State Adolescent Health Coordinator

TX-HHSC-DSHS-DFPS • Austin, TX

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About The Position

The State Adolescent Health Coordinator performs advanced consultative services and technical assistance work in the Child and Adolescent Health Group of the Maternal and Child Health Unit. This position provides support to Department of State Health Services (DSHS) staff, community organizations, professional groups, other state agencies, and the public.
This position serves as the statewide contact for adolescent (ages 10-24) health knowledge and information. Duties include identifying emerging trends in adolescent health and promoting best practices by planning, developing, and implementing programmatic work to achieve Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant performance measures; coordinating, developing, and carrying out the Title V Block Grant Action Plan related to adolescent health; providing leadership and management of interagency agreements and projects; implementing techniques for measuring, evaluating, and achieving program goals; collecting, organizing, analyzing, and preparing material in response to requests for information and reports; reporting on activities that address adolescent health in the annual Title V Block Grant Application and five-year needs assessment; assisting with planning and coordination related to Adolescent Health procurements and contracts; identifying collaborative opportunities across administrative boundaries to assure positive health outcomes for adolescents in Texas. Works under limited supervision of the Child and Adolescent Health Group Manager, with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgement.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university.
• Experience working in public health, population health, or health policy development.
• Experience in program planning, development, implementation, and evaluation.
• Experience in contract or grant management and monitoring.
• Knowledge of: Adolescent health, clinical/laboratory methods of evaluation and standards of care for children, community needs assessment process, adolescent development, including positive youth development, best practices related to adolescent health and safety and parent education, principles and practices of public health administration at the federal, state, and local levels, public health services in Texas, federal health care funding systems, health and population statistical evaluation and epidemiology, the scientific method, contract or grant development and management
• Skill in: Planning, implementing, and evaluating health services, analyzing and interpreting data, benchmarking, developing evaluation and assessment tools, oral and written communication, critical thinking and reviewing research, understanding, analyzing, and resolving problems, presenting educational programs.
• Ability to: Think creatively and work independently, work collaboratively and productively with related DSHS programs, other agencies and organizations, and people from varying professional, socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, establish goals and objectives and monitor progress toward achieving them, develop, evaluate, and interpret programmatic and administrative policies and procedures and convey to others.

Nice To Haves

• Graduate degree in public health, public affairs, public administration, social sciences.
• Work in adolescent health.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the primary source of information and expertise on adolescent health priorities related to the Title V Block Grant, such as injury prevention, secondhand smoke exposure reduction, positive youth development, chronic disease prevention, nutrition and physical activity, health disparity reduction, parent education, and youth engagement.
• Provides assistance and oversight to contractors implementing evidence-based interventions and programs to improve adolescent health outcomes.
• Provides subject matter expertise on adolescent health.
• Supports review and analysis of adolescent health policy and proposed legislation, review of existing data, and consultation with stakeholders.
• Other duties as assigned include but are not limited to actively participating and/or serving in a supporting role to meet the agency’s obligations for disaster response and/or recovery, Continuity of Operations (COOP) activation, and/or serving on the State Medical Operations Center (SMOC) team.

Benefits

• DSHS offers 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: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees