Nemours
Program and Policy Analyst Senior (Finance)
Established in 2008, Nemours' National Office of Policy and Prevention promotes optimal health and well-being for all children, not only children served within the Nemours. To do this, we work with stakeholders across Nemours and the country to advocate for federal policy change and to identify, promote, and grow innovative solutions within and outside Nemours, advancing clinical care and community-based prevention efforts. Nemours also serves as a laboratory in which to test new and innovative models, informing our national policy and practice work. Through this work, we serve as a trusted resource and voice for children nationally.
This position supports a cooperative agreement (2018 - 2023) with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) focused on obesity prevention in early care and education (ECE) settings. The Senior Program and Policy Analyst (PPA) provides capacity building assistance to staff in public and private organizations across multiple states and manage a caseload of state cross sector (health, early care and education, family support, parenting) teams to integrate childhood obesity prevention into ECE systems.
This position also supports a three-year grant from The JPB Foundation focused on obesity prevention in ECE settings. Together with the project manager at the University of North Carolina Children's Healthy Weight Research Group, the Senior PPA manages and leads implementation of Better Together, a program to instill healthy eating and physical activity habits early in live through program level and system level improvements targeting ECE settings in low-income communities. This includes managing a caseload of state partners as they work to implement learning collaboratives, launch and expand statewide Go NAPSACC, and integrate childhood obesity prevention into ECE systems.
In both of these projects, the Senior PPA works with cross sector teams, using an existing framework, known as CDC's Spectrum of Opportunities 2.0, to coach them through a process of needs assessment, partnership building, and action planning. The Senior PPA assists teams as they identify and implement provider level and system level approaches that align with obesity prevention best practices in ECE. This position leads the development of relationships with national experts, research institutions, other states to supplement Nemours Technical Assistance and with CDC staff and private foundation project officers to help states make improvements on indicators that demonstrate effective integration of obesity prevention into ECE systems.
QUALIFICATIONS
Master's degree in education, public health, public policy/administration, community health, child behavioral health, child psychology or related field. In lieu of Master's degree, Bachelor's degree plus10 years of additional relevant experience.
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