Foundational Data Project Coordinator – Public Health

Metas Solutions; Myrtle Point (OR); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Metas Solutions is seeking a highly organized Project Coordinator to support the CDC Actionable Data Branch. You will coordinate the lifecycle of foundational data assets from planning through publication to the 1CDP Data Marketplace, engaging data stewards, engineering, and program teams.

The role requires strong self-starting, excellent communication, and the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining organized project information and timely delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in public health, health informatics, information systems, data management, business administration, project management, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience coordinating projects or programs across multiple teams, including responsibility for organizing work, managing dependencies, facilitating decisions, and driving deliverables through completion.
• Demonstrated understanding of public health or healthcare programs and the role of data in supporting their objectives, gained through professional experience, education, or comparable work.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple concurrent activities, priorities, stakeholders, and deadlines.
• Experience maintaining project plans, schedules, trackers, action items, risks/issues, decisions, and project documentation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate meetings and working sessions and translate discussions into clear decisions, actions, owners, and next steps.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with demonstrated ability to independently manage work through completion.
• Ability to build collaborative working relationships across organizational and functional boundaries.
• Demonstrated initiative and ability to identify what needs to be done, organize the work, and proactively move activities forward.
• Ability to understand and communicate data-related workflows, dependencies, and terminology sufficiently to coordinate work among public health, data management, engineering, and platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day activities supporting the 1CDP Foundational Data portfolio, including project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and action items.
• Track foundational datasets and data bundles through development, review, approval, and publication activities, maintaining visibility into status, ownership, dependencies, and next steps.
• Coordinate activities across ADB leadership, Data Management, Engineering, Communications, 1CDP, data owners, and other CDC partners, clarifying responsibilities, dependencies, and handoffs to support timely delivery of foundational data products.
• Organize and facilitate project meetings and working sessions; prepare agendas and materials, document decisions and action items, and drive follow-up through completion.
• Identify potential schedule, dependency, resource, or coordination issues and proactively work with project leadership and stakeholders to resolve or elevate them.
• Develop concise project status updates, dashboards, metrics, and briefing materials for project and ADB leadership.

Skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Meeting facilitation

Cross-functional coordination

Public health familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in public health or related field

Tools

SQL

Python

Palantir Foundry

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Metas Solutions is seeking a highly organized Project Coordinator to support the CDC Actionable Data Branch. You will coordinate the lifecycle of foundational data assets from planning through publication to the 1CDP Data Marketplace, engaging data stewards, engineering, and program teams.

The role requires strong self-starting, excellent communication, and the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining organized project information and timely delivery.