Public Health Planner

Summary: The Community Health Planner will work to build opportunities for collaboration and alignment of work in our county among organizations/citizens around substance use of teens and adults while ensuring BASE grant deliverables.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Build and lead a Community Coalition ensuring BASE grantdeliverables
• Develop and maintain collaboration among coalition members and partneragencies
• Use best practices and evidence-based programs to help reduce opioid use and overdose fatalities amongadults
• Expand prevention programming for youth surrounding opioiduse
• Implement community awareness campaigns surrounding substanceuse
• Prepare and present educational programs to target audiences; research current health issues to enhance programs and educational materials such as brochures, newsletters, press releases, and distribute as
• Promotes health discussions in schools, industry, and community
• Uses Best Practices and evidence-based programs to target and impact the health of the community.
• Plans for and provides educational opportunities for law enforcement and
• Assist in compiling and preparing program statistics and

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The items listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Special Requirements: Must abide by all Departmental Policies as presented in the Personnel Policy Manual, any polices/procedures within the Department employed and all other duties as assigned.

• Must be able to meet department requirements for delivering presentations, knowledgeof current health education issues, and work flexible hours to accommodate program requirements.
• Must take courses for NIMS compliance: 100a, 200a, 700a, &800b
• Ability to work with community-based coalitions and organizations, healthcare organizations, community capacity building efforts, technical experience, and groupfacilitation
• Self-motivated, able to balance multiple and competing priorities or deadlines, excellent organizational skills, and ability to track multiple projects/programs tasks as delegated to programstaff
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills, with ability to engage, inspire, build credibility and engender trust with any and every audience. This includes the ability to build coalitions, negotiate, and resolve conflicts effectively while preserving important relationships with partners andfunders
• Ability to organize and coordinate the work of theunit

Education and/or Experience:

Bachelor's degree in psychology, sociology, community health or related field required 1 years experience required.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

Current driver's license

Current auto insurance

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of the core functions and essential services of publichealth
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of publicspeaking
• Knowledge of community resources and health agencies related to publichealth

Language Skills:

Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, media, clients, customers, and the general public.

Mathematical Skills:

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. Apply principles of good ethical/legal practice as they relate to study design and data collection.

Computer Skills:

Basic PC hardware and software, Windows OS, LAN and IP Functions, email systems and operations.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those and employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to risk of electric shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to outside weather conditions.

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this classification. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job.

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