Senior Program Manager, VIP Initiative
Summary
Leads strategy, operations, and compliance for Boston Public Health Commission's VIP Initiative: managing a network of community partner sites, contracts and reporting, program evaluation tools, and cross-neighborhood violence-prevention coordination. Day to day it is program management, community engagement, and administration in a public-health setting.
About the Role
The Senior Program Manager provides strategic, operational, and compliance leadership for the VIP Initiative, ensuring partner accountability, data integrity, and cross-neighborhood coordination in alignment with the Live Long and Well agenda. This role bridges community implementation with internal systems, managing a growing network of community partner sites while strengthening VIP's infrastructure across multiple funding streams.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead early development of a VIP Community Safety Plan, identifying service gaps and aligning prevention, intervention, stabilization, and healing strategies across neighborhoods
- Design and maintain program evaluation tools and standardized reporting templates to track engagement, outcomes, and long-term impact
- Manage contracts and compliance for community partner organizations, including vendor IDs, purchase orders, monthly reporting, and quarterly site visits
- Support strategic initiatives
- Support in facilitating quarterly cross-partner convenings and support incident response coordination
- Build and maintain relationships with community organizations, neighborhood leaders, and trusted local connectors
- Lead the VIP master calendar, tracking grant deadlines, reporting timelines, and community activations
- Provide technical assistance to organizations applying for VIP funding, including info sessions and office hours
- Support community resource mapping
- Produce VIP's monthly newsletter and community-facing outreach materials
- Organize community events and streamline internal systems and administrative processes