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La Clinica del Pueblo

Job Title: Health Promotion Manager

Department: Community Health Action

Supervisor: Director of Community Health Action

Location: Position based in DC but can work from any La Clinica’s facility, as required. Position works on-site but can occasionally work remotely, as needed.

Classification: Exempt/ Salaried

Synopsis: This position will work within the Community Health Action Department to implement public health initiatives to reduce the health inequalities of the local low-income Latino community. This includes a focus on decreasing the incidence of, but not limited to, chronic conditions experienced by the community through mitigating barriers to healthy behavioral change and access to health care services. The manager will lead a community-based approach to public health and the management of effective, culturally appropriate public health interventions.

Qualifications:

Required Education and Experience:

• Minimum of a BA/BS college degree or combination of minimum three years equivalent education and work experience in the public health and/or human service field, or any other related field.
• Bicultural; fully bilingual.
• Comprehensive awareness and knowledge of the prevalent health conditions in the local Latino community and of the social determinants impacting them.
• Knowledge of chronic diseases prevention and management, including but not limited to, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.
• Three years minimum experience working in health promotion and/or with public health service delivery to the Latino community.
• Two years minimum experience developing and implementing programs, including development and administration of teams, work plans, budgets, reports, quality assurance activities and training curriculums and materials.
• Two years minimum experience working with community health workers (promotores de salud).
• Experience mentoring and leading the growth and development of staff and community health workers (promotores de salud).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Share Point, Teams), data process software, and Electronic Medical Records.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Two years minimum experience developing content for graphic and audio-visual health educational materials using a health literacy approach.
• Experience implementing needs assessments activities.
• Experience working in a HIPAA regulated environment.
• Experience coordinating logistical support for program activities.

Required Skills/Abilities/Certifications/Licenses:

• Ability to work with diverse populations and handle multiple tasks.
• Ability to work in multiple organizational environments with different levels of staff.
• Effective leadership and problem-solving skills, team building, detail oriented, self-starter.
• Excellent organizational, communication, facilitation, and coordination skills.
• High motivation for work in public health including gender equity and strong ethical core.
• Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, and presentation skills in Spanish and English.

Preferred Skills/Abilities/Certifications/Licenses:

• Implementing health messaging dissemination initiatives.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Work closely with the Community Health Action Department Director to develop and implement a work plan to provide the local Latino community with culturally appropriate interventions to reduce health inequalities and to decrease the incidence of infectious and chronic diseases, as well as gender-based violence, including:
   1. Conduct ongoing assessment of community health needs based on program data, health agency reporting, and focus groups with the target population.
   2. Develop and update health promotion program work plan using multiple community-driven interventions to meet local needs based in three different locations.
   3. Develop and disseminate health communication and promotional materials.
   4. Support the Department Director at the Health Literacy committee providing guidance to programs and services’ health communication efforts.
   5. Lead the implementation of community-based events (health fairs, wellness activities, health education sessions, etc.).
   6. Support the Department Director by leading the design and implementation of the annual training program for ‘Promotores de Salud’.
   7. Collaborate with department staff on training community health workers.
   8. Ensure completion of program’s deliverables for grants and contracts.
   9. Develop client engagement, recruitment, and retention strategies to meet program targets.
   10. Ensure adherence to intervention standards and quality assurance requirements.
   11. Provide programmatic written reports on work plan implementation progress, as appropriate.
2. Work closely with the Community Health Action Department Director to manage program’s resources including:
   1. Operate assigned program budget, maximizing expenditures according to approved budgets and in compliance with financial deadlines.
   2. Administer program supplies needed for program activities, paperwork, client incentives, and promotional materials required to run the program.
3. Data management duties and responsibilities:
   1. Conduct quality assurance activities in conjunction with Department Director and Program Evaluation Manager around public health initiatives and reporting requirements.
   2. Ensure timely entry of programmatic data into required program databases and report systems.
4. Networking and program integration duties and responsibilities:
   1. Establish and maintain relationships with community agencies that support and collaborate with the implementation of health promotion initiatives.
   2. Work closely with Department Director to represent La Clínica at relevant meetings and coalitions within and outside La Clínica.
   3. Participate in required program integration efforts particularly with primary care and mental health services and within the department, as required.
5. General duties and responsibilities:
   1. Attend required trainings to increase/maintain skills.
   2. Attend program, Department, and all staff meetings and all mandatory La Clínica activities.
   3. Follow La Clínica’s Code of Conduct and all other personnel Policies and Procedures.
   4. Perform other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Supervise program staff, including planning of training activities, growth and development, monitoring data collection & reporting activities, work scheduling, timesheets & expenses submission, hiring, and performance evaluations.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to work on some evenings and weekends.
• Able to perform duties in different La Clinica’s locations as required.
• Able to perform duties and responsibilities remotely when needed.
• Medium physical effort needed particularly when setting up onsite and/or street-based outreach events and activities.