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Description:

This position will oversee the Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Unit within the Epidemiology and Data Support Section of the Family and Community Health Bureau. The MCH Epidemiologist Supervisor will be responsible for serving as the Project Director and Lead Epidemiologist for the Montana Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) as well as supervising the data system and epidemiology staff supporting the Montana Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant (MCHBG). The MCH Epidemiology Supervisor will be responsible for overseeing the design and implementation of MCHBG program needs assessments and evaluations, continuous quality improvement activities, and the design of data collections to monitor MCHBG program performance measures. As the lead PRAMS Epidemiologist, the MCH Epidemiologist Supervisor will be responsible for authoring PRAMS surveillance reports and serving as the subject matter expert on the PRAMS dataset for all internal and external partners using PRAMS.

Major Duties or Responsibilities:

Develops, Implements, and Oversees Disease Surveillance Systems and Conducts Program Evaluation            

• Ensures compliance with requirements of the federal cooperative agreement supporting PRAMS

• Manages procurement process and oversees contract for a telephone survey and data entry contractor;

• Analyzes programmatic and service-related PRAMS data.

• Designs, coordinates, and manages special surveillance and/or evaluation procedures where no other data is available.

• Evaluates quality and efficiency of surveillance systems and makes recommendations for enhancements.  Monitors trends and risk factors, strengths and weakness, and so forth.

• Supports epidemiology program compliance with reporting and evaluations.

• Develops protocols to respond to investigation of emergent health situations.

• Performs complex statistical and epidemiologic analyses.

• Maintains periodic reporting to various stakeholders.

• Designs and conducts program evaluation activities.

• Writes technical reports, and grants.

Consultation and Education

• Develops and conducts various trainings related to epidemiological and program evaluation-related issues.

• Provides consultation and assistance to educate state and local health stakeholders in the development of surveillance systems. 

• Provides technical assistance on issues regarding surveillance, interventions, epidemiologic, program evaluation, statistical analysis, and data interpretation.

• Conducts disease prevention and health promotion programs and public policy presentations.

Supervision              

• Conducts staff meetings, disseminates data, and promotes information exchange.

• Recommends and justifies requests for additional personnel as necessary and hires employees.

• Determines training needs of staff through analysis of program effectiveness; new standards, specifications, technologies, and policies; and staff performance. 

• Evaluates the performance of positions directly supervised and completes performance evaluations. 

• Ensures staff complies with personnel rules, regulations, and policies.                   

Other Duties as Assigned

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