Position Title: Rural Health Transformation Associate Director of Finance

Salary: $110k, depending on experience (plus benefits)

Position End Date: 6/30/2028

Location: Kentucky Department of Public Health (hybrid)

About the CDC Foundation

The CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations, and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the sole entity authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC’s critical health protection mission. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has launched approximately 1,000 programs and raised over $740 million. The CDC Foundation managed over 300 CDC-led programs in the United States and in more than 130 countries last year.

Overview:

The CDC Foundation is seeking a mission-driven and highly organized Associate Director of Finance to support the Kentucky Rural Health Transformation Program (RHT). The Kentucky RHT is a statewide initiative funded through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to transform healthcare delivery across rural Kentucky. The program operates across five interdependent initiatives — Rural Community Hubs, PoWER (perinatal health), Rapid Response to Recovery (behavioral health and crisis care), Rooted In Health (integrated/oral health), and Crisis To Care (community trauma care and EMS) — coordinated by a central program office. This role sits at the center of that coordination.

The RHT Associate Director of Finance provides leadership and oversight for financial compliance, reporting, and grant administration, ensuring adherence to federal and state requirements and the accuracy of program financial information. The RHT Associate Director of Finance leads a financial compliance team and collaborates with executive leadership, program teams, and partner divisions to manage financial reporting, contracts, budgets, and grant-related activities.

The ideal candidate brings grants and financial management expertise, strong knowledge of federal and state grant requirements and a demonstrated ability to lead complex financial compliance and reporting activities. They are a collaborative, detail-oriented leader who can communicate financial information to executive and programmatic audiences, and coordinate across diverse teams to ensure accurate reporting, sound fiscal management, and regulatory compliance.

Required Qualifications:

Minimum of five years’ of relevant experience as a grants administrator, preferably at the state level.
Ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment in a fast-paced, evolving program environment.
Understanding of federal and state grant financial regulations.
Experience in eMARS, the Kentucky Financial Reporting System.
Strong understanding of the federal grant reporting requirements, including FFRs.
Demonstrated leadership experience with the ability to effectively communicate with diverse workgroups, producing preferred results.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing executive-level materials.
Microsoft Office proficiency.

Preferred Qualifications:

A bachelor's degree in business or public health preferred; however, equivalent experience may substitute for formal education.
Financial grant experience.
Experience supporting grant program implementation, financial quality improvement, grant program evaluation, financial data collection, or subrecipient monitoring preferred.

Responsibilities:

Reports to Director of Finance and Compliance.
Leads financial Compliance and Reporting Team.
Presents financial reports for Executive and Programmatic leadership, ensuring accuracy and noting any causes for discrepancies.
Collaborates with Budget Analyst to meet Executive Leadership needs. Examples may include: communicating leadership directives to the budget team to produce accurate forecasts.
Manages relationships with other department divisions participating in RHT projects, ensuring proper reporting and documentation of relevant expenditures.
Leads CMS financial reporting compilation.
Leads MOAB financial reporting compilation.
Assists with preparing and coordinating budget revision documents as needed to CMS.
Collaborates with data reporting team and grant reporting leads to ensure all reporting needs are met for program.
Oversees entry of all contractual obligations and coordinates with multiple parties to ensure all programmatic needs are captured with contract request.
Ensures all contracts are represented correctly in both eMARS, RHTGA and CMS reporting system.
Other special projects as needed and deemed appropriate by Director of Finance and Compliance.
Other duties are assigned

Special Notes:

This project is 100% funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for a total of $212.9 million in budget year 1 with 100% by CMS/HHS. The Rural Health Transformation (RHT) grant spans five budget periods aligned with federal fiscal years (FY2026–FY2030). Funding is disbursed annually by CMS based on achievement of performance metrics. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CMS/HHS, or the U.S. Government. View the Notice of Funding Opportunity.

This role is involved in a dynamic public health program. As such, roles and responsibilities are subject to change as situations evolve. Roles and responsibilities listed above may be expanded upon or updated to match priorities and needs, once written approval is received by both the CDC Foundation and Kentucky Department for Public Health in order to best support the Kentucky Department for Public Health in their public health programming.

This position is currently a hybrid position. CDC Foundation retains the right to make adjustments to this as required.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status, and all other characteristics protected by law. We comply with all applicable laws including E.O. 11246 and the Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 governing employment practices and do not discriminate on the basis of any unlawful criteria in accordance with 41 C.F.R. §§ 60-300.5(a)(12) and 60-741.5(a)(7). As a federal government contractor, we take affirmative action on behalf of protected veterans.

The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment.

Relocation expenses are not included.