Public Health Program Coordinator
Public Health Program Coordinator
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03-08-2025
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Yearly Salary
USD 26 - 32
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Posted on :
03-08-2025
Job Description
Job Title: Public Health Program Coordinator
Type: Full-Time
Salary: $26.20 - $33.15 per hour depending on experience
General Position Summary
This position identifies community health information education and promotion needs for the County and policy interventions regarding behaviors and trends that relate to preventable disease disability injury and death. Engages extensively with the community to plan lead and facilitate appropriate interventions and programs in response to health assessments. Creates educational materials to inform community members and decision makers on health-related issues and policy interventions. This position works closely with community partners to advocate for policy change and deliver health education. Requires a high level of skill and knowledge base in public health policy systems and environmental changes data collection and analysis and community organizing.
This is a grant-funded position that ends June 30 2025 with the possibility of extension depending on available grant funding.
Essential Functions
The following may not be all inclusive and other duties may be assigned.
Collects monitors and analyzes data on significant health issues trends and problems of Klamath County citizens.
Assists in developing and coordinating health assessments of the most significant community health trends resulting in preventable disease and premature deaths.
Researches policy interventions and impacts and prepares policy proposals.
Able to think strategically develop and implement effective work plans.
Excellent written and oral communication skills. Deliver community health education and prevention programs. Presentations will be for all ages from elementary to older adults.
Coordinates and prepares culturally appropriate community health promotion and prevention information and projects to promote increased citizen health awareness and status.
Participates in community engagement to increase awareness about and access to needed public health services.
Able to work as a part of a team and to respond to feedback and supervision.
Engage with local state and regional community-based organizations. Specifically funded by Oregon Health Authority
Delivers in person and online smoking cessation classes after becoming a certified facilitator. County will train on the job.
Plans and participates in local regional and state public health promotional and training opportunities.
Support the Tobacco Retail Licensing (TRL) program through retailer and citizen education. Coordinate and conduct retailer inspections with a youth decoy. Input accurate data into the TRL data platform and assist in writing final report detailing inspection results.
Work with coordinated care organization to strengthen referrals through the Healthy Klamath Connect platform
Attend community outreach events throughout the county which may occur in evenings or on weekends
Education Certification & Experience
Bachelors degree from four-year College or university in public health or a related field; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience working with diverse populations and providing culturally and linguistically appropriate information preferred.
Oregon Drivers License
Knowledge Skills & Abilities
Language Skills
Ability to read analyze and interpret common scientific and technical journals financial reports and legal documents such as Oregon Statues. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers regulatory agencies or members of the business community. Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format. Ability to effectively present information to top management public groups and/or boards of directors.
Mathematical Skills
Ability to work simple math and statistics. Ability to understand descriptive and analytical data.
Reasoning Ability
Ability to define problems collect data establish facts and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Computer Skills
To perform this job successfully an individual should have knowledge of Explorer Google Chrome Internet software; Word Processing software; Excel Database software and Excel Spreadsheet software.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger handle or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop kneel crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision distance vision color vision peripheral vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Working Conditions
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
Work Schedule
This is a regular full-time position. The normal work schedule will be 8.00 hours per day 5 days per week; management assigns exact schedules. It is the attendance standard of the employer that all employees be present and on times each shift they are scheduled to work. Full or partial absence during any scheduled shift arriving late or leaving early for whatever reason may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment. The Public Health Employee may be required to stay at or return to work during public health incidents and/or emergencies to perform duties specific tohis/her position or to perform other duties as requested in an assigned response position. This may require working a non-traditional work schedule or working outside normal assigned duties during the incident and/or emergency. Work schedules are assigned by management and may include holidays and weekends.
Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Full-Time
Department / Functional Area
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