MyKearns Coalition Health Educator - Time Limited
MyKearns Coalition Health Educator - Time Limited
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Salt Lake CountyA career with a purpose in the community you love!
Salt Lake County invites you to explore our exciting career opportunities. We seek highly enthusiastic individuals to enrich our County with your experience and talent. If you enjoy working in a team environment that is committed to changing the lives of its community please keep reading.
What it is like to work here:
At Salt Lake County our culture is woven into all aspects of our work and our employees lives from the way we treat each other to the way we support the community. To promote and foster a fun and healthy work environment we appreciate employees through great benefits a healthy work life balance and room to grow and develop.
Surround yourself with:
Peers who are motivated to make a difference in the lives of those we serve. We serve Salt Lake County and envision a safe and beautiful place for all to live work and have fun. Salt Lake County is about connecting people and championing our community. Community is more than a our heart and service that bring us together.
We encourage a work life balance:
Working for Salt Lake County is more than just a paycheck. A career with /Salt Lake County includes several benefits and perks. We support our employees with 12 Holidays up to 24 vacation days 12 sick days and one personal day every year. Some positions have a hybrid work environment giving you flexibility to manage working from home and being in office.
Additional Benefits may include:
- Retirement options for hybrid pension/401(k) or 401(k) only with a 10% contribution
- Medical coverage including a 100% county paid premium option-Dental and Vision coverage including coverage for adult designees
- Health Savings account with a county contribution up to $1200/year Flexible Spending Account
- 100% county-paid Long-Term Disability and Short-Term Disability option
- Professional Development including professional membership fees paid
- Plus: Onsite medical clinic childcare and gym; hospital insurance pet insurance auto and home insurance and discounts at County facilities.
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JOB SUMMARY
Represents the Division of Community Health Services in countywide health education health promotion and risk reduction programs.
The MyKearns (MK) Health Educator works with the MK coalition to coordinate the coalitions efforts including meetings workplan and project implementation maintaining the momentum of coalition activities and compliance with County policies and the DFC grant. MyKearns is a non-profit organization that works with the Salt Lake County Health Department to manage the Drug-Free Communities (DFC) grant. MyKearns focuses on substance use among youth strong families and strong communities. For more information on MyKearns visit The health educator is a Salt Lake County Health Department employee. The successful candidate will be an independent worker and creative problem solver who is comfortable working in and with a diverse community building partnerships and managing detailed grants and projects. Must be willing to immerse themselves in prevention science and coalition best practices to support MyKearns and partners in their implementation efforts. Experience with presentations facilitation and/or training. Familiarity with community level or program data. Organizational skills time management skills and relationship building skills. Spanish preferred.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university in Health Education Health Science Public Health Early Childhood Education Community Health or Behavioral Science and Health with an emphasis in Health Education; OR an equivalent combination of related education and experience.
Due to the nature of this position the successful applicant must pass a required background check through fingerprinting and enrollment in the continuous RAP Back (Record of Arrest and Prosecution Back) program in accordance with current County Human Resources policy requirements.
A valid Drivers License accepted by the State of Utah is required at the time of hire. A valid Drivers License issued by the State of Utah must be obtained within six (6) months of hire to operate a county vehicle.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Develops plans and implements health education behavior risk reduction and outreach programs.
- Assesses health education needs and priorities of various populations using appropriate assessment tools.
- Develops conducts and evaluates the effectiveness of health education/health promotion programs.
- Creates marketing and educational materials; promotes events through various marketing methods.
- Acts as a resource providing links to communities.
- Creates and implements policy focused on population-based behavior change.
- Develops and prepares required reports and documents.
- Collaborates with internal and community agencies to accomplish stated objectives.
- Acts as a representative of the agency and program.
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSA)
Knowledge of:
Health Education theory
Preventive health strategies and risk reduction techniques
Techniques of effective program planning development and implementation
Evaluation methodologies including instrument design data collection analysis and reporting techniques
Community organization methods
Recent developments in the fields of health education health promotion healthy lifestyle and risk reduction
Federal State and local regulations related to medical health care and public law
Computer operations and uses including word processing graphics spreadsheets and presentation design
Program marketing Public relations and media relations methods and techniques
Effective communication techniques including audio-visual use
Principles methods and techniques of conducting field and/or special studies and investigations using scientific research methods and techniques
Medical terminology
Skills and Abilities to:
Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
Communicate and deal effectively with public government business and community leaders
Use a word processor/computer
Prepare and explain data by written graphic or verbal methods
Work effectively with people from a variety of social ethnic economic educational and professional backgrounds
Work with minimum supervision and act independently
Design and implement evaluation methodologies scientific studies needs assessments data collection and reporting mechanisms
Interpret and follow instructions
Work effectively in team settings
Additional Information
This position works Monday through Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM with some evenings and weekends. Flexing time is encouraged to stay within a 40 hour work to maintain a healthy work/life balance. Possiblity of a hybrid work schedule.
Employment Type
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