Public Health Evaluation Program Manager

Overview

Tanaq Management Services (TMS) provides professional, scientific, technical, and IT services to federal agencies across health, agriculture, technology, and other government service areas. It is a subsidiary of St. George Tanaq Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation focused on supporting federal customers while also contributing to the Tanaq native community and shareholders.

About the Role

Tanaq is looking for a Public Health Evaluation Program Manager to act as the main contact for contractual, technical, and administrative matters supporting the Translation, Health Education and Evaluation Branch (THEEB). THEEB turns public health science into practical action, evaluates the effect of public health programs, and shares health messages with partners in support of the Division of Diabetes Translation (DDT).

This role provides daily leadership, planning, coordination, and oversight of staff and deliverables. The position supports both regular operations and surge demands, with emphasis on evaluation planning and oversight, performance monitoring, continuous quality improvement, data extraction and management, advanced analytics, implementation of national and special evaluation studies for cooperative agreements, and sharing evaluation results.

This is a full-time hybrid remote position based in the United States, preferably in Atlanta, Georgia. Travel will be required for some site visits to complete assigned work. The role is contingent on contract award.

Responsibilities

• Oversee personnel management, including onboarding and completion of mandatory training.
• Lead evaluation oversight, recipient performance monitoring, technical assistance, and continuous quality improvement across DDT-funded contracts and cooperative agreements.
• Create and update evaluation plans, logic models, performance measurement frameworks, indicator matrices, and performance monitoring plans; align evaluation methods with funding requirements and DDT priorities; advise CDC staff on implementation research frameworks, study design, and measurement approaches.
• Provide continuous evaluation and performance-monitoring support to recipients and national partners; run recurring support calls; review APRs and other evaluation deliverables; share written feedback and corrective action recommendations; track compliance and emerging trends.
• Deliver evaluation technical assistance through webinars, recipient/partner tools and guidance, implementation assessment resources, meeting-content support, and responses to evaluation reporting questions.
• Take part in virtual and in-person monitoring visits, including about two in-person site visits unless otherwise directed; review background information; document findings; and recommend performance improvements.
• Spot performance gaps, review metrics and feedback, and guide structured improvement efforts using data-informed and implementation science-based methods; assist with corrective action plans, program revisions, SOP rollout, and documentation of lessons learned.
• Prepare routine and ad hoc evaluation reports, presentations, and briefing materials; review national evaluation products; support leadership briefings.
• Communicate performance and personnel concerns to the COR.
• Carry out additional duties as needed.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of project or program management experience in public health.
• Background leading an evaluation project or a national evaluation effort.
• Experience carrying out a national assessment of a program or project’s inputs, activities, and outputs to judge its value and improve results.
• Experience building a national evaluation plan, defining evaluation questions and indicators, collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, interpreting results in program context, and reporting conclusions.
• Experience creating a large-scale program logic model, identifying appropriate outcomes, facilitating internal and external partner meetings, and providing evaluation guidance or training.
• Experience using implementation research frameworks such as CFIR and RE-AIM and contributing to implementation-focused evaluations.
• Ability to combine qualitative and mixed-methods approaches to study implementation processes, barriers, and facilitators.
• Knowledge of rules, procedures, and principles governing intramural and extramural program development, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and SharePoint.
• Ability to prepare forms for CDC administrative systems, including Human Subjects, OMB, IRB, and E-Clearance.
• Prior experience working with government procedures and guidelines.
• Experience managing teams and supervising staff.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience at CDC or in a public health setting is preferred.
• Ability to obtain a government clearance.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future.
• Bachelor’s degree in public health or a related field is required, ideally with a focus on program evaluation, monitoring, or data analysis; a master’s degree, preferably an MPH, is strongly preferred.
• Physical demands include prolonged sitting and computer work, with occasional lifting of up to 25 pounds.

Additional Information

This role is contingent upon contract award. The employer is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristics under applicable law. The company complies with the Drug-free Workplace Act of 1988 and E-Verify.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, you may contact accommodation@tanaq.com. This email is only for accommodation requests and cannot be used to check application status.

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Who We Are

Tanaq Management Services is a public health contractor and certified 8(a) business owned by St. George Tanaq Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation. The organization listens to stakeholders and combines science, technology, communication, and program expertise to develop solutions and provide feedback.