New

Project Policy Analyst

University of California - Los Angeles Health
United States, California, Los Angeles
Dec 03, 2024
Description The Department of Medicine is seeking an experienced Project Policy Analyst to lead critical initiatives for the All Children Thrive (ACT) data team. In this role, you will translate high-level project strategies into actionable goals and oversee their successful implementation. This includes managing the hiring, training, and supervision of data team members, ensuring the delivery of innovative and impactful solutions. You will also play a key role in building and maintaining partnerships with national and local experts, as well as high-ranking elected and appointed officials. You will provide expert consultations to ACT-funded projects on community data needs, lead the development of data tools and visualizations, and coordinate technical assistance with ACT coaches and other team leaders. Additionally, this position involves planning and facilitating high-impact meetings, conferences, workshops, and webinars to drive engagement and collaboration. This is a unique opportunity for a strategic and innovative leader to make a significant impact on public health and community well-being through ACT's mission-driven work. Annual range: $68,800-$141,000 Qualifications Required: Bachelor's degree or 4-5 years of experience required. Ability to work independently and also have interpersonal skills to work with teams. Exceptional writing skills to produce wide range of documents and deliverables. Experience communicating effectively and professionally and working with a variety of internal and external partners, including UCLA administrators, outside funders, policy makers and community representatives. Strong organizational skills to successfully work on and track complex programs involving short deadlines and multiple tasks, in coordination with multiple teams to achieve program/project mission and goals. Working knowledge of program/project development, evaluation, creating datasets, financial management and reporting, research principles including CITI training, grant writing and proposal submission, University procedures and policies, program/project related federal and state regulations. Ability to seek out and learn new policies, procedures, and software to advance the mission of the program/project. Ability to train new program/project managers and other staff within and external to the unit. Preferred: Master's degree or 2-3 years of experience.