[Hiring] Project Coordinator @Metas Solutions

Role Description

Metas Solutions is seeking a highly organized, collaborative, and proactive Project Coordinator to support the CDC Actionable Data Branch (ADB) Branch Operations and Project Support. The initial focus will be coordinating the 1CDP Foundational Data initiative, with additional support for other priority projects and branch operations as assigned. The Project Coordinator will organize work across teams, track milestones and dependencies, facilitate stakeholder engagement, and help leadership move priorities through completion.

The successful candidate will work across data management, engineering, programs, and stakeholder teams to coordinate the lifecycle of foundational data assets - from planning and stewardship through documentation, governance review, and publication to the 1CDP (Palantir Foundry) Data Marketplace. This position requires a strong self-starter who can manage multiple priorities, build productive partnerships, maintain organized project information, communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and ensure activities move forward to completion.

The role is particularly well suited for an individual who combines demonstrated project coordination and leadership skills with an understanding of public health programs and data. The successful candidate can independently organize complex work, build productive relationships, and maintain progress across teams with different responsibilities and priorities.

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.
• Demonstrated understanding of public health or healthcare programs and the role of data in supporting their objectives.
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate meetings and working sessions.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to build collaborative working relationships across organizational and functional boundaries.
• Demonstrated initiative and ability to identify what needs to be done.
• Ability to understand and communicate data-related workflows, dependencies, and terminology.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the required federal background investigation/Public Trust.

Requirements

• Coordinate day-to-day activities supporting the 1CDP Foundational Data portfolio.
• Track foundational datasets and data bundles through development, review, approval, and publication activities.
• Coordinate activities across ADB leadership, Data Management, Engineering, Communications, 1CDP, data owners, and other CDC partners.
• Organize and facilitate project meetings and working sessions.
• Identify potential schedule, dependency, resource, or coordination issues.
• Develop concise project status updates, dashboards, metrics, and briefing materials.
• Coordinate with designated data stewards and technical teams to track documentation, metadata, data quality review, versioning, governance approvals, and publication readiness.
• Support coordination of datasets through applicable review and governance processes.
• Maintain organized inventories of datasets, data bundles, documentation, ownership/stewardship information, publication status, and related artifacts.
• Help establish repeatable processes, templates, and workflows.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships across ADB, OPHDST, 1CDP, CDC programs, data owners, data stewards, and technical teams.
• Facilitate stakeholder discussions to support business needs analysis.
• Coordinate communications regarding foundational data availability, publication status, milestones, changes, and upcoming activities.
• Capture stakeholder feedback, requirements, decisions, and commitments.
• Maintain accurate, accessible, and well-organized project documentation.
• Identify opportunities to improve project coordination, data stewardship, governance, publishing, and information-management processes.

Benefits

• Market competitive salary, commensurate with experience and education.
• Comprehensive benefits package available, including Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance.
• Paid Time Off (PTO).
• 401K with company match.
• Growth and promotion opportunities.

Security Requirements

• Must be US Citizen OR with the ability to obtain a US Government security clearance (Public Trust 5) within a reasonable period.