Program Associate, Full-Time, Sacramento, CA Based

Transform Health is a mission-driven, nationally certified, women and minority-owned health care consulting firm based in Sacramento, California. Our mission is to drive systems change to build healthy communities. Our passion is grounded in health policy and health system transformation in order to achieve high-quality health care.

We offer strategic and operational support to a broad array of stakeholders, including governments, advocacy groups, foundations, health plans, and providers. Our unique and deep bench of experience and expertise is in federal and state health policy, health system transformation, addressing social determinants of health, outreach and enrollment, program, and operations.

The full-time Program Associate is a forty-hour per week position. Transform Health's primary body of work for this role is grounded in California and requires experience with public speaking, creating work plans, project workflows, and using technology (e.g., project management software, Adobe, Excel, etc.). To be successful, you must be detail-oriented, eager to learn, an active listener, driven, and able to remain flexible across multiple projects in a dynamic health policy and program team environment of both remote and locally based experts.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provide overall project support across the team and drive projects to completion.
• Manage projects by working Independently to plan and execute a work plate that includes tracking progress and deadlines, crafting communications with clients and stakeholders, and raising issues to management timely and in a strategic manner.
• Externally facing work with stakeholders to problem-solve, applying professional judgment and coordinating across teams.
• Support staff in editing and developing training content in PowerPoint, and usage of Canva types of visual making tools. This includes supporting our team in brainstorming approaches, editing content, and developing training materials in PowerPoint or other adult learning platforms as needed.
• Collaborate with Leadership and Policy staff to ensure rigor and consistency of our materials and voice across written documents.
• Write program reports in easy-to-understand language.
• Ensure deliverables and program activities are on track using project management workflows including developing comprehensive summaries and work plans using project management tools, Word, and Excel.
• Track time, plan work, and provide updates to senior leadership and key stakeholders in accordance with the firm’s workflows.
• Administrative functions such as note-taking, scheduling, and coordinating internal/external schedules, and developing and planning meeting agendas.
• Provide infrastructural support and capacity building to the leadership of the firm including work planning; implementation planning; identification of training needs; and developing forms, processes, Excel tracking documents, workflows, and other processes to support operations.
• Identify and elevate best practices, trends, and program issues to senior management in an organized way.
• Some travel is required. Up to 10% in-state annually.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum qualifications include:

• Excellent communication skills: the ability to speak and write clearly in communications to internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated track record of prioritizing multiple projects in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Understanding of health programs and policies.

Transform Health, LLC is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We value our employees for their unique talents and abilities. We embrace and encourage our employee’s differences in backgrounds, experiences, race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, family or marital status, physical, mental and/or intellectual abilities, age, military or veteran status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, political affiliation, and socio-economic status. All employees are valued for their individual differences and the unique contributions that help us achieve our business goals.