Adolescent Health Program Manager

Arizona Department of AdministrationPhoenix, AZ
Hybrid

About The Position

The Adolescent Health Programs prioritize the need to enhance equitable and optimal initiatives to positively impact the emotional, physical, and social wellbeing of adolescents, including youth with special health care needs. Programs and initiatives implemented include Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Bullying Prevention, Youth Mental Health, Youth Councils, and other adolescent health initiatives. This Adolescent Health Program Manager (AH PM) functions within the Adolescent Health team under the direct supervision of the Adolescent and Family Health Manager. This position is responsible for managing youth mental health, bullying prevention and teen pregnancy prevention programming and reporting, and other adolescent health initiatives as needed, and is responsible for maintaining OWH websites up-to-date. The position assists contracted programs with ensuring that the concepts they plan to implement are evidence-based, realistic, and delivered with fidelity. They will be required to work closely with each contractor to ensure compliance with the contract as well as state and federal law. The AH PM requires frequent statewide travel and occasional national travel. This position will have a hybrid work schedule and there will be occasional in office days for bureau related meetings and/or projects, as needed.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of principles, practices and current local and national trends in youth mental health and adolescent health, including but not limited to social and emotional well-being, teen pregnancy prevention education, and, positive youth development.
  • Knowledge of concepts of program planning, design and management, and evaluation principles, methods and techniques.
  • Knowledge of techniques and theories in working with youth, especially positive youth development.
  • Knowledge of adult learning theories.
  • Knowledge of grant development and management, and report writing.
  • Knowledge of Performance Management (PM), and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and Lean methodologies.
  • Skilled in collaborative partnership building and community engagement with diverse organizations in public and private sectors.
  • Skilled in oral and written skills to communicate clearly, concisely, and professionally.
  • Skilled in creating effective, visually engaging presentations and websites.
  • Skilled in analytical and decision-making skills and the ability to problem solve.
  • Skilled in project management and effective organizational practices including time management, analytical thought process, task completion, and priority setting.
  • Skilled in writing grants, work plans, logic models and providing information in a clear and concise way; providing information across modalities to adapt to various audiences.
  • Skilled in technical skills including data entry, word processing, typing, computer usage, including applying computer techniques to access and process new and existing information, mathematics, and accountancy.
  • Skilled in use of technology for program efficiency and improvement purposes.
  • Skilled in use of Google and Microsoft Suites.
  • Ability to develop plans, set goals and carry out plans to reach identified goals whether in a remote or in-office environment.
  • Ability to communicate effectively and maintain positive working relationships with program contractors, stakeholders, and internal staff.
  • Ability to develop and maintain relationships needed to monitor contracts, organize and maintain projects.
  • Ability to identify problems and formulate effective solutions; research appropriate sources to obtain required information; analyze and interpret program data; critical thinking required.
  • Ability to interpret and apply program policies and procedures, prioritize and organize work assignments and responsibilities to provide efficient, timely and quality outcomes within a demanding and diverse workload.
  • Ability to represent ADHS effectively, professionally and positively to others.
  • Ability to speak in front of a large group of people.
  • Ability to work effectively individually and in a team environment.
  • Ability to travel in and out-of-state.
  • Ability to be flexible, adapt to change, and respond effectively to competing priorities.
  • Ability to develop plans for executing projects that include and establish a sense of urgency to garner commitment from team members and partners to complete tasks within set deadlines.
  • Ability to perform tasks successfully in a hybrid work environment.
  • Ability to support a diverse multi-cultural workforce that reflects the community, promotes equal opportunity at all levels of public employment, and creates an inclusive work environment that enables all individuals to perform to their fullest potential free from discrimination.
  • Required possession of and ability to retain a current, valid state-issued driver's license. Employees who drive on state business are subject to driver's license record checks, must maintain acceptable driving records and must complete any required driver training.
  • All newly hired State employees are subject to and must successfully complete the Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-Verify).

Nice To Haves

  • Bachelor's degree or at least 2 year’s experience related to health programs appropriate to the assignment.
  • Experience working in youth mental health programming and/or Youth Mental Health First Aid; experience managing multiple projects simultaneously.

Responsibilities

  • Managing adolescent health programming efforts, including but not limited to the Youth Mental Health First Aid initiative and contracts, bullying prevention initiatives, and teen pregnancy prevention contracts.
  • Providing day-to-day technical assistance to sub-recipients
  • Review and approval of contractor invoices, narrative reports, and fidelity monitoring reports; monitoring program budgets
  • Coordination and/or training of health educators for implementation of Youth Mental Health First Aid, Wyman's Teen Outreach Program and other curricula, and professional development and conferences
  • Coordination, co-facilitation of and participation in the Youth Mental Health Steering Committee and execution of projects.
  • Identifying opportunities to leverage other adolescent health programming to integrate mental health
  • Maintaining OWH websites up-to-date and coordinating development of new sites, as needed
  • Developing, updating, and implementing youth mental health program policy and procedures, quality improvement and tracking tools
  • Conducting annual contractor site visits and facilitator observations
  • Collection of data from contractors and reporting to proper channels
  • Coordinating efforts to develop, foster and maintain relationships internally and externally with community partners in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
  • Representing the program and ADHS at various internal and external meetings as needed.
  • Manage program contracts including but not limited to: providing day-to-day technical assistance to contracted programs; review and approval of contractor invoices and reports; monitor sub-recipient program budgets, and coordinate paperwork for development of purchase orders.
  • Ensure proper implementation of programming including conducting status meetings and annual site visits.
  • Write grant applications and reports; write requests for proposals and evaluate applications.
  • Implement and monitor program policy to adhere to federal and state requirements.
  • Identify and develop collaborations and partnerships between individuals and agencies involved in adolescent health programming.
  • Coordinate and/or participate in committee meetings and execution of projects.
  • Plan and coordinate professional development trainings and conferences, contractor meetings, and others; develop written program materials and deliver oral presentations; develop required written reports, coordinate and create effective, visually engaging presentations within ADHS Brand Standards in Google Slide presentations.
  • Update Office of Women's Health websites on an annual schedule; work with programs and IT to develop new sites, content, or enhancements to websites.
  • Attend Bureau, Office, and team staff meetings and professional development conferences via in-person and hybrid; confer with supervisor.
  • Coordinates and delivers Youth Mental Health First Aid or assists contractors when delivering, as needed and as time allows.
  • Other duties as assigned as related to the position.

Benefits

  • Affordable medical and dental insurance plans
  • Paid vacation and sick time
  • Paid Parental Leave-Up to 12 weeks per year paid leave for newborn or newly-placed foster/adopted child (pilot program)
  • 10 paid holidays per year
  • Wellness program and plans
  • Life insurance
  • Short/long-term disability insurance
  • Defined retirement plan
  • Award winning infant at work program
  • Credit union membership
  • Transit subsidy
  • ADHS Student Assistance Pilot Program
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