JOB POSTING
Community Health Specialist
The Regional Center for Healthy Communities is looking to create a team of professionals with high levels of expertise in health promotion; community participatory data collection, analysis, and presentation;coalition development; community organizing; social determinants of health; and systems-level approaches for prevention and health promotion. We are committed to building a culturally diverse staff that enables us to effectively serve our communities.
Responsibilities:
- Provides technical assistance, consultation, and training for emerging and existing community groups, coalitions, boards of health, and other service providers to increase their capacity to develop community health promotion programs, policy initiatives and implement community-level strategies.
- Promotes inclusive strategies to engage all sectors of the community with particular emphasis on those under-served.
- Plans, organizes, and implements workshops and meetings that promote public health goals and collaboration among communities.
- Maintains knowledge of current prevention and public health theories and strategies, as well as community organizations, agencies, and leaders.
- Documents best practices and community achievements within the region for a wide range of audiences
- Oversees project management for certain community groups in the region.
Qualifications:
· Experience and knowledge of prevention theory/health promotion, youth development, coalition building, the healthy communities framework, and community organizing and engagement.
· Demonstrated experience in facilitating group decision-making.
· Strong interpersonal, analytical, organizational, planning and verbal and written communication skills a must.
· The ability to collaborate with diverse groups focused on health promotion, prevention, and community organizing.
· Experience in research and evaluation design, community health assessment, research and data analysis highly desirable.
- Demonstrated experience in building the capacity of coalitions for health promotion
- Project management experience highly preferred.
· Degree in Public Health, Public Policy, Community Development, Social Work (macro), or Education preferred. Masters degree highly desirable.
· Bilingual/bicultural with experience working with high-risk populations highly desirable.
· Ability to travel (primarily within the Metrowest region) required. Travel is frequent.
No phone calls, please.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Interested?
To apply, send cover letter and resume by July 10, 2011 to:
Bill Holden
Regional Center For Healthy Communities
552 Massachusetts Ave, Suite 203
Cambridge, MA 02139
E-mail: bholden@healthier-communities.org
