ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Planner Duties and Responsibilities:
- Facilitates the KaRe to Achieve Committee, a Kandiyohi-Renville leadership and public health planning team focusing on local public health assessment and planning initiatives.
- Develops and conducts the Community Health Assessment (CHA) in conjunction with community partners.
- Develops, implements, and evaluates the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), a long-term, ongoing, systematic effort to address public health problems in the community, with the goal of equitably improving resident health.
- Project manages the CHIP work plan by addressing goals, objectives, and strategies.
- Gathers best-practices, benchmarks set by health planning initiatives and other state and local plans and data sources, and community input related to the CHIP.
- Provides community health planning expertise to the community needs assessment process, health improvement goal setting, program development, identification of public health ordinance and policy action options, and creation of monitoring and evaluation plans.
- Recommends and supports development of data-informed strategies and programs in alignment with evidence-based practices and the CHIP or other community initiatives.
- Analyzes gaps, liabilities, opportunities, and strategies in the context of specific population health challenges facing communities.
- Leads multi-sector community-centered planning efforts to integrate and implement strategies to improve the community's health and promote health equity throughout diverse populations.
- Develops, implements, and manages continuous improvement strategies and organizational strategic planning processes.
- Assures that Kandiyohi-Renville CHB Local Public Health Assessment and Planning requirements and processes are completed, submitted, implemented, and updated per Minnesota statute 145A.
- Contributes to the development of organizational competencies that strengthen the quality and performance of public health practice.
- Participates in organizational capacity building and training activities to advance public health competencies.
- Leads and facilitates meetings with agency staff, as directed, to analyze process and program performance, identify challenges, and use data to drive decision-making, prioritization, consensus action planning, and evaluation.
- Assists the CHB and the departments with quality improvement opportunities that refine/enhance the diversity, equity, and inclusion of programs and services.
- Develops public health/projects/program messaging appropriate for targeted audiences for dissemination through CHB and department webpages, social media, and other public-facing presentations.
- Participates in and supports community-based coalitions that examine health data, set goals, and develop plans to improve health.
- Assists with the development and implementation of community outreach and engagement activities and events designed to foster relationships and provide feedback to inform program planning and activities.
Data Analyst Duties and Responsibilities:
- Analyzes and interprets public health data and prepares narratives and reports that identify gaps, errors, and trends and effectively communicates recommendations, solutions or alternative responses to real or potential health challenges facing communities.
- Works with management to identify new and creative opportunities to leverage shared data to support additional program improvement processes or functions.
- Maintains and refines reports, dashboards, and processes to continuously monitor data quality and integrity.
- Identifies public health data and information to be shared with the public and assists in the development of messaging for disseminating public health data.
- Analyzes data and interprets results to determine root causes of health disparities and inequities, address the diversity of individuals and populations, and assists in the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of policies, programs, and services.
- Coordinates a comprehensive community health assessment process by collecting, analyzing, and using data to inform and mobilize communities, develop priorities, garner resources, and plan actions to improve the public's health.
- Designs, coordinates, and implements surveys and research projects that lead to the collection, compilation, and analysis of data for use by the departments on specific issues.
- Identifies and cultivates relationships with community partners to foster sharing of data and confirmation of data that accurately describes the community's health.
- Consults with department staff, clients, and community partners to collect and prepare relevant data from primary sources, records, or reports.
- Designs, develops, and presents data for use in planning related to quality improvement, proposed legislation communications, budget, resource and ordinance and policy work, intervention program, and community education.
- Organizes and formats data in a way that is tailored to specific audiences.
Other Key Responsibilities:
- Assumes leadership role and completes assigned duties related to public health emergency response; assumes assigned NIMS roles and duties during emergencies and drills.
- Performs other related work assignments as directed or as it becomes apparent.
JOB RELATIONSHIPSInternal Interactions in both Kandiyohi and Renville counties with: County Agency Staff, Board of Commissioners, County Administration, and Kandiyohi-Renville Community Health BoardExternal Interactions with: General Public, Minnesota Department of Health, Department of Human Services, City Administrations/ Leaders, Health Care Agencies, Schools, and Community Groups and Organizations and BusinessesQUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTSTo perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily (see above). The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.Education and Experience:
- Requires a bachelor's degree in Public Health, Nursing, Health Administration, Community Health, Health Promotion, Health Education, or closely related field.
- Prior experience is desired in working with public health or a closely related field for community and systems interventions; health promotion strategies and evaluation; community organizing, management, and partnerships for a healthy community.
- Valid driver's license.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Knowledge of program development and community change theory and methods; and community health assessment methods, tools, and techniques including setting of goals, objectives, establishing and evaluating outcomes. Knowledge of epidemiology, social determinants of health, disease prevention, health promotion, behavioral change, and group process; data sources and basic epidemiologic, math and statistical terms, data analysis; program planning implementation and evaluation. Knowledge of program subject matter. Knowledge of performance management, quality improvement, and strategic planning processes.Skill in building consensus; effectively building and maintaining trusting relationships with community partners, staff and the public; meeting deadlines; facilitating and leading planning processes with diverse groups; planning, teamwork and organizational change; planning and coordinating community-centered events, meetings, and presentations; application of principles, practices, and theories of public health assessment and planning related to health promotion, policy development, health improvement, and preparedness planning; communicating effectively and collaboratively with individuals and groups from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences; databases and spreadsheet usage; usage of presentation and publisher software; excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication; developing SMART objectives. Strong time management and organizational skills. Proficiency in using a computer including Microsoft Office (including PowerPoint, Excel, and Word) and adapting to other software programs.Abilities: Requires a high level of motivation, initiative, and enthusiasm with a strong independent work ethic. Must have strong time management, organizational and prioritization skills, sound decision-making ability and judgment, and solid data analysis abilities. Ability to concurrently manage multiple complex projects by prioritizing work based on organizational and departmental needs and responsibilities. Ability to defuse stressful situations and respond accordingly. Ability to define problems, collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data, identify trends and establish facts, and draw valid conclusions and recommend actions. Ability to create detailed reports and visual aids with a high degree of accuracy.Physical Demands:This work requires the occasional exertion of up to 25 pounds of force; work regularly requires sitting, speaking or hearing, using hands to finger, handle or feel and repetitive motions and occasionally requires standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, reaching with hands and arms, pushing or pulling and lifting; work has standard vision requirements; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels; work requires preparing and analyzing data, operating machines and observing general surroundings and activities; work has infrequent exposure to environmental conditions; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic). Demands flexibility in hours and may require occasional evening or weekend hours for accomplishing work. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Selection Process:Applications will be accepted until 12/18/2024.Interviews will be held in person in Willmar, MN the morning of 12/23/24.