Rural Health Transformation, Senior Coordinat in Jersey City, New Jersey at Liberty Science Center

This position is ideal for a highly organized, proactive professional who enjoys managing multiple priorities, coordinating complex projects, and working across diverse stakeholder groups to improve healthcare delivery. The Senior Coordinator will report to the Rural Health Program Manager and work collaboratively with the Senior Director and SciTech Scity team. This position requires travel throughout the State of New Jersey, with a significant portion of travel taking place in South Jersey.

*This is a grant-funded position with current funding secured for a four-year period. Continued employment is contingent upon the ongoing availability of grant funds.

What You’ll Bring
You are passionate about improving healthcare access and outcomes for rural and underserved communities and enjoy helping innovative ideas become operational realities.

You are highly organized, detail-oriented, and thrive in environments where multiple initiatives move simultaneously. You enjoy coordinating people, solving problems, and keeping projects on track. You're comfortable communicating with clinicians, startup founders, government partners, and community organizations, and you take pride in building strong working relationships.

You are proactive, dependable, and adaptable, with excellent organizational skills and a willingness to take ownership of projects while supporting a collaborative team.

What You’ll Do
The Senior Coordinator’s responsibilities will vary depending on the needs of the business but will focus on some combination of the following essential functions.

• Support day-to-day execution of multiple Rural Health Transformation initiatives, ensuring project activities remain on schedule and stakeholders are informed.

• Support development and maintenance of project plans, implementation timelines, meeting agendas, and action trackers.

• Coordinate meetings, follow-up items, and communication among health systems, technology partners, community organizations, and internal teams.

• Maintain project documentation, implementation dashboards, and status reports.

• Proactively identify project risks and escalate issues to program leadership.

• Support vendor onboarding, procurement documentation, contract routing, and implementation logistics in coordination with internal teams.

• Prepare meeting materials, track action items, coordinate follow-up activities, and support communications for meetings with the New Jersey Department of Human Services and other government partners.

• Coordinate travel, site visits, implementation schedules, training logistics, and meeting logistics for project teams and external partners.

• Lead communication with clinical leaders, operational teams, community organizations, and external partners.

• Assist with onboarding, scheduling, training coordination, and implementation logistics.

• Help build and maintain strong relationships with participating organizations throughout implementation.

• Prepare presentations, executive briefings, meeting materials, and reports.

• Track project milestones, deliverables, budgets, invoices, procurement activities, and grant reporting requirements.

• Facilitate cross-functional meetings, workshops, and collaborative working sessions.

• Support grant administration, reporting, and documentation activities.

• Maintain organized project documentation, stakeholder contact databases, implementation records, and document repositories.

• Maintain implementation dashboards and project management tools to support reporting and coordination across multiple initiatives.

• Conduct background research to support implementation planning, partner engagement, funding opportunities, and evaluation activities.

• Assist with implementation readiness assessments and solution evaluations.

• Collect and organize qualitative and quantitative implementation data.

• Help document lessons learned, best practices, and implementation resources.

• Assist with developing partner communications, newsletters, and program updates.

• Coordinate logistics for site visits, events, and stakeholder convenings.

• Support outreach to prospective partners and maintain stakeholder engagement materials.

• Contribute to development of implementation playbooks, templates, and operational resources.

• Bachelor's degree required.

• A valid driver's license is required. Candidates must have reliable access to a vehicle to support regular travel to partner sites.

• 3–5 years of professional experience in healthcare, project coordination, nonprofit management, consulting, public health, research, startups, or a related field.

• Experience supporting grant-funded programs, government initiatives, healthcare implementation, or multi-organizational collaborations preferred.

Desired Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities (KSAs)

• Working knowledge of U.S. healthcare landscape, including innovation trends, regulatory frameworks, and payment models

• Ability to work collaboratively with a team and manage multiple priorities at once

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging for diverse stakeholders including clinicians, executives, startups, and policymakers

Physical & Environmental Considerations

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for prolonged periods of the work day while working at a desk and on a laptop

• Must be comfortable working in open office environment in close proximity to others and that has a moderate noise level

SciTech Scity may make reasonable accommodations to enable qualified individuals with a disability to perform the essential functions of the job to the extent that SciTech Scity may do so without undue hardship.

About SciTech Scity
Liberty Science Center is developing a “Science City of Tomorrow” in Jersey City—a 30-acre innovation campus called SciTech Scity devoted to using science and technology to address humanity’s greatest challenges, from inadequate healthcare to climate change, and create a better future for all of us. The new campus, including the existing Liberty Science Center, home of the largest planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, will be officially named the Frank J. Guarini Innovation Campus. It is scheduled to open in 2026.

Classification, Location, & Schedule
This is a full-time, exempt position under the FLSA overtime provisions. The role follows a hybrid schedule, with a minimum of two days per week on-site in Jersey City and additional on-site days as needed based on business requirements.

This position requires travel to partner sites throughout New Jersey. Early mornings, evenings, and weekends may be required depending on project needs.

Compensation & Benefits
The base compensation for this role is $60,000-$70,000. The final salary offer will be commensurate with abilities, education, certifications, and experience. In addition to compensation for salary, you will receive compensation in the form of generous benefits, including, but not limited to:

• Medical, dental, life, vision, and pet insurance

• 403(b) defined contribution retirement plan with an outstanding employer match

• Considerable paid time off, including annual leave, sick leave, and federal holidays

• Long-term disability coverage

• Flexible spending accounts (pre-tax income for eligible health and/or dependent care expenses)

• Commuter benefits (pre-tax income for parking or mass transit expenses)

• Free parking

• On-site store discount

• On-site cafeteria discount

• A Liberty Science Center membership

To Apply:
Please submit a cover letter and resume highlighting why this role and this organization are a good fit for you.