Healthy Communities Specialist

Hours: 40 hours per week – 100% FTE. This is an in-office assignment. The incumbent will report to the district offices located in the Norm Dicks Government Center in downtown Bremerton, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.

Please note: The incumbent is expected to be available during the agency’s hours of operations and some evening and weekend work may be required for public meetings and/or other associated events. A limited hybrid telework arrangement may be established as mutually beneficial after adequate onboarding and sustained successful performance, generally after at least three months. 
 
Status: Regular status, full-time position.  
 
Benefits: The district offers a comprehensive health benefit plan which includes medical, dental, and life coverages, including several voluntary plan selections through The Standard, Aflac, and Met Life. The district provides medical and dental coverage contributing percentages of the average medical and dental insurance premium costs for full time employees as follows: Employee @ 100%, Employee & Spouse @ 90%, Employee & Child(ren) @ 90%, and Full Family @ 85%. Benefits include generous paid time off, and twelve paid holidays per year.  Employees participate in the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), a defined benefit retirement plan managed by the Washington State Department of Retirement Systems and Social Security. Several deferred compensation retirement savings plans are also offered. 

Essential Functions:

• Facilitates stakeholder groups in assessing, designing, planning, implementing, and evaluating strategic initiatives.
• Aids existing community groups, coalitions, boards, and service providers to increase their capacity to develop community health programs and implement community-level strategies.
• Facilitates and achieves grant deliverables by focusing on policies, systems, and environmental changes.
• Promotes inclusive strategies to engage multiple sectors of the community.
• Acts as a consultant both internally and externally to promote youth Cannabis and Commercial Tobacco use reduction.
• Works closely as a team with co-workers, statewide leaders, and community.
• Participates in all meetings, training, and conference calls as required.
• Responsible for grant management, budgeting, reporting, and evaluation. Grant administration duties include monitoring expenditure and reporting in accordance with grant-specific requirements.
• Maintains knowledge of policies, procedures, grant requirements and performs duties in accordance with applicable regulatory and grant requirements, regulations, and accreditation standards.
• Actively assists and participates in developing and distributing communication documents created for the funders, stakeholders, and/or community members highlighting the success of our work. 
• Prepares public health information, letters, memos forms, reports, and other documents; operates computers utilizing a variety of software programs, including database and word processing applications, to produce documents with clearly organized thought using proper sentence construction, punctuation, and grammar. 
• Identifies resource requirements and assists in the development of yearly budgets.
• Conducts staff and community meetings. Makes presentations to community groups and other as needed.
• Accurately completes and submits electronic timecard on a weekly basis as required.
• Works both independently and within a collaborative team-oriented environment; contributes openly, disagrees respectfully, understands the ideas of others, listens well, and works for consensus. 
• Models an organizational culture that promotes the practice of respect for people, openness, trust, safety, transparency, collaborative problem solving, managing with data, in the pursuit of continuous improvement and assurance. 
• Responds to public health emergencies as required by the District.
• Models a Go Lean Six Sigma organizational culture that promotes the practice of respect for people, openness, trust, safety, transparency, collaborative problem solving, managing with data, in the pursuit of incremental continuous improvement and assurance.
• Demonstrates cultural competency and embeds health equity into all aspects of assigned work and associated interactions.
• Establishes and maintains cooperative, effective working relationships with coworkers, other District employees, and the public using principles of good customer services.
• Reports for scheduled work with regular, reliable, and punctual attendance.
• Performs other duties as assigned. 

Please see job announcement for Work Environment and Physical Demand details:

Education & Experience:

• A bachelor's degree involving major study in public health or a closely related field; and
• Four years of professional experience in a public health capacity providing program leadership and community liaison activities.

Please note: Any equivalent combination of education and experience may be qualifying, provided the individual’s background demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities required.
 
Knowledge of youth development and substance use prevention is required. Experience working with community partners to support and develop associated programing is required. Ability to comfortably communicate with key decision makers on complex and controversial topics is also expected. 
 
Degrees must be from appropriately accredited institutions. 

Licenses, Certificates, & Other Requirements:

• Performance of job duties requires driving on a regular basis, a valid Washington State driver’s license, the use of the incumbent’s personal motor vehicle when a District fleet vehicle is not available for use, and proof of appropriate auto insurance.  

For additional information and to submit the required electronic application, please visit the Careers section of our website at kitsappublichealth.org.  You may also apply by accessing GovernmentJobs.com.