Program Manager - Dana Center

Mission Driven Community Focused

Charles R. Drew University is located in the Watts-Willowbrook area of south Los Angeles and was founded in 1966 in the wake of the Watts uprising. CDU was founded to address inadequate medical care in the region and to provide equitable medical education opportunities for underrepresented students.

CDU is strongly invested in the local and regional community. The university leads multiple partnerships and programs to provide equitable healthcare resources in a variety of south Los Angeles neighborhoods.

Job Summary:

The Center for the Healing Arts in Medicine (CHAM) an initiative within the Department of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine at CDU seeks to improve the quality of life and health of the population living in South LA through developing arts-based initiatives. The Program Manager for this initiative will be responsible for the planning implementation evaluation and continuous quality improvement of the Centers initiatives working collaboratively with the UCLA-CDU Dana Center team domiciled at UCLA. This is necessary to ensure that Center goals and objectives across both institutions are aligned and achieved. The Program Manager will also be responsible for working collaboratively with the Departments Psychiatry Program Manager / Department Administrator and other department leadership to ensure that all CHAMs activities are integrated with the general psychiatry departments vision mission and strategic objectives of teaching research and service. In so doing the Program Manager will be responsible for supporting other departmental grant proposal efforts from development through implementation.

The Program Manager must be experienced in navigating large complex organizations systems possessing strong day-to-day management process-building and systems coordination skills. Additionally the Program Manager must have exceptional interpersonal and team-building skills with both internal and external customers. A deep passion for community engagement and partnership is mission critical to this position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with the Department and UCLA-CDU Dana Center leadership in the development of the workplans strategic planning and implementation of programmatic activities for CHAM.
• Monitors and reports (orally and in writing) on the progress of programmatic goals and objectives.
• Collaborates on budgetary management with the Dana Center Administrator and CDU Department Administrator / Program Manager.
• Works collaboratively with the Department Program Manager / Administrator to assure that all activities of CHAM are fully integrated into the wider / broader departmental efforts.
• Tracks the fulfillment of the CHAMs external metrics deadlines.
• Coordinates and manages CHAMs community events and training events- this could include weekends and evenings as needed.
• Manages the CHAM fellows activities including but not limited to school-based high school mentorship activities.
• Manages program related site visits from colleagues at the UCLA site and Dana Foundation Program Officer.
• Coordinates travel to meetings and conferences for co-PIs and Directors.
• Initiates budget planning activities with Program/Finance Manager and is the primary processor for eRequests and expenses for the UCLA-CDU Subaward account.
• Maintains adequate filing system hard copy and electronic so that information can be quickly retrieved.

Daily Responsibilities:

• Organizes prioritizes and supervises the activities of the UCLA CDU Dana Center domiciled at CDU.
• Monitors work progress status and ensure compliance with deadlines.
• Regularly reports project status to department leadership and other UCLA-Dana Center staff.
• Plans schedules and leads meetings necessary for achievement of project deliverables.

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION:

• Masters degree and at least 1 year of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.
• Completed degree(s) from an accredited institution that are above the minimum education requirement may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis.

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of 1 year management-level experience in the administration of public health / population-based initiatives.

KNOWLEDGE/ABILITIES/SKILLS:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.
• Knowledge and understanding of population-level interventions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to present information effectively to groups.
• Knowledge of communication principles media and marketing techniques.
• Skill in organizing resources and establishing priorities.
• Ability to develop and implement strategic plans.
• Ability to use project management software to document and track performance.
• Ability to develop successful collaborative relationships at all levels within the organization.
• Ability to foster a cooperative work environment.
• Advanced analytical evaluative and objective critical thinking skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of public health practices principles policies regulations and procedures.
• Administrative planning and leadership skills.
• Knowledge of budgeting and fiscal management systems and processes.
• Demonstrated leadership skills in the development and implementation of community-partnered public health initiatives.

COMPLEXITY:

• The ability to perform detailed work with sustained attention and care while providing/obtaining information on numerous inquiries is paramount to success in this position.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• 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.
• Occasional stooping. Frequent standing. Constant walking sitting climbing reaching high/low levels finger movement feeling speaking clearly hearing conversationally and seeing far and near.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• The position is on site unless specific authorization from manager.
• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Occasionally required to work in confined space.

MENTAL DEMANDS:

• The mental 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.
• Frequent variety of unrelated tasks. Constant calculating interrupted work a variety of interrelated tasks and use of sustained concentration reasoning judgment resourcefulness analytical ability and ingenuity.

Special Requirements:

• As a health professions institution of higher education Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science seeks to protect the health and safety of the University community. As a condition of enrollment and employment students faculty and staff must comply with the current CDU COVID-19 requirements as described on the CDU COVID-19 webpage. Please visit the CDU Return to Campus website or email the Campus Nursing Office at
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse community.

Compensation:

• $75000 - $85000 annually

Position Status:

• Full Time

Work Location:

• On-site

Conditional Statement: The employment status of this position is classified as Conditional. Conditional employment means that the job exists contingent upon continued funding and limitations of restricted funds or the duration of a specific program project grant or contract. Since this position is funded by UCLA-CDU Dana Ctr of Neuroscience Society-914 End Date: 11/30/25 this position is contingent upon the continued receipt of these funds. Continuation of this position is dependent in part upon funding availability. Furthermore no work may be performed after the grant end date(s) unless the position receives an extension in writing from a Dean Division VP or Human Resources.

EEO Statement: Charles R. Drew University is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity. Applicants will be considered without regard to gender race age color religion national origin sexual orientation genetic information marital status disability or covered veteran status.

Fair Chance Statement: Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science will consider qualified applicants including those with criminal histories in a manner consistent with state and local Fair Chance laws.

Required Experience:

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