Senior Program Specialist, Healthy Aging - Partnerships

National Council on Aging, Inc.; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

National Council on Aging, Inc. (NCOA) in Arlington, VA, seeks a Senior Program Specialist, Healthy Aging, to lead and support health-promotion projects focused on falls prevention and clinical-community linkages.

You will manage onboarding, provide technical assistance, coordinate data collection, and help translate implementation into practical tools. The role emphasizes collaboration across the aging network, data-informed improvement, and dissemination of best practices with NCOA’s Research

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required with 3–5 years of relevant work experience; master’s preferred.
• Experience supporting multi-activity projects with internal teams and external partners.
• Experience providing/ supporting technical assistance, webinars, trainings, and learning communities.
• Experience with data collection, program monitoring, evaluation, and performance reporting.
• Ability to coordinate data collection, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support day-to-day activities, operations, documentation, resource development, and logistics for health promotion projects focused on falls prevention.
• Provide technical assistance to funded partners to strengthen program implementation.
• Coordinate data collection and evaluation activities with funded agencies and support related trainings.
• Develop SOPs, guides, templates, and other project resources.
• Collaborate with Communications to disseminate findings, resources, and best practices.
• Maintain project files using Asana, Zengine, and Teams; manage timelines and deliverables.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder engagement

Data-informed decision making

Communication and facilitation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in public health, gerontology, social science, health administration, communications, research, evaluation, or related field

Tools

Asana

Zengine

Microsoft Teams

Excel

Salesforce / grants management systems

Job description

National Council on Aging, Inc. (NCOA) in Arlington, VA, seeks a Senior Program Specialist, Healthy Aging, to lead and support health-promotion projects focused on falls prevention and clinical-community linkages.

You will manage onboarding, provide technical assistance, coordinate data collection, and help translate implementation into practical tools. The role emphasizes collaboration across the aging network, data-informed improvement, and dissemination of best practices with NCOA’s Research