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The New Bedford Health Department is committed to promoting healthy lifestyles and health equity, preventing, and responding to disease, and ensuring safe and sanitary environments that protect our diverse, multicultural community through services, outreach, and regulations. The Program Director for Special Programs and Grants is a member of the Leadership Team and will serve as the central point of contact for externally funded programs and grants. This role will oversee the planning, coordination, and implementation of a broad range of programs and grants related to the 10 essential public health services. In part of this role, the Program Director is responsible for researching, preparing, submitting, and management of grant proposals/reports that support the New Bedford Health Department?s goals and meet funder guidelines and criteria. The ideal candidate has experience in the following competencies: personnel management, research and grant writing, managing stakeholder relationships, implementing programs with varying interdisciplinary models, engagement in evaluation, policy, and compliance reporting, program management with an emphasis on outcome measurements and advocacy.