Community Health Manager

Alzheimer's Association Careers•Coeur d' Alene, ID

9d•Remote

About The Position

The Community Health Manager leads implementation of the Alzheimer’s Association’s Idaho Cognitive Health Workforce Network, funded through Idaho’s Rural Health Transformation Program. The Association serves as the lead entity in a hub-and-spoke model, chairs the Network’s steering committee, oversees partner sub-awards, and works with academic, clinical, and community partners to build a dementia-capable workforce in rural and frontier Idaho. The role helps providers, care professionals, community health workers, and students recognize early cognitive decline, connect people and caregivers with dementia care and community resources, and engage caregivers through organizations and networks outside the Association. The Manager builds and sustains partnerships with state agencies, health systems, FQHCs, universities, and community organizations, and ensures the Network meets its goals, deliverables, and reporting requirements. The grant includes Network infrastructure and administration; dementia-capable workforce development; and exploration of a statewide referral system. Specific priorities may be adjusted in coordination with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. This is a grant-funded position. The role is remote and full-time at 37.5 hours per week. The position reports to the Director of Community and Rural Health Programs. The stated salary range is $64,000–$80,000.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in public health, social work, health administration, nursing, gerontology, or a related field.
3–5 years of progressive experience in public health, community health, chronic disease management, aging services, health system outreach, or related fields.
5 or more years of leadership experience managing teams, preferably in large-scale or state program settings.
Demonstrated experience working with FQHCs, primary care practices, health systems, rural health providers, and community-based organizations.
Experience leading workforce development initiatives, including training, capacity-building, and program implementation.
Experience administering grants or sub-awards to community partners, including solicitation, review, monitoring, and reporting.
Proven success in clinical-to-community integration, care-coordination models, or referral and navigation programs.
Strong track record of stakeholder engagement, coalition work, and cross-sector collaboration.
Familiarity with interdisciplinary professional roles in rural and frontier populations, such as community health workers, social workers, nurses, physicians, care coordinators, and direct-care aides.
Ability to lead large-scale state program implementation within health, academic, or community-based systems.
Demonstrated ability to build and sustain strategic partnerships with state agencies, universities, health systems, FQHCs, rural health organizations, public health agencies, Tribal communities, and other community partners.
Experience developing and delivering workforce education, training, and capacity-building initiatives, including telementoring, continuing education, and clinical training pipelines.
Ability to manage budgets, timelines, sub-awards, contracts, and federally funded grant requirements.
Experience facilitating committees and coalitions, and communicating effectively with leaders across clinical, care, public health, academic, and community sectors.
Experience supervising, coaching, and developing a high-performing team.
Strong project management skills, including prioritizing, delegating, and coordinating multiple workstreams and partners.
Proficiency with data systems, dashboards, and reporting tools to track program performance, outcomes, and key performance objectives.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex concepts for diverse audiences.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Public Health (MPH), Social Work (MSW), Healthcare Administration (MHA), Gerontology, or a related discipline.
Knowledge of Idaho’s rural and frontier health and aging landscape.

Responsibilities

Lead day-to-day implementation of the Idaho Cognitive Health Workforce Network across its three components, ensuring grant requirements, deliverables, timelines, and performance objectives are met.
Establish, convene, and staff the Network’s steering and advisory committees; support adoption of a Network charter, prevent duplication of activities, and connect the Network with the Department and existing statewide ADRD workgroups and initiatives.
Oversee technical assistance and coordination for sub-awardees and partners by supervising state technical assistant staff, facilitating monthly technical assistance calls, and managing post-award monitoring with the Network’s Technical Advisor.
Oversee workforce activities, including the rural workforce needs assessment with Upstream Thinking, development and promotion of the Idaho Dementia Workforce Hub, expansion of rural clinical training and pipeline opportunities through AHEC, and the Project ECHO Idaho ADRD series.
Build and sustain partnerships with FQHCs, health systems, clinics, rural health providers, universities, Area Agencies on Aging, Tribal and community organizations, professional associations, and state workforce and aging agencies.
Plan and host the annual in-person convening of Network partners and advance the Network’s sustainability beyond the grant period.
Lead and coordinate Association staff supporting the Network, including the Technical Advisor and Associate Director of Applied Research & Program Evaluation, in collaboration with the Senior Director of Professional Education & Workforce Development and Director of Psychosocial Research and Program Evaluation.