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Description:

This is a CDC Foundation position assigned to the Alaska health department. Relocation expenses are not authorized.

Responsibilities
• Incumbent is responsible for managing, coordinating, and communicating COVID-19 investigation protocols within the department as well as assisting internal epidemiologists with process updates and system changes as protocols are updated 
• Assess impact to COVID-19 investigations and contact tracing.  
• Incumbent makes recommendations to supervisor regarding non-routine and/or emergency public health situations incorporating agency guidelines and policies.  
• Incumbent also helps coordinate COVID-19 disease control activities and works with vendors to provide required data on outbreak-related measures for division dashboard. Incumbent coordinates development and distribution of the COVID-19 Case Investigation and Contact Tracing Plan and annual status report.  
• Supervise and hire/evaluate employees  
• Develop and distribute the COVID-19 Case Investigation and Contact Tracing Plan and serve on exercise development teams to evaluate and improve the plan  
• Coordinate department efforts to identify, analyze and interpret local clusters of disease
• Prepare and distribute annual status report  
• Submit data as required for outbreak-related measures for division dashboards and ensure measures are met  
• Facilitate dissemination of epidemiologic information to division leadership  
• Support division, program areas, and external stakeholders on disease prevention initiatives 
• Serve as a subject matter expert on COVID-19 investigations and contact tracing 
• Serve as liaison between project stakeholders  
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential

Qualifications
• Broad knowledge of principles and practices of public health and infectious disease, especially those applicable to the identification and control of communicable disease 
• Thorough knowledge of principles, practices and investigative procedures of infectious disease epidemiology  
• Extensive knowledge and ability to develop study protocols and to direct personnel in the field 
• Ability to initiate, conduct and report on epidemiological studies relating to various communicable diseases 
• Ability to apply and interpret federal, state and local laws, rules, regulations, policies and recommendations relating to communicable disease  
• Ability to provide technical assistance locally and in the field to medical practitioners, hospital staff, public health officials, agency staff, businesses and lay individuals  
• Ability to communicate with health care professionals, state and local officials, public health officials, the media, and lay individuals verbally and in writing in individual or group settings 
• Ability to coordinate and maintain effective working relationships with various internal and external customers and stakeholders  
• Experience with quality assurance and quality improvement processes
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office products  
• Oral and Written Communication Skills, Leadership Skills, Budgeting Skills, Organizational and Planning Skills, Presentations Skills 
• Managerial Skills
• Prefer Anchorage location, Juneau possible