Amanda Schiessl

About Amanda Schiessl

As Chief of Staff, Amanda Schiessl, MPP, supports the CEO, Senior VP and senior leadership to drive the organization’s goals and strategic initiatives forward, while maintaining day-to-day functionality across departments. She also serves as the Project Director/Co-Principal Investigator of the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) National Training and Technical Assistance Partners (NTTAP) on Clinical Workforce Development at Community Health Center, Inc.(CHC). As Project Director/Co-PI, she leads CHC’s work in creating, implementing, and executing free innovative training and technical assistance (T/TA) nationally to health centers in the key areas of training the next generation, transforming teams and emerging issues such as COVID response T/TA and HIV prevention T/TA. Amanda served as Co-Principal Investigator on the creation of an organizational readiness tool to implement change in Federally Qualified Health Centers, resulting in the creation of the Readiness to Train Assessment Tool. She project-managed CHC’s statewide COVID-19 testing efforts in collaboration with the State of Connecticut. Amanda also served as the site lead for Connecticut’s first mass vaccination drive-through clinic, supporting efforts to design, launch and innovate workflows and processes for mass vaccinations.Amanda started at CHC as the first Interprofessional Student Coordinator. Her diverse background in higher education provided her with the skills to develop systems needed to support efforts to train the next generation of health care professionals as outlined in the CHC Healthcare Student Playbook. She provided support to two HRSA grant partnerships with affiliated academic institutions with the objectives of providing comprehensive didactic and clinical experiences that prepare students to deliver effective integrated care services upon graduation within complex health settings for medically underserved communities. Amanda completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Allied Health at the University of Connecticut and received a Masters of Public Policy degree with a Health Policy concentration from Trinity College.

Experience

1. Chief of Staff

   Moses/Weitzman Health System

   Aug 2024 — Present

Education

• The Loomis Chaffee School

  High School

  2006 — 2010

• Trinity College-Hartford

  Master’s Degree, Public Policy, Health Policy Concentration

  2015 — 2018

• University of Connecticut

  Bachelors of Science, Allied Health

  2010 — 2014

Skills

• Sales
• Outstanding Time Management Skills
• Research
• Leadership
• Customer Service
• High Organizational Skills
• Data Entry
• Critical Thinking
• New Hire Orientations
• Powerpoint
• Time Management
• Public Speaking
• Facebook
• Highly Personable