Careers

Description:

Do you enjoy building working relationships with community stakeholders?  Are you an effective manager of community health programs or projects?  Are policy development and implementation among your strengths?  If this is you, join our Social Environmental Economic Conditions of Health Program, in the Environmental Health Division, as a Regular, Full-time (1.0 FTE) Health Promotion Coordinator II.

Some of what you’ll do:

• Collaborate with local planners and other decision makers to prevent and address housing and displacement issues within our County.
• Act as health department liaison to county and cities housing and building code departments, housing authorities, and housing policy stakeholders.
• Work in partnership with health department’s local, state, and federal policy staff and health equity program.
• Serve as health department representative on housing consortiums, task forces, and committees.
• Support efforts that improve the social, environmental, and economic conditions of health.
• Coordinate and facilitate trainings and develop training toolkits and resources making the connection between housing and health.
• Strengthen the connection between housing and health and the public health equity strategy to address an underlying condition for health with a focus on children, youth and families BIPOC communities.
• Participate and at times lead, in program planning and evaluation activities including data collection and reporting.
• Research, track, and evaluate local, state, and federal housing policies.

Click here for a detailed Classification Specification.

What you bring to the table

• Knowledge of marketing and communications principles and presentation techniques for culturally diverse audiences.
• Knowledge of evidence-based policy, systems and environmental change strategies
• Knowledge of effective health promotion education principles, practices and methods.
• Knowledge of social science assessment, intervention, and consultation principles and practices.
• Knowledge of basic budgeting and accounting principles.
• Skill and ability to lead and coordinate work for teams of professional and technical staff.
• Skill in researching, analyzing, recording, and assessing data, i.e., statistical data, health literature, marketing & educational strategies, grant applications, budgets, etc.
• Skill in organizing work activities to meet established objectives.
• Skill in communicating effectively in writing and orally to individuals and groups.
• Skill in the development and presentation of effective health promotion campaigns in a variety of settings.
• Ability to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with a diverse population of community members, media personnel, businesses, schools, community-based agencies, organizations and departmental staff.
• Experience in housing policy, fair housing, or homelessness issues.
• Experience with community organizing or coalition building, especially with youth and families.
• Knowledge and experience with health inequities and addressing institutional racism.

Who should apply

Bachelor’s degree and three years of relevant experience in health, environmental, education, or other related field, or the equivalent combination of education and experience to perform the essential functions of work. A Master’s degree is preferred.