Senior Program Manager, Implementation & Strategy

Qualifications

• Master's degree in public health, social work, healthcare administration, health policy, behavioral health, or related field, and/or 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing public health, behavioral health, healthcare, tobacco control, TA, or health systems improvement initiatives.
• Knowledge of behavioral health and recovery systems and the policy, workforce, and service-delivery factors that drive systems change.
• Familiarity with tobacco/nicotine use and evidence-based tobacco use treatment, including integration into healthcare, behavioral health, and recovery settings.
• Applied experience designing and delivering technical assistance, capacity building, coaching, or training, and facilitating multidisciplinary or stakeholder groups.
• Strong project management skills across multiple partners, workstreams, and deliverables; excellent facilitation, presentation, and written/oral communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, and know when to escalate issues to leadership.
• Knowledge of implementation science, quality improvement, or performance management approaches, and staff supervision experience, preferred.
• Experience working with state/local government agencies, healthcare or behavioral health systems, or community-based and recovery organizations, preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and virtual TA/collaboration platforms.
• Willingness to travel approximately 15–20% annually, nationally and within New York State, for Leadership Academies, TA, and meetings.

Physical Demands

Compensation

• The salary range for this position is $85,000 - $97,000, depending on experience. CAI offers the following benefits:
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible spending Account (FSA)
• Dependent Care Account (DCA)
• Transit Reimbursement Account
• Life Insurance – company sponsored up to $50,000
• Long term disability (LTD)
• Short term disability (STD)
• 401K retirement plan after three (3) months of employment
• Semi-monthly payroll, the 15th and last day of each month
• Flexible and Hybrid work schedules
• Ability to work fully remotely up to 3 weeks each calendar year
• Vacation and Leave benefits:
• 11 Holidays per year
• 2 Floating holidays days year
• 12 Sick days per year
• 15 Vacation days per year for this role, increasing after 4 years of service
• 1 Cancer Screening Day per year
• Bereavement Leave
• Jury Duty Leave
• CAI is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.