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Strategic Partnerships Coordinator

Our Role: Please come join our team to do meaningful work that has a real impact in our community. We are a team-oriented, family-friendly organization over 130 dedicated public health professionals. We work hard every day to keep our community safe and healthy. Keeping you and your family - and our county and its many visitors safe is our job. It could be your job too!  
 

The Position: The incumbent in this position strives to meet the mission of the Kitsap Public Health District through the development and support of relationships with a variety of local, regional, state and national partners. Through these strategic partnerships, the incumbent will support the assessment, exploration, prioritization, development and evaluation of initiatives to prevent disease and protect and promote the health of all people in Kitsap County. The principles of prevention, collaboration, quality, equity, and innovation guide the efforts of our Health District.

Within Health District polices, under the supervision of the Public Health Infrastructure Division Director and guidance from the Health Officer, the duties of the Strategic Partnerships Coordinator, in the classification of Program Coordinator 2, include complex project management, partnership development, facilitation of convenings and collaboratives, and research and analysis of best and promising practices to bolster public health. Key partners include sector representatives from healthcare, social services, education, government and elected officials, and residents of our community.

The incumbent will have a key role in monitoring and improving healthcare access advancing Kitsap Public Health Board Resolution 2023-04 (Download PDF reader) and the recommendations from the Healthcare System Challenges and Opportunities Assessment by Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security published in January 2024. Additionally, the incumbent will oversee the Kitsap Community Health Priorities (KCHP) collaborative community process to develop, implement, and evaluate the Community Health Improvement Plan.

Distinguishing Characteristics: Responsibilities are complex in terms of the impact to District operations, visibility, and the level of interaction with external stakeholders and partners. Work is governed generally by broad instructions and objectives usually involving topics requiring considerable judgment, initiative, creativity, and/or ingenuity.  

Community awareness and sensitive and appropriate handling of a political environment are functions of the position. The incumbent will receive leadership direction with assignments in terms of broad practice, precedents, policy making, and program and agency goals. Work will be reviewed for fulfillment of assigned objectives and for conformity to current agency policy and practice. The work requires significant judgment, initiative, creativity, and ingenuity in areas where there may be little previous example. Work requires the ability to plan and perform involved or technical work presenting new and regularly changing problems and to deal with complex factors not easily evaluated.

Hours: 40 hours per week – 100% FTE. This is an in-office assignment. The incumbent will report to the district offices located in the Norm Dicks Government Center in downtown Bremerton, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.

Please note: The incumbent is expected to be available during the agency’s hours of operations and evening and weekend work may be required for public meetings.  A limited telework or other alternative work arrangements may be established as mutually beneficial after adequate onboarding and successful performance, generally after at least three months. 
 
Status: Regular status, full-time position.  
 
Benefits: The district offers a comprehensive health benefit plan which includes medical, dental, and life coverages, including several voluntary plan selections through The Standard, Aflac, and Met Life. The district provides medical and dental coverage contributing percentages of the average medical and dental insurance premium costs for full time employees as follows: Employee @ 100%, Employee & Spouse @ 90%, Employee & Child(ren) @ 90%, and Full Family @ 85%. Benefits include generous paid time off, and twelve paid holidays per year.  Employees participate in the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), a defined benefit retirement plan managed by the Washington State Department of Retirement Systems and Social Security. Several deferred compensation retirement savings plans are also offered. 

The ideal candidate has a passion for public health, an understanding of multi-sector community initiatives, enjoys working with others, and brings humility, initiative, and inertia to the work.

This is a non-union position and is exempt from the minimum wage and overtime requirement of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).  

This position is currently posted continuously.  Applications will be reviewed upon receipt. Please note the application includes two supplemental questions. 

Essential Functions

• Provides a systems-level perspective effectively convening and facilitating meetings and discussions related to complex issues with diverse partners.

• Performs liaison activities by managing resources, organizing, and implementing comprehensive initiatives and activities at a community or regional level.

• Develops work plans and utilizes project management methods to guide, monitor, and evaluate implementation.

• Establishes cooperative relationships and works with community groups, agencies, and individuals in understanding complex issues.

• Coordinates the District’s community health assessment and improvement process, i.e., Kitsap Community Health Priorities (KCHP).

• Collaboratively identifies and implements partner and community engagement strategies that support and enhance KCHP.

• Develops a strategic plan and monitoring framework for implementing priority recommendations from the comprehensive healthcare systems assessment.
• Works with representatives from state agencies (Department of Social and Health Services, Department of Children, Youth, and Families, Department of Commerce) to collectively develop a long-term strategy and proposed legislation to improve behavioral healthcare access in Kitsap.

• Collaborates with the Assessment and Epidemiology program to implement research and information gathering strategies including reviews, assessments, scans and evaluations and perform data analysis to develop findings, interpretations and data-informed guidance.

• Interprets study findings and presents study designs, methodologies, and findings to internal and external audiences.

• Actively implements commitments set forth in Kitsap Public Health Board Resolution 2023-04.