Partnership for Community Health Project Manager

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Manage the Partnership for Community Health: Linn, Benton & Lincoln Counties’ (PCH) various regional projects to ensure that the PCH is reaching its goals.
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Meeting facilitation, nurturing of PCH’s intersystem relationships, finalizing, and managing the PCH website, developing reports on the achievements of the partnership, etc.
Essential Functions/Major Responsibilities Regional Community Health Assessment and Improvement Plan: Facilitate the development of a regional Community Health Assessment and Improvement planning process that includes primary and secondary data collection, analysis, community outreach and engagement, prioritization, strategic planning, and implementation of aligned and/or shared strategies.
Facilitate development of shared work plans.
Facilitate consensus around staff-sharing arrangements to carry out the shared regional Community Health Improvement process.
Develop project timelines and work to keep the collaborative on schedule.
Support data collection as part of the regional process.
Work with data analytics staff and other subject matter experts to continuously update and evaluate data collected as part of the Community Health Improvement process and to identify high priority needs.
Provide technical assistance to partners to interpret data and apply it to decision-making.
Provide technical assistance and leadership in development and monitoring of shared Community Health Improvement process strategic plan.
Travel across the region to meet with the PCH partners and to facilitate meetings.
PCH organizational structure development and management: Develop and manage a formal oversight structure as agreed by the PCH partners.
Develop a PCH project budget on a yearly basis.
Work with partners to identify annual reporting needs and divide responsibilities appropriately.
Develop and manage policies related to the PCH.
Attend meetings, and provide minutes, updates, and materials to PCH partners as assigned.
Act as a liaison, and support relationship management efforts through ongoing partner contact.
PCH Website development and management: Maintain the PCH website and conduct quarterly reviews of website content to ensure accuracy, relevance, and readability.
Develop standard operating procedures pertaining to the content, review, and management of the PCH website.
PCH Steering Committee and Workgroup Meeting Facilitation: Convene and facilitate PCH Steering Committee meetings and workgroups.
Co-create structured meeting agendas and provide documented minutes, including key decisions and next steps.
Support partners working on shared or aligned work with capacity-building and facilitation support.
Communicate and respond to internal and external questions and requests maintaining the knowledge necessary to accurately and constructively respond to inquiries.
PCH budget management: Responsible and steward for part of the PCH budget in partnership with the Steering Committee.
Utilizing confidential information to review budget vs actuals on a monthly basis.
Communicate on finances with Steering Committee on a regular basis.
Typical Qualifications Minimum Education Level Masters Specifics: Public health, health systems or equivalent.
Minimum Experience Level Two- Three years Specifics: Systems coordination and facilitation experience with a wide array of partners and organizations.
Substitution Note: Bachelor’s degree in the Public Health field with over 5 years of experience in public health and/or health systems project management.
Driver’s License Oregon Driver's License required Specifics: Must obtain within 30 days of hire Desirable Qualifications: Experience in operationalizing equity in public health programming and across systems.
Knowledge of: Public health and healthcare systems.
Collaboration and cooperation for collective impact.
Facilitation of multiple relationships across various systems.
Current and evidence-based principles, applications, and techniques of public health and policy analysis.
Community engagement, outreach, and participatory processes.
How social determinants and historical discrimination and oppressions of certain groups affect people’s and communities’ health outcomes.
The historical role of systems and policies in maintaining health disparities as well as knowledge of equity-based principles to systems and policies in order to decrease inequities and health disparities.
Skill or ability to: Think creatively and innovatively to help develop new standards and protocols.
Manage complex projects and demands.
Facilitate conversations and decision-making across multiple systems with shared goals and sometimes specific organizational requirements and politics.
Maintain highly confidential information.
Gather detailed information, analyze it, and communicate with various organizations and audiences.
Organize relevant evidence-based information, ideas, and facts.
Understand multiple and sometime different priorities and agendas and align them to reach collective impact on specific health outcomes.
Apply equity-based principles to systems and policies in order to decrease inequities and health disparities.
Convey information, ideas, and facts both orally and in writing to supervisors, colleagues, and individuals, inside and outside the county, using language and a format the audience will best understand.
Utilize computers and other technology to communicate in written and verbal forms (e.
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, word processing, texts, emails, spreadsheets, department-specific software).
Effectively relate well with others, including supervisors, colleagues, and individuals inside and outside the county.
Exhibit a professional manner in dealing with others and working to maintain constructive working relationships.
Take personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work.
Show up to work on time, and follows instructions, policies, and procedures.
Meet productivity standards, deadlines, and work schedules.
Job Conditions and Physical Demands WORKING CONDITIONS Job Conditions: Normal working hours with occasional evening and weekend meetings.
Face to face meetings throughout PCH region required.
Some activity outside of office setting.
Work Location: Lincoln County Travel: Moderate travel required to meetings, and multiple site locations across the Linn Benton and Lincoln region.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS The physical demands are typical 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.
Physical capability to handle high mobility demands and complex personal interactions.
Physical Ability: Tasks involve the ability to exert very moderate physical effort in light work, typically involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (12-20 pounds).
Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require visual perception and discrimination.
Some tasks require oral communications ability.
Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate sounds.
Environmental Factors: Tasks are regularly performed with limited exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, animals/wildlife, toxic/poisonous agents.
REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS Lincoln County is committed to providing reasonable accommodations as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
This job description indicates, in general, the nature and levels of work, knowledge, skills, abilities, and essential functions expected of the position.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Lincoln County offers a comprehensive benefit package including vacation, holiday, and sick leave as well as medical, dental, vision which is paid at 90% by the County and 10% by the employee.
Other fully paid benefits include life, AD&D, long-term disability insurance.
Other optional insurances are available.
A 401K retirement plan is also provided.
The County's current contribution rate is 11%.
Regular and Trial Service employees working between 20 and 39 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible for pro-rated employee benefits.