AmeriCorps Member – Special Events Coordinator
About The Position
Healthy Communities is CHC’s AmeriCorps program designed to create cohesion in vulnerable communities and to promote healthcare and support services through outreach, awareness, linkage to care and support. Healthy Communities also serves to identify the unique and integral needs of our communities and neighborhoods and to establish strategic plans to address them. Service delivery will directly address the public health crisis in vulnerable communities and make healthcare and support services accessible through flexible delivery of services. AmeriCorps members will conduct community outreach, education, patient engagement, and link patients to CHCI care and referrals to community based assistance. Additionally, AmeriCorps members will participate in statewide and local activities which promote awareness of health and health services. This is an AmeriCorps Member role – Special Events Coordinator – that supports the Communications Department in Middletown and throughout CT.
Requirements
- High school or equivalent required
- Proficiency in Microsoft office and internet-related applications
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Excellent oral and written skills
- Successful clearance of all required criminal history checks (NSCHC)
- Able to travel between CHC sites and in state
Nice To Haves
- Associate’s degree in public health, communications, public relations related field
- Bilingual Spanish/English
- Knowledge and/or experience utilizing various social media and technology platforms
- Experience creating, designing, marketing content
Responsibilities
- Conduct monthly patient health education workshops; monitor the completion of pre-post surveys by workshop participants; and complete data entry of workshops and surveys.
- Track and document all completed patient engagement activities in patient’s electronic health record.
- Serve across organization to identify and maintain calendar of events from all CHC departments, sites, schools, programs that will provide health education in the community, improve patients’ access to healthcare services as well as provide resources that AmeriCorps members can leverage to implement outreach activities.
- Collaborate with communications team to develop content for social media and digital platforms to promote events.
- Provide logistical support and coordination of event planning activities for identified events like client registration, ordering and inventorying of supplies, room reservation, etc.
- Design and provide content for CHC AmeriCorps social media and CHC website to promote health education sessions in the community.
- Work with AmeriCorps program to create and design content related to AmeriCorps member outreach and education sessions within the community, including distribution of marketing materials.
- Participate in community and internal meetings.
Benefits
- $25,000 stipend over the course of one year, paid bi-weekly
- An education award of $7,395 at the end of successful service term completion
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
