As a Senior Partnerships Strategist at Lumina Corps, you will play a crucial role in leading partner engagements for a statewide public health data solutions initiative. This role is fully embedded within a project team that includes Lumina staff, client agency personnel, and other vendor partners. You will operate as a senior strategic voice on the team while also rolling up your sleeves to directly execute the work alongside your colleagues. We are looking for candidates for this role in advance of contract execution, and therefore it is listed as contingent.
What You'll Do:
- Partnership engagement: Lead strategic engagements with state and local partners to raise awareness and foster sustained support for adoption of new processes and tools. Plan and implement partner engagement strategy that aligns with overall product release plan. Work closely with public health SMEs and senior program leadership to identify potential partners, appropriate engagement tactics, and relevant key messages. Develop partner advocacy network with clear roles and responsibilities.
- Collaboration: Work as an integrated member of a multidisciplinary project team. Align partner engagement efforts with overall program change management activities (such as training delivery and piloting / onboarding of end users) and continually reinforce overarching program goals and vision.
- Communications: Uses strong presentation skills to convey program priorities and recommendations effectively to project team members, including other vendors, clients, and strategic partners. Facilitate discussions with high-level stakeholders to drive program planning, implementation, and evaluation.
- Materials Oversight: Manages the execution of materials development to support partner engagement, including presentations, talking points, and print/digital materials that project team members, including clients, will use in engagement activities. Oversee development and dissemination of partner toolkits, tailored to distinct audience segments.
Qualifications:
- Public Sector Expertise: Understanding of operations of state and local public health agencies and public sector data modernization policies.
- Engagement Skills: Ability to facilitate the exchange of ideas between partners and clients to ensure successful adoption of processes and tools.
- Evaluation Experience: Experience evaluating partner engagement programs and using insights to iteratively evolve and improve effectiveness.
- Client Relations Skills: Experience collaborating closely with clients to offer strategic guidance in partner engagement and facilitate complex decisions.
- Facilitator Skills: Strong facilitator, comfortable working in ambiguity and evolving environments and who can hold productive space between differing perspectives.
- Professional Qualities: Excellent attention to detail, multitasking, prioritizing, and independent working abilities.
- Mindset: A continuous improvement mindset, adaptable to various tasks and ways of working. Equally comfortable setting strategic direction and personally executing the day-to-day work needed to move the project forward.
Education and Experience
- Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in communications, public health, public administration, or a related field, with Master’s degree as a plus.
Experience: Minimum 7 years of experience, at least 2 years experience advising on large scale projects and programs impacting public health practice. Preferred experience supporting public sector data modernization initiatives, engaging advisory teams of state and local government staff, and using partnership management software tools such as Airtable or Smartsheet.
Core Values
Lumina employees are expected to uphold these values in their everyday work and interactions with colleagues and clients:
- Illuminate new ideas
- Serve the big purpose
- Communicate with understanding
- Commit to quality
- Own your part
- Embrace inclusivity
Lumina Corps is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, age, or other legally protected characteristics.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in communications, public health, public administration, or related field
- Minimum 7 years of experience, with at least 2 years advising on large scale public health projects
- Preferred experience in public sector data modernization initiatives
- Experience with partnership management software tools such as Airtable or Smartsheet
What We Do
Lumina Corps was formed with the purpose of bringing effective, best-in-class communications, research strategies and program support to organizations whose missions inspire us. We are formerly NOVA Research, a firm with a rich, 35-year history serving the biomedical communications, research, and events management needs of health and science agencies.
