Regional Community Engagement Coordinator

Texas Health & Human Services Commission • Temple, TX

12d • $4,263 - $5,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Regional Community Engagement Coordinator performs highly complex (senior-level) consultative and technical assistance related to community health improvement and planning and supports health education and engagement efforts of other programs within the region. Work involves building relationships with community stakeholders, conducting community needs assessments, and developing and expanding collaborative partnerships with community/social service delivery programs in target communities. Works with communities and local stakeholders to identify, develop and implement strategies to promote health, to prevent injury and/or disease, build relationships, and help collect community data. Works under minimal supervision, with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment regarding partnership building, community health improvement strategies, and related decisions. This position works closely with other regional staff, community groups, internal and external stakeholders.

Requirements

• Knowledge of program planning, implementation, and/or public health initiatives.
• Knowledge of non-medical drivers of health.
• Skill in presentation development and delivery.
• Skill in writing readable documents/reports dealing with complex subject matter.
• Skill in Microsoft Office suite.
• Skill in communicating, both orally and in writing, for a wide variety of audiences.
• Skill in managing multiple and competing priorities.
• Skill in community relations.
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally.
• Ability to work efficiently and effectively both individually and as part of a team.
• Ability to demonstrate cultural sensitivity working with various populations and communities.
• Ability to organize and develop work plans, coordinate assignments, and adhere to strict deadlines.
• Ability to gather, assemble, correlate, and analyze complex facts and distill the findings into a coherent message.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with a diverse range of internal and external contacts.
• Ability to communicate with diplomacy.
• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in communications, public relations, public health, health sciences, education or related field preferred.
• 2 years experience in public engagement, outreach, educational activities, or program implementation.
• Experience in building relationships with community groups.
• Experience may be substituted on a year for year basis for education.

Nice To Haves

• CHW certification or CHES certification preferred.
• Graduate degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates with regional staff and external stakeholders to develop community engagement strategies for target communities informed by qualitative and quantitative data and secondary data sources.
• Provides education and promotes public health information to community groups.
• Advises regional staff on evidence-based approaches and best practices to address emerging public health concerns and plan, develop, or expand initiatives aimed to improve health and well-being of regional communities.
• Develops and implements effective techniques for evaluating outreach activities and identifying gaps.
• Convenes meetings and provides high-level technical assistance to collaboratively address challenges and barriers with involvement from regional staff, community members, partner organizations, and other stakeholders.
• Educates the community about health issues and services.
• Develops and delivers educational presentations and trainings to at-risk populations, health providers, and community groups.
• Identifies and engages community partners in addressing community needs and reducing barriers to better quality of life, including but not limited to health care providers, government agencies, schools, social services, government officials, local agencies, community-based organizations, professional groups, and community leaders to identify, develop, implement, and evaluate strategies to successfully promote health and disease/injury prevention.
• Collaborates with regional program staff to determine responses to emerging public health issues within Public Health Region 7.
• Advises staff in evidence-based approaches that can be implemented to inform, educate, and prepare communities.
• Assists regional programs in identifying outreach materials, innovating delivery methods, and/or coordinating messages across county and program areas.
• Networks with area agencies and community organizations by attending community meetings and visiting or calling service providers to learn about what they do to refer community members in received services.
• Consults with community leaders, healthcare providers/orgs, social service agencies, regional staff, and local stakeholders to build/design or expand initiatives aimed to improve health, well-being, and resilience ahead of emerging public health threats.
• Involves regional program staff to develop and implement evaluation plans for community-based activities.
• Collects data for use in planning and evaluating intervention strategies.
• Prepares reports highlighting community engagement projects.
• Contributes to documenting grant or funding deliverables.
• Maintains a calendar of regional outreach activities, including community events, workshops, appearances, and other communication opportunities.
• Evaluates findings from various projects implemented within communities to determine if objectives were met.
• Develops and provides interactive educational activities promoting healthy behaviors for internal and external audiences.
• Leads employee wellness initiatives.
• Monitors public health issues within regional communities and reporting on those issues.
• Provides recommendations based on report findings and information collected from qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection to regional staff and local stakeholders.
• Works with the field office nurse and other staff to identify other information needed about the community to better understand community health status, including development of tools and techniques.
• Evaluates the regional wellness program to determine if it was meeting set regional objectives, identifies areas of improvement, and develops approaches to improve the wellness programming.
• Actively participates and/or serves in a supporting role to meet the agency's obligations for disaster response and/or recovery or Continuity or Operations activation. Such participating may require an alternate shift pattern assignment and/or location.

Benefits

• Insurance coverage and other benefits available through the State of Texas Group Benefits Plan administered by the Employee Retirement System of Texas (ERS).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior