Summary: This position leads capacity building activities that strengthen overdose preparedness among state and territorial health agencies. The Senior Analyst manages complex projects, facilitates learning opportunities, provides technical assistance, develops practical resources, and collaborates with jurisdictions, federal partners, consultants, and internal ASTHO teams to strengthen public health preparedness and response capacity.
Location: Remote
Anticipated salary: $79,200.00
Principal Functions:
Capacity Building & Technical Assistance
- Leads capacity building initiatives that strengthen jurisdictional preparedness for overdose related events
- Designs and facilitates learning opportunities, workshops, peer learning activities, and technical assistance engagements
- Supports jurisdictions in applying preparedness frameworks, tools, and promising practices to strengthen planning and response capacity
- Leads planning and implementation of learning cohorts and other capacity building initiatives that support jurisdictions in strengthening overdose preparedness and response
- Facilitates cohort sessions, workshops, and other collaborative learning activities that support peer exchange, application of preparedness practices, and jurisdictional implementation
Project Leadership & Implementation
- Leads planning, facilitation, implementation, and coordination of assigned project activities
- Develops workplans, agendas, facilitation guides, presentations, resources, and other project deliverables
- Coordinates project implementation with jurisdictions, consultants, subject matter experts, federal partners, and internal ASTHO teams
- Monitors project timelines, deliverables, and implementation progress to ensure successful completion of assigned activities
Resource and Product Development
- Leads development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of preparedness resources, implementation tools, templates, and other technical products
- Translates lessons learned, evaluation findings, and emerging practices into practical resources for state and territorial health agencies
- Supports dissemination of promising practices that strengthen overdose preparedness nationwide
Evaluation and Continuous Improvement
- Supports project evaluation activities by monitoring implementation progress, documenting lessons learned, and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement
- Prepares progress reports, summary reports, and other project deliverables
- Incorporates participant feedback and evaluation findings to strengthen future project activities and resources
Partnerships and Collaboration
- Builds and maintains collaborative relationships with jurisdictions, federal partners, consultants, and national organizations
- Represents ASTHO by facilitating meetings, workshops, conference sessions, and technical assistance engagements
- Collaborates across ASTHO teams to support successful project implementation and dissemination
Dissemination
- Contributes to conference presentations, publications, case studies, webinars, podcasts and other dissemination activities
- Promotes project resources and promising practices through national meetings, partner engagement, and other communication opportunities
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in public health, public policy, health administration, social sciences, or related field preferred
- Minimum 3 years of progressively responsible experience in public health, overdose prevention, substance use, injury prevention, emergency preparedness, or related field
- Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Experience designing and facilitating workshops, learning collaboratives, technical assistance activities, or other adult learning opportunities
- Experience developing public health resources, toolkits, guidance documents, presentations, or other technical products
- Experience building collaborative relationships with state, territorial, tribal, local, or national partners
- Knowledge of overdose prevention, substance use, public health preparedness, or related public health topics
- Experience supporting project evaluation, performance measurement, and preparation of project reports and other deliverables
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams and build productive relationships with internal and external partners
- Ability and willingness to travel a minimum of 5% and up to 10% of the time
Benefits:
- Vacation leave, Sick leave, Personal days
- 12 Holidays (with some floating options for personalization)
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Retirement Plans – 403B and Roth 403B, eligible employees can receive a company contribution up to 11.75%
- Electronic communication stipend
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Short and Long-term disability insurance
- Additional Benefits include: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Pet Insurance, Legal Resources, Health & Wellness reimbursement, Flexible Spending accounts, Tuition Reimbursement, and Professional Development Assistance
About Us: ASTHO is the national nonprofit organization representing the public health agencies of the United States, the U.S. territories and Freely Associated States, and the District of Columbia, as well as the more than 100,000 public health professionals these agencies employ. ASTHO members, the chief health officials of these jurisdictions, are dedicated to formulating and influencing sound public health policy and to ensuring excellence in public health practice. ASTHO is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, and was incorporated on March 23, 1942, with the goal of helping health officials navigate a rapidly changing public health landscape and remains a strong voice in governmental public health.
This position is contingent upon the availability of grant, contract, or organizational funding. Funding levels and organizational needs may impact the duration or continuation of employment.
