Program Coordinator 2 (WIC Program Coordinator PCN 061547)

State of Alaska•Anchorage or Juneau, AK

8d•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. This position is currently located in Juneau, AK . The position may be in Anchorage or Juneau depending upon the location of the most qualified candidate. What you will be doing: As the WIC Program Coordinator , you’ll play an important role in helping women, infants, and children in your community access essential nutrition services and support. You’ll lead daily WIC service delivery while providing nutrition education, breastfeeding support, referrals, and supplemental food assistance directly to families. You’ll help ensure services are welcoming, efficient, and consistent with state and federal WIC requirements. This is a rewarding opportunity to serve as a trusted community resource and make a meaningful difference in the health and well-being of Alaska’s families. Our organization, mission, and culture: The Division of Public Health is the state's lead public health agency focused on the services that protect the public's health and advance the health status of all Alaskans and communities by preventing illness and injury. WIC is part of a public health program providing nutrition and breastfeeding education, counseling, support, referrals to needed services, and nutritious food to eligible women, infants, and children up to age five. We embrace the values of excellence, innovation, continuous improvement, integrity, and inclusiveness. In your role, you will positively impact the food security of families across Alaska.

Requirements

Competencies 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/or injury prevention, and/or detecting, preventing, and responding to infectious diseases.
Customer Service: Anticipates and meets the needs of both internal and external customers. Delivers high-quality products and services is committed to continuous improvement.
Competencies in Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one’s knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
Compliance: Knowledge of procedures for assessing, evaluating, and monitoring programs or projects for compliance with Federal laws, regulations, and guidance.
Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
Planning and Evaluating: Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinates with other organizations or parts of the organization to accomplish goals; monitors progress and evaluates outcomes.
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.
Training from an accredited college or university in any field and/or progressively responsible professional experience developing, planning, coordinating, and implementing a program, project, business, organization, or major components of a program, including having administrative authority over the program/project funding, staff, and/or overall operations.

Nice To Haves

Position-specific competencies in Public Health
Position-specific competencies in Customer Service

Responsibilities

Lead daily WIC service delivery
Provide nutrition education
Provide breastfeeding support
Provide referrals to needed services
Provide supplemental food assistance directly to families
Ensure services are welcoming, efficient, and consistent with state and federal WIC requirements