Health Program Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Specialist (Atlanta Remote Role)

ICF works at the forefront of todays public health issues helping clients improve health outcomes through evidence-based strategies capacity building stakeholder engagement and implementation support. Our work addresses complex public health challenges related to chronic disease prevention healthy communities health equity nutrition physical activity obesity prevention and population health improvement.

ICF seeks a Training and Technical Assistance Specialist to support capacity-building training technical assistance health communication and knowledge-sharing activities for CDCs Division of Nutrition Physical Activity and Obesity (DNPAO) and other public health clients. This work focuses on strengthening the capacity of state local tribal territorial and community-based organizations to plan implement and evaluate evidence-based health communication and health promotion strategies related to nutrition physical activity obesity prevention healthy communities and chronic disease prevention. The specialist will support communication-focused technical assistance training resource development and dissemination activities designed to improve public health practice and outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

In this role you will join a multidisciplinary team to coordinate deliver and support training and technical assistance activities. This includes assisting with recipient support development of resources and communication materials facilitation of learning opportunities website and resource-center support consultation support and project coordination activities.

The specialist will help public health recipients and partners strengthen their health communication capacity by supporting communication planning message development audience engagement dissemination of evidence-based resources and evaluation of communication activities. This role will support the delivery of communication-focused technical assistance and consultation provided through virtual and in-person interactions with recipients and partners.

The position requires strong organizational skills attention to detail initiative and the ability to collaborate effectively with project team members clients partners and public health practitioners.

Successful candidates should be eager to support innovative approaches to public health capacity building and continuous learning. Ideal candidates are organized flexible and skilled at translating public health information into practical resources and actionable guidance.

Candidates should have a background in public health health education community engagement health communication training and technical assistance program implementation or related fields. Experience supporting public health initiatives related to chronic disease prevention health promotion nutrition physical activity community health or health equity is desirable.

What Youll Be Doing (Responsibilities/Day-to-Day)

Primary responsibilities for this position will involve supporting training and technical assistance activities under the direction of senior project leadership.

• Support delivery of evidence- and practice-based health communication technical assistance training and consultation activities related to nutrition physical activity obesity prevention healthy communities health equity and chronic disease prevention.
• Assist with needs-assessment and recipient-engagement activities to identify challenges opportunities gaps and technical assistance needs among recipients and partners.
• Support recipients and partners in developing and implementing communication plans communication strategies messaging outreach materials and related public health communication activities.
• Support development and dissemination of practical tools resource guides communication materials templates and implementation supports for public health practitioners.
• Coordinate and support webinars workshops virtual trainings meetings peer exchanges communities of practice and other learning opportunities.
• Support technical assistance consultation requests by coordinating meetings preparing materials documenting recommendations and tracking follow-up activities. Technical assistance may be delivered through phone email video conference web conference or in-person meetings.
• Assist with review and quality improvement of communication plans implementation plans messaging outreach materials educational products and other communication resources developed by recipients and public health partners.
• Contribute to website and resource-center content development and maintenance.
• Support development and organization of resource libraries including conducting environmental scans and identifying promising practices and evidence-based resources.
• Contribute to literature reviews and synthesis of public health information.
• Coordinate meeting logistics scheduling communications materials development note-taking and action-item tracking.
• Support development of reports presentations briefs communication resources implementation supports and other written products.
• Assist with collection tracking analysis and reporting of technical assistance training educational-material and participant-satisfaction metrics.
• Contribute to evaluation and continuous quality-improvement activities.
• Ensure quality control and adherence to project timelines and deliverable requirements.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelors degree in public health health education public policy behavioral or social sciences nutrition exercise science communications or a related field.
• At least 2 years of professional experience supporting public health health education capacity building training and technical assistance community engagement health communication program implementation or related activities.

Additional Requirements

• Experience supporting meetings trainings webinars stakeholder-engagement activities or technical assistance projects.
• Experience applying adult-learning principles facilitation techniques instructional-design approaches health-education practices or related methods.
• Experience developing tools guidance documents communication materials training materials implementation resources or public health products.
• Experience supporting dissemination knowledge sharing resource development or recipient engagement activities.
• Experience with qualitative or quantitative data collection reporting and evaluation activities.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications including Word Excel PowerPoint Outlook and Teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to work independently and collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong technical writing and editing abilities.

Desired Requirements

• Experience reviewing developing adapting or disseminating public health communication products such as communication plans toolkits messaging guides educational materials campaign materials newsletters fact sheets or implementation resources.
• Experience supporting public health programs related to chronic disease prevention healthy communities nutrition physical activity obesity prevention health promotion or health equity.
• Experience supporting federally funded projects cooperative agreements or recipient-support activities.
• Experience working with state local tribal territorial nonprofit or community-based organizations.
• Experience supporting health communication health promotion public awareness social marketing dissemination or community-engagement initiatives.
• Familiarity with public health capacity-building technical-assistance or training approaches.

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