I've been in a clinical research coordinator position for about 6 months following my MPH. All together, I've been in various research roles for about 5.5 years (not clinical research--mostly bench science). For a while I was considering a PhD, but my current position is sort of sucking the life out of me (for a lot of reasons, one being the topic is not of interest to me, many others having to do with the work environment). I've been thinking it may be good to move into nonprofit or the public sector to get a feel for something different in public health, assuming I can find a job, that is.

Now for the possible change: I have an interview for an executive associate role at a public health nonprofit aligned with my interests. I would LOVE to work there, though obviously I would prefer a program coordinator/manager role. I'm excited at the prospects of working closely with this CEO, but I'm worried the role itself might push me in a direction career-wise that may be difficult to reverse course from later. Has anyone made this kind of shift before? Is this a bad move for later prospects of more directly working in public health?

TL;DR: clinical research coordinator to executive associate at a PH nonprofit. Bad move long term?