Project Assistant

Equal Opportunity Employer

The mission of the Health Federation of Philadelphia is to promote health equity for marginalized communities by advancing access to high-quality, integrated, and comprehensive health and human services.  Health equity is at the heart of all our work. We believe in and are firmly committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and applicants. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, religion, disability, sex or gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, military or veteran status.  This commitment applies to all aspects of the Health Federation of Philadelphia’s employment practices, including recruiting, hiring, training, and promotion.

JOB SUMMARY 

The Health Federation seeks a qualified, reliable, and detail-oriented individual with a background in community health, relationship-building and project support to serve in this Full-Time position. 

The Project Assistant will work with the Integrated Peer Models for Health (IPMH) team on a program funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services. This program supports capacity-building within the North Philadelphia Health Enterprise Zone (HEZ) to benefit populations facing multiple barriers to health and wellbeing, including mental health, and/or substance use challenges, social drivers of health, and chronic disease. 

The Project Assistant will play a supportive role on the IPMH team and will primarily work with two components of the program: Connect4health.org, a resource and referral platform and our Peer Models for Health Learning Collaboratives, a professional development-focused community for Community Health Workers/Peer Professionals and their supervisors. 

To be successful, this individual must be very organized and a confident communicator who is skilled in written and verbal communication. This individual must be a reliable and consistent team member who is collaborative, eager to learn, and adept at using new technologies. The most successful candidate will also have experience working in direct-service community health roles in clinical or community-based settings. 

JOB SPECIFICATIONS 

Responsibilities/Duties 

Learning Collaborative (50%) 

● Attend, participate in, and support learning collaborative in-person and virtual sessions Support activities include keeping attendance and monitoring the chat during virtual sessions. 

● Manage learning collaborative session registration and evaluation processes: Create and send out registration forms, evaluations, and participation certificates, as well as timely emails to participants ahead of and following learning collaborative sessions. 

● Ensure learning collaborative participant list is kept up-to-date and accurately track participation ● Interview new learning collaborative members and advisory board applicants ● Work with Program Manager to coordinate and facilitate Learning Collaborative Advisory Board