Health Program Manager 3 (HIV/STD Program Manager PCN 061825)

State of Alaska•Anchorage, AK

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

This Individual Position is Exempt from the Hiring Freeze. Qualified Applicants are Encouraged To Apply. Welcome to the Department of Health! We’d be delighted to have you join our team. If you envision yourself in this role and are ready to start an exciting career with us, apply today! This position is open to Alaskan Residents only. Please check out the residency definition to determine if you qualify. Lead Alaska’s statewide HIV/STD program, guiding efforts to detect, prevent, and control HIV and sexually transmitted infections across diverse communities. Shape and strengthen public health policy and programs while overseeing grants, contracts, and funding that support HIV and STD prevention, testing, treatment, and care services. Partner with healthcare providers and public health professionals by ensuring access to expert consultation on HIV/STD treatment and care. Identify and manage federal and other funding opportunities to expand and sustain critical services. Recruit, mentor, and support a dedicated team of professionals committed to improving sexual health outcomes across Alaska. The Alaska Section of Epidemiology works to keep Alaskans safe from infectious diseases and environmental health hazards by collecting, analyzing, and using data to guide public health action. The team partners with local, Tribal, state, and federal organizations to conduct disease surveillance, support immunization and HIV/STD programs, and inform prevention and response efforts. As Deputy Section Chief, you will help lead this important work by providing strategic leadership and operational oversight across programs, strengthening staff and partnerships, and supporting rapid, coordinated responses to emerging health threats across the state.

Requirements

A valid Driver's License is required at the time of appointment.
A background check may be required for this position to access systems.
Competency in Program Planning: Ensures state/Tribal/community health improvement planning uses community health assessments and other information related to the health of a community (e.g., current data and trends; proposed federal, state, and local legislation; commitments from organizations to act). Develops program goals and objectives.
Competency in Community Dimensions of Practice: Distinguishes the roles and responsibilities of governmental and non-governmental organizations in providing programs and services to improve the health of a community.
Competency in Partnering: Develops networks and builds alliances; collaborates across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals.
Competency in Public Health: Applies knowledge of the concepts, principles, theories, methods, and tools associated with protecting and improving the health of people and their communities, including promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing, and responding to infectious diseases.
Competency in Human Capital Management: Builds and manages workforce based on organizational goals, budget considerations, and staffing needs. Ensures that employees are appropriately recruited, selected, appraised, and rewarded; takes action to address performance problems. Manages a multi-sector workforce and a variety of work situations.
Competency in Leadership: Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.
Competency in Conflict Management: Encourages creative tension and differences of opinions. Anticipates and takes steps to prevent counter-productive confrontations. Manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a constructive manner.
A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in biological, health, or behavioral science; health practice; education; public, healthcare, or business administration; or a closely related field; AND/OR Progressively responsible professional supervisory or lead-level experience performing health program planning, development, coordination, evaluation, or implementation; providing technical health care assistance and consultation; conducting health care utilization or quality assurance examinations; and/or delivering health care service.

Nice To Haves

Financial Management: Prepares, justifies, and/or administers the budget for program areas; plans, administers, and monitors expenditures to ensure cost-effective support of programs and policies; assesses financial condition of an organization.
Organizational Awareness: Knows the organization's mission and functions, and how its social, political, and technological systems work and operates effectively within them; this includes the programs, policies, procedures, rules, and regulations of the organization.
Program Oversight: Plans, coordinates, and monitors programs to ensure that federal, state, and/or local government program requirements and plans are met, providing professional consultation on the specialized services of the program or associated project(s).

Responsibilities

Lead Alaska’s statewide HIV/STD program, guiding efforts to detect, prevent, and control HIV and sexually transmitted infections across diverse communities.
Shape and strengthen public health policy and programs while overseeing grants, contracts, and funding that support HIV and STD prevention, testing, treatment, and care services.
Partner with healthcare providers and public health professionals by ensuring access to expert consultation on HIV/STD treatment and care.
Identify and manage federal and other funding opportunities to expand and sustain critical services.
Recruit, mentor, and support a dedicated team of professionals committed to improving sexual health outcomes across Alaska.
Provide strategic leadership and operational oversight across programs, strengthening staff and partnerships, and supporting rapid, coordinated responses to emerging health threats across the state.