ThinkWell is a global health strategy and implementation organization committed to improving health system performance in complex environments. We combine deep technical expertise in health financing, primary health care, and monitoring and evaluation with pragmatic implementation support to help governments and their partners achieve better health outcomes. In the United States, ThinkWell applies this same systems-strengthening approach to domestic public health challenges—partnering with state and federal agencies to design, implement, and evaluate transformative programs.
About the Role
ThinkWell seeks a highly organized, entrepreneurial, and impact-oriented Project Manager to support our engagement on the Delaware Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP)—a landmark federal initiative funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) supporting up to $1 billion in rural health investment over five years. The RHTP aims to transform health care delivery across rural Sussex and Kent Counties, Delaware, through 15 coordinated initiatives spanning crisis stabilization, behavioral health integration, primary care redesign, workforce development, and community-based prevention.
The Project Manager will serve as ThinkWell’s primary managerial lead for this engagement and the main point of contact with the state of Delaware’s 15 RHTP subrecipients. This role sits at the intersection of grant compliance, multi-stakeholder coordination, and monitoring and evaluation, with direct exposure to a diverse ecosystem of rural health system partners.
Position Details
Reports To: Director, Delaware Rural Health Transformation Program
Location: Remote – United States (Delaware or DC metro area preferred)
Employment Type: Full-Time, Exempt, This position is contingent upon funding.
Travel: Up to 10% (Delaware site visits and stakeholder meetings)
Responsibilities
- Support program coordination across 15 RHTP initiatives, ensuring alignment of activities, timelines, and deliverables
- Plan and schedule regular virtual and in person meetings, and support knowledge sharing among subrecipients
- Serve as the day-to-day primary point of contact for subrecipients on day-to-day matters, offering guidance on contract management, compliance, and reporting requirements
- Compile consolidated quarterly and annual program data from subrecipients; draft reports that summarize program achievements, challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations for program improvement and sustainability.
- Provide quality assurance (QA) and validation checks on data entered into program tracking systems to ensure accuracy, completeness, and alignment with CMS reporting requirements.
- Monitor 15 subgrantees’ performance and budget adherence, including monitoring progress against deliverables and conducting subrecipient site reviews.
- Conduct periodic audits to ensure alignment with project goals and approved budgets across all 15 RHTP initiatives.
- Assist monitoring and evaluation team to ensure that program outputs—including dashboards, reports, and summaries—are clear, accessible, and health-literate for public-facing use.
- Complete other duties as assigned in support of the RHTP and ThinkWell’s domestic health portfolio.
Requirements
Required
- Bachelors degree required. Master’s degree in public policy (MPP), public health (MPH), health administration, or a closely related field or equivalent experience preferred.
- 3-5 years of progressive responsibility in project management.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder workplans, budgets, and deliverable timelines simultaneously.
- Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to travel up to 20% for Delaware site visits and stakeholder engagements.
Preferred
- Experience working with state or federal contracts/grants, with a preference for CMS or other HHS agency programs.
- Experience with rural health initiatives, clinical workforce capacity building, health IT, food is medicine, community health centers, practice transformation and/or behavioral health
- Familiarity with the Delaware health and human services landscape, including DPH, DHSS, or Delaware-based health systems.
- Experience using performance management or strategy execution platforms (e.g., AchieveIt) a plus.
- Background in monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) in a public health context.
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