The City seeks a verifiably qualified evaluation professional, an organization’s development department, or combination of verifiably qualified evaluation professionals to assist the City in creating a long-term effort to improve community health. The contractor will be tasked with leading the MHTF’s Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) evaluation efforts, in partnership with the Office of Planning & Development- Community Development Department, and the Mayor’s Health Task Force’s Healthy Active Living Working Group (HALWG). The Contractor will lead evaluation efforts that demonstrate the impact of the program, inform continuous quality program improvement, and determine the scalability of the strategies for future investments. He/She/They will also be responsible for reporting short-term outcomes predetermined by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The successful applicant, with support from the HALWG, will coordinate with the MHTF and REACH Coordinators, and/or the Community Development Dept. Director for review and authorization to proceed. The Contractor is required to prepare a planning timeline, inclusive of a work plan and schedule for authorized grant opportunities and reporting requirements. The Contractor will be expected to consider public health in its broadest context, centered on addressing health inequities and the social determinants of health, in the areas of nutrition, breastfeeding, and physical activity, inclusive of the built environment.
