AmeriCorps Project Manager - hybrid

This temporary position will manage the AmeriCorps planning grant from September 2024-July 2025. Cherry Health is seeking a highly organized and strategic Project Manager to lead a critical planning grant focused on expanding AmeriCorps services at Cherry Health. This role will manage all activities related to the planning grant, which aims to enhance workforce/career development, capacity building, and direct service initiatives to address the most pressing challenges facing our health center. The Project Manager will be responsible for designing an AmeriCorps program, developing an operational grant application, and ensuring alignment with Cherry Health's strategic goals.

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Who we are:

Cherry Health, Michigan’s largest Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), operates in six counties across the state, is based in Grand Rapids. With a team of more than 800 health care professionals at 20 locations, Cherry Health focuses on removing barriers, expanding access, and delivering comprehensive quality health care services to underserved communities, regardless of an individual’s insurance status or ability to pay. We provide primary care, dental, vision, behavioral health, pharmacy services, substance abuse services, school based health centers and more.

Our Mission: 

Cherry Health improves the health and wellness of individuals by providing comprehensive primary and behavioral health care while encouraging access by those who are underserved.

Our Vision: 

Our community will be healthier because we will seek out and welcome those who need our services. All will be treated as family with integrated, coordinated care to improve health and personal well-being.

Our Values:

• Collaboration – Support the Cherry Health mission by encouraging teamwork to accomplish organizational goals.
• Customer Service – Serve internal and external customers in a welcoming manner with compassionate care.
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion – Build a stronger culture through treating all patients and staff with respect, dignity and compassion.
• Innovation – Embrace creativity to improve patient care and workplace efficiency while remaining curious and open to learning.
• Integrity – Uphold the highest ethical standards by being honest and trustworthy.
• Professionalism – Create a positive work environment where we care accountable for our decision, our action and the results.

Requirements: 

• Bachelors degree in public health, social work, non-profit administration, or similar required.
• 3-5 years experience in health care, non-profit, or related required.
• Prior experience in AmeriCorps preferred.

Responsibilities:

Project Management:

• • Develop and execute a detailed project plan following the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) model.
  • Coordinate with Cherry Health staff, external consultants, local organizations, and community members to gather data, identify pressing issues, and propose solutions.
  • Ensure timely completion of all project milestones, including the development of career paths, capacity-building initiatives, and direct service expansion.

Program Design and Development:

• • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to define the scope of new AmeriCorps services, focusing on workforce development (e.g., medical assistants, Spanish-speaking staff).
  • Explore the use of VISTA and NCCC programs to enhance capacity building and support projects such as the opening of a new housing facility

• • Develop a theory of change and logic model to guide the operational grant application.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• • Engage with AmeriCorps agency resources, the Michigan Community Service Commission (MCSC), and other relevant bodies to inform program design.
  • Coordinate with consultants to integrate best practices, evidence-based interventions, and Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) principles into the program.

Data Collection and Analysis:

• • Develop and implement tools for data collection and analysis, ensuring that the data is high-quality and aligned with program objectives.
  • Work with consultants to improve current data collection processes and i