UCLA

UC Irvine

Claremont Graduate University

Oversee a portfolio consisting of grants, contracts & subawards with a combined total of $40M+ dollars in government, private and non-profit funding. Manage City and County of San Francisco budgets and contracts –  to ensure that their budgets are compliant. Each contract and budget has their own set of compliance rules and terms and conditions.

Manage multi-year contracts across diverse sectors, including mental health, health services, and underserved communities, with funding sources like NIH, CDC, and private philanthropy with contributions of partners such as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Heluna Health

Contract and Grants Manager

Led execution-focused projects in partnership with federal, state and local governments for green economy and healthcare career pathways with and for limited-income and first-generation community college students. 

Co-authored the grant development and program design for the acquisition of: $25 Million in grants to establish Build Back Better Workforce Development Program, a comprehensive program to drive green economy workforce development outcomes through the intentional engagement of community college partners, paid local apprenticeships and live-able wage green economy career pipelines.

BrandIQ

Senior Manager of Research, Innovation and Strategy

As a Distinguished Professor, I bring my extensive executive leadership expertise to the forefront of my teaching approach. I foster dynamic classroom discussions and debates while designing impactful writing assignments centered around the often overlooked narratives of multicultural histories, inequalities, and communities in the greater Los Angeles area. My focus extends to the profound economic and cultural implications of social determinants of health and health disparities.

Furthermore, I specialize in the critical analysis of interdisciplinary research, policies, and primary sources. My aim is to illuminate how systemic policies can either enhance or detrimentally affect health outcomes, particularly concerning access to economic development, community development and food systems. My commitment to advancing equitable education and instigating positive change underscores my role as a Visiting Professor.

Scripps College

 O’Brien Distinguished Visiting Professor

Conducted compliance research on foundations and corporations’ missions to ensure mutual fit when applying for grants and synthesizing recommendations for executives, helping to secure $100m+ in funding

Advanced Altamed’s mission of health prevention & wellness outcomes by managing  a qualitative study on how health outcomes are correlated with civic engagement, leveraging the results to secure a $75k “Project Innovation” grant from NBC

Led strategic grantmaking process with Google Nonprofits, acting as a liaison between Program staff to secure marketing support for Civic Engagement Programs

AltaMed Health Services

Consultant | Grants Team (Institute of Health Equity)

Worked for Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, where I co-authored culturally competent surveys and synthesized survey results; presented results to Blue Shield Foundation’s steering committee, and to senior City staff that to ensure additional community funding 

Administered Blue Shield Foundation’s grant of $1M to oversee 50+ cross-functional steering committee to develop end-to-end customer focused recommendations for regional domestic violence service systems in Los Angele

City of Los Angeles

Program Manager

Collaborated with the Director of Systems in reviewing and developing budget packages and data for executive review

Managed the cross-functional coordination and procurement processes between 3 software systems consultants to launch the first cloud-based queue management system
Piloted software to automate and reduce wait times for 400K+ tax renewals, 40K+ permits and 400K+ business registrations for City constituents by using mobile technology to facilitate higher client satisfaction in LA Tax queues for business owners

Senior Business Analyst

Partnered cross-functionally to support annual budget research and conducted revenue forecasting research

Spearheaded executive briefings to analyze the costs and effectiveness of city policies and programs.

Budget and Finance, CAO Policy Analyst

Pioneered a policy recommendations study with a cross-functional team of 6 County department managers as informants; secured the study contract for a population of 1.9 million constituents from the County’s $24b+ annual budget.

Produced senior-level briefings and analyses for countywide data sharing systems for youth in foster care across Los Angeles County Departments that led to the County’s first piloted program.

Office of Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina

Project Analyst

Implement daily and weekly objectives through interactive assignments, projects and multi-media to engage K-12 students to discuss and write about history, politics and culture.

Evaluate students’ analytical, researching, reading, writing and leadership skills.

Polytechnic School

Guest Teacher

Developed and conducted qualitative and quantitative surveys to monitor program effectiveness for 20 program participants annually.

Implemented feedback from interns and teachers to rate the value of mentor and program experiences, adopted by PCC.

Created qualitative and quantitative performance metrics to evaluate ongoing program goals.

Oversaw endowment budget of $1+million.

Pasadena City College

Teacher Preparation Program Project Manager

UCLA's Academic Advancement Program hosts the university's Transfer Summer Program and Freshman Summer Program. As an lecturer, I managed a class of 20 undergraduates and one teacher's assistant. 

Developed and implemented weekly objectives based on history, anthropology and political science.

Taught the Social Justice Class: “Crafting a Community: How Do You Want to be an Instrument of Social Change?” for three quarters to community college transfer students to improve student reading and writing skills at the graduate school level and to promote self-resilience, personal responsibility and confidence in class discussions and writing.

Mentored 24 low-income, first-generation college students to develop organizational and academic coping skills through assignments, projects, and interactive media using policy-based curriculum to engage cultural and community ideology to ensure student understanding of the ways in which policy shapes local and global economies, communities and leadership.



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Jessica Ward-Ramirez