Job Description

Job Summary

The Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) strives to foster opportunity through all its work across the state. One aspect of building equity is ensuring that community organizations across Tennessee – whether they are rural, minority, or low-income – can equitably access funding resources to carry out critical public health work.

Community Impact Consultant (CIC) will be tasked with helping community groups – County Health Councils, local nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others doing work at the community level – develop the skills they need to seek and manage funding opportunities to support their projects to improve community resilience. Small community-based organizations are often close to the community, understand local needs, and have ideas about how to address those needs. However, they often lack the bandwidth or experience to implement their ideas. Furthermore, complex grant application processes can be a barrier to community partners obtaining funds for their projects. The CICs will work to break down these barriers for community organizations by providing grant-related trainings, offering technical assistance with developing grant proposals, and connecting community-based organizations with local funders. Through this work, the CICs will help strengthen local organizations, increase community resilience, and get dollars into the hands of those closest to the community.

Job Responsibilities

The Office of Strategic Initiatives (OSI) is seeking one (1) Community Impact Consultant to join the existing team based in the Upper Cumberland/Southeast region (green area on map below).

The Upper Cumberland/Southeast Community Impact Consultant will be based in and will cover the following counties:

Community Impact Consultants primary job functions will include:

• Offering technical assistance to Health Councils and other community organizations in preparing applications for funding (grant applications).
• Establishing strong relationships with local funding organizations in each region to identify potential good-fit funders for Health Councils and other community organizations. This could include Community Foundations, Private Foundations, Corporate Funders, and others.
• Assisting community organizations in grant prospecting and identifying potential funding sources for their community-based projects.
• Developing and presenting trainings and curricula in response to community need. Topics could include grant proposal writing, grant management, project planning, and others as identified.
• Offering technical assistance to organizations with developing project ideas into structured project plans, and other topics related to grant readiness.
• Offering mentorship and coaching to new/small organizations on topics such as leadership structure, setting up board of directors and bylaws, advising on obtaining 501(c)(3) status, setting up policies and procedures, and more.
• Assisting community organizations in determining the need to obtain 501(c)(3) status or of identifying a fiscal sponsor, and then assisting in the process of obtaining 501(c)(3) status/fiscal sponsor.
• Establishing strong working relationships with Tennessee Department of Health staff who are also involved with grant seeking at the regional and local levels (Healthy Development Coordinators, Health Council Coordinators, Health Educators, and more).
• Other tasks related to strengthening community organizations’ ability to obtain, manage, and effectively use grant funding to improve public health outcomes and increase community resilience.

Qualifications

Qualifications, Skills, Experience, Attributes

• Strong grant seeking and grant proposal writing background
• Awareness of and connection to the local philanthropic/grant making community
• Strong facilitation/teaching/coaching skills
• Experience developing trainings and curricula
• Ability to form friendly rapport and build trust with communities
• Ability to forge relationships with local funders
• Ability to communicate effectively with audiences of different backgrounds
• Ability to work independently and self-start. 
• Approachable manner
• Patience

Additional Information

Benefits

Position Details

• This is a contract position with the State that is funded through November 2027 with the opportunity for extension. 
• This position is fully remote (work from home) but will require frequent travel throughout the region as well as occasional travel to Nashville or other parts of Tennessee. Applicant must be willing and able to drive for meetings with community organizations and Health Councils throughout their regions.

How to Apply

• Submit resume with cover letter describing your interest in the position to angelia.allen@tn.gov. Please also include name and contact information for 3 references.
• Deadline to submit applications: Friday, January 30th.

Details

• Date Posted: January 8, 2026
• Type: Full-Time
• Job Function: Programs and Service Delivery
• Service Area: Government
• Salary Range: 87,912

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