Sr Clinical Program Manager, Oral/Dental Health Screenings,

Position Title:                  Senior Clinical Program Manager, Oral/Dental Health Screenings

Location:                          SOI – Headquarters, Washington, DC (hybrid; 2-3 days/week in Washington DC office)

Department:                   Health 

Reports to:                       Director, Healthy Athletes Program

 

Description:

Special Olympics Inc. (SOI) is an international NGO serving over 5 million people with intellectual disabilities (ID) in 193 countries. While best known for it’s sports opportunities, SOI offers a vast array of health interventions and collects and maintains the largest database on the health of people with intellectual disabilities in the world. Health interventions include Healthy Athletes (health care delivery), Healthy Communities (community-based health care, health promotion and prevention-, Young Athletes (early childhood intervention), Health Messengers (training and activating people with intellectual disabilities to be health advocates), training of health professionals (reach of more than 130,000 since 2016) and more.

This is an incredible opportunity to be a part of the team that delivers Special Olympics’ highly acclaimed established Healthy Athletes health screening program. Healthy Athletes provides health screenings, education, services, and care at no charge to Special Olympics athletes while training the next generation of health care providers on inclusion. Over the past 20 years, Healthy Athletes has delivered over 2 million health screenings in 145 countries and trained more than 280,000 health professionals and students to treat people with intellectual disabilities. The Senior Clinical Program Manager position oversees health screenings, in particular Special Smiles (oral/dental health) programming for Special Olympics. This position provides the opportunity to work with a team of health program managers, healthcare consultants, and a global network of health professional volunteers in operationalizing and implementing this volunteer-run health care screening and delivery and ongoing prevention programming throughout the world. This position is also responsible for providing technical assistance in oral health to the Healthy Communities program, a year-round, community- based health and wellness program that targets athletes, athlete leaders, coaches, families, and community organizations, as well as Special Olympics Programs themselves.

Responsibilities

• Assume overall responsibility for the global strategic and operational management of the SOI oral/dental health screening program, Special Smiles.
• Oversee implementation of Special Smile’s health screenings, including the following:
• Administer capacity grants (review, approve and monitor grants and post-event reports) to fund country-level in-person and virtual health screenings;
• Organize and provide training of new volunteer providers and country-level Clinical Directors
• Maintain current, evidence-based training resources for volunteers and Clinical Directors
• Ensure efficient management of global supply chain of equipment and services needed to carry out screenings
• Serve as point of contact for domestic and international programs for all services related to Special Smiles
• Continually modernize and standardize screening protocols to ensure that they reflect the latest evidence-based practices
• Coordinate screening activities and assist with events management at the Regional and World Games level;
• Develop and implement quality improvement plan to set and adhere to metrics, to ensure high-quality services, and evaluations for oral health screenings
• Compile reports and statistics on reach and impact of screenings
• Identify and develop relationships with health care partners to serve as community referral and care coordination resources. Develop, maintain, and manage referral resource directory.
• Develop relationships with health care partners to increase financial resources for the program (e.g., in kind goods and services)
• Directly collaborate with a team of global consultants who provide clinical expertise to screenings
• Develop relationships with relevant professional associations and organizations supporting oral/dental health initiatives for people with IDD
• Represent SOI on oral health topics for people with IDD with external stakeholders

 Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree or clinical licensure in relevant field (e.g. nursing, dental hygiene, health administration, public health, international development, ) with at least 3 years of experience in the field of program operations or public health;
• 3-5 years of demonstrat