed decision-making, and continuous improvement.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership and Team Oversight
- Supervises staff, as needed, providing leadership, performance management, coaching, and strategic direction.
- Establishes technical priorities, standards, and approaches for implementation support, technical assistance, and performance monitoring across the award portfolio.
- Serves as a member of the project leadership team and contributes to project strategy, implementation planning, performance management, and continuous quality improvement efforts.
Technical Assistance and Implementation Support
- Provides strategic oversight of the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of technical assistance and implementation support services, ensuring award recipients receive high-quality, responsive guidance aligned with program goals and funding requirements.
- Guides the identification, prioritization, and resolution of awardee implementation challenges, including the development of targeted technical assistance and improvement strategies.
- Promotes consistent, evidence-informed approaches to implementation support while allowing flexibility to address varying awardee needs, capacities, and implementation contexts.
Performance Monitoring, Data and Reporting
- Provides strategic oversight of data collection, performance monitoring, and reporting systems to ensure timely, accurate, and actionable information is available for project management and decision-making.
- Reviews and interprets performance, reporting, and implementation data to identify trends, risks, challenges, and opportunities for improvement across the award portfolio.
- Provides technical oversight and quality review of performance reports, dashboards, analyses, and other reporting products to ensure accuracy, consistency, and meaningful interpretation of findings.
- Ensures reporting systems, dashboards, analyses, and deliverables meet project, state agency, and federal requirements and support effective program oversight.
- Translates performance findings into recommendations for leadership, state agency partners, and award recipients to strengthen implementation and outcomes.
- Collaborates with internal teams and state agency partners to ensure effective information sharing, coordinated implementation, and timely performance reporting.
- Uses performance data, awardee feedback, and implementation insights to inform technical assistance priorities, adaptive management, and continuous improvement across the portfolio.
Cross-Functional Coordination and Stakeholder Engagement
- Collaborates with internal teams and state agency partners to ensure effective information sharing, coordinated implementation, and timely performance reporting.
- Serves as a primary technical point of contact for state agency counterparts on matters related to technical assistance, awardee implementation, performance monitoring, and reporting.
- Partners closely with the Senior Program Officer to align technical priorities and activities with project workplans, timelines, deliverables, and operational requirements.
- Elevates significant technical challenges, implementation risks, and performance concerns to project leadership and recommends appropriate mitigation strategies.
Qualifications and Necessary Skills:
Minimum Qualifications
- Master’s degree in public health, public policy, health systems, health administration, program evaluation, social sciences, or related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in public health program implementation, technical assistance, performance management, public health systems strengthening, or related functions.
- Demonstrated experience working in, or partnering with, state, tribal, territorial, or local public health agencies to design, implement, monitor, and improve complex grant-funded initiatives.
- Proven success leading and supervising multidisciplinary teams, including providing strategic direction, performance management, staff development, and quality oversight across technical, programmatic, and analytical functions.
- Demonstrated experience leading strategic planning and project start-up activities, including designing implementation frameworks, establishing performance management structures, developing operating procedures, and building systems that support successful program execution and long-term sustainability.
- Demonstrated experience designing, managing, or overseeing technical assistance approaches that respond to varying implementation needs and organizational capacities.
- Ability to interpret programmatic and performance data, identify implementation challenges, and translate findings into practical recommendations for program improvement.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical and performance information to government partners, project leadership, and diverse stakeholders.
- Strong project management and organizational skills, including the ability to coordinate technical activities across multiple workstreams, organizations, and reporting requirements.
- Demonstrated initiative, sound judgment, adaptability, and ability to manage competing priorities in complex, evolving implementation environments.
- Performs other duties as assigned in support of project objectives.
- Ability to travel as needed to represent the designated project and the CDC Foundation (up to 20 percent annually).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with CMS, HRSA, CDC, or other federal programs, funding requirements, and performance reporting frameworks.
- Experience with grants management or subrecipient monitoring.
- Familiarity with performance monitoring systems, dashboards, and reporting platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, Smartsheet, or similar tools.
- Experience translating technical information into executive-level reports and narratives and actionable recommendations for program leadership and government partners.
- Experience supporting large-scale health systems transformation, rural health initiatives, or complex statewide grant programs.
- Experience applying quality improvement, implementation science, or other evidence-informed approaches to strengthen program implementation and performance.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status, and all other characteristics protected by law. We comply with all applicable laws including E.O. 11246 and the Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 governing employment practices and do not discriminate on the basis of any unlawful criteria in accordance with 41 C.F.R. §§ 60-300.5(a)(12) and 60-741.5(a)(7). As a federal government contractor, we take affirmative action on behalf of protected veterans.
The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment.
Relocation expenses are not included.
About the CDC Foundation
The CDC Foundation is an independent nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners to support the public health system, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in preventing and responding to threats to health. In this role, we are focused on one priority: building catalytic, flexible and impactful partnerships—with corporations, philanthropies, individuals and organizations—to help improve the health and lives of people in all communities, everywhere. Visit www.cdcfoundation.org for more information
