Strategic Partnerships Coordinator

Salary: $6,282.00 - $8,840.00 Monthly
Location : 98337-1866, WA
Job Type: Regular Full-Time
Job Number: 2024-002
Department: Public Health Infrastructure
Opening Date: 01/26/2024
Closing Date: 2/19/2024 11:59 PM Pacific
Job Summary
Strategic Partnerships Coordinator
Our Role: Please come join our team to do meaningful work that has a real impact in our community. We are a team-oriented, family-friendly organization over 130 dedicated public health professionals. We work hard every day to keep our community safe and healthy. Keeping you and your family - and our county and its many visitors safe is our job. It could be your job too!
The Position: The incumbent in this position strives to meet the mission of the Kitsap Public Health District through the development and support of relationships with a variety of local, regional, state and national partners. Through these Strategic Partnerships, the incumbent will support the assessment, exploration, prioritization, development and evaluation of initiatives to prevent disease and protect and promote the health of all people in Kitsap County. The principles of prevention, collaboration, quality, equity, and innovation guide the efforts of our Health District.
Within Health District polices, under the supervision of the Public Health Infrastructure Division Director and guidance from the Health Officer, the duties of the Strategic Partnerships Coordinator, in the classification of Program Coordinator 2, include complex project management, partnership development, facilitation of convenings and collaboratives, and research and analysis of best and promising practices to bolster public health. Key partners include sector representatives from healthcare, social services, education, government and elected officials, and residents of our community.
The incumbent will have a key role in monitoring and improving healthcare access advancing and the recommendations from the Healthcare System Challenges and Opportunities Assessment by Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security published in January 2024. Additionally, the incumbent will oversee the collaborative community process to develop, implement, and evaluate the Community Health Improvement Plan.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Responsibilities are complex in terms of the impact to District operations, visibility, and the level of interaction with external stakeholders and partners. Work is governed generally by broad instructions and objectives usually involving topics requiring considerable judgment, initiative, creativity, and/or ingenuity.
Community awareness and sensitive and appropriate handling of a political environment are functions of the position. The incumbent will receive leadership direction with assignments in terms of broad practice, precedents, policy making, and program and agency goals. Work will be reviewed for fulfillment of assigned objectives and for conformity to current agency policy and practice. The work requires significant judgment, initiative, creativity, and ingenuity in areas where there may be little previous example. Work requires the ability to plan and perform involved or technical work presenting new and regularly changing problems and to deal with complex factors not easily evaluated.
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 evening and weekend work may be required for public meetings. A limited telework or other alternative work arrangements may be established as mutually beneficial after adequate onboarding and 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.
The ideal candidate has a passion for public health, an understanding of multi-sector community initiatives, enjoys working with others, and brings humility, initiative, and inertia to the work.
This is a non-union position and is exempt from the minimum wage and overtime requirement of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
Essential Functions

• Provides a systems-level perspective effectively convening and facilitating meetings and discussions related to complex issues with diverse partners.
  
• Performs liaison activities by managing resources, organizing, and implementing comprehensive initiatives and activities at a community or regional level.
  
• Develops work plans and utilizes project management methods to guide, monitor, and evaluate implementation.
  
• Establishes cooperative relationships and works with community groups, agencies, and individuals in understanding complex issues.
  
• Coordinates the District's community health assessment and improvement process, i.e., Kitsap Community Health Priorities (KCHP).
  
• Collaboratively identifies and implements partner and community engagement strategies that support and enhance KCHP.
  
• Develops a strategic plan and monitoring framework for implementing priority recommendations from the comprehensive healthcare systems assessment.
• Works with representatives from state agencies (Department of Social and Health Services, Department of Children, Youth, and Families, Department of Commerce) to collectively develop a long-term strategy and proposed legislation to improve behavioral healthcare access in Kitsap.
• Collaborates with the Assessment and Epidemiology program to implement research and information gathering strategies including reviews, assessments, scans and evaluations and perform data analysis to develop findings, interpretations and data-informed guidance.
  
• Interprets study findings and presents study designs, methodologies, and findings to internal and external audiences.
  
• Actively implements commitments set forth in Kitsap Public Health Board Resolution 2023-04 and ensures alignment and compliance with national and state guidelines.
  
• Participates and provides expertise and consultation in health planning and policy development.
  
• Provides education, training and technical assistance.
  
• Implements strategies to develop public interest in and support of programs.
  
• Provides facilitation for the strategic development of programs that address potential and emerging gaps in Kitsap County's public health system.
  
• Supports local public-private partnerships and multi-sector models for innovative work.
  
• Promotes strategic engagement and partnerships between federal, state, and local governmental public health agencies, federally qualified health centers, healthcare systems, providers, mental health and addiction treatment services, community partners, and academia.
  
• Collaborates across Kitsap Public Health District divisions and programs.
  
• Actively participates on assigned committees, makes presentations, presents recommendations, and provides updates to the Board, District leadership and management as appropriate.
  
• Prioritizes and plans own work activities. Uses work time and resources effectively.
  
• Maintains accurate and organized records, databases, systems, and files.
  
• Prepares a variety of 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 thoughts using proper sentence construction, punctuation, and grammar.
  
• Directly supervises program employees; assigns work and establishes priorities and performance standards; monitors performance and provides effective feedback, coaching, and mentorship.
  
• Works both independently and within a collaborative team-oriented environment; contributes openly, respectfully disagrees, understands the ideas of others, listens well, and works for consensus.
  
• Demonstrates cultural competency and cultural humility and embeds equity into all aspects of assigned work and associated interactions.
  
• 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 incremental continuous improvement and assurance.
  
• Responds to public health emergencies as required by the District.
  
• Establishes and maintains cooperative, effective working relationships with coworkers, other District employees, Health Board members, community partners and the general public using principles of good customer service.
  
• Accurately completes and submits electronic timecards on a weekly basis as required.
  
• Reports for scheduled work with regular, reliable, and punctual attendance.
  
• Performs other duties as assigned.

WORK ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Work is performed primarily indoors in an office environment, with occasional travel to make presentations, attend meetings, conferences, seminars, etc.
• Requires the ability to communicate with others orally, face to face and by telephone. Requires manual finger dexterity and hand-eye-arm coordination to write and to operate computers and a variety of general office equipment. Requires mobility to accomplish other desktop work, retrieve files, and to move to various locations. Requires visual acuity to read computer screens, printed materials, and detailed information. Essential duties may involve occasional kneeling, squatting, crouching, stooping, crawling, standing, bending, climbing (to stack, sore or retrieve supplies or various office equipment).
• May occasionally be required to work a varying schedule which may include evenings and weekends.
• Duties require carrying a cell phone or other electronic device as well as being available to work as needed to meet District needs, which may include evenings, weekends, and holidays.
• Exposure to individuals from the public who are upset, angry agitated and sometimes hostile, requiring the use of conflict management and coping skills.
• The environment is dynamic and constantly changing, resulting in continually re-evaluating and shifting priorities.
• Occasionally, the incumbent in this position may be required to lift and/or carry objects and materials weighing up to twenty pounds. Rarely, the incumbent in the position may be required to lift and/or carry objects and materials weighing up to fifty pounds to move educational displays; set up training areas, etc.
• May be required to stay at or return to work during public health incidents and/or emergencies to perform duties specific to this classification 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.

Education & Experience
A bachelor's degree in a field related to the position with three years of related work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
Professional experiences in public health, social work, healthcare administration, healthcare programs OR master's degree or higher in public health, healthcare or policy administration, organizational leadership, law, or closely related field.
Alternatively, an equivalent combination of education, experience and professional certification may be qualifying provided the individual's background demonstrates the required knowledge, skills and abilities.
Degrees must be from appropriately accredited institutions.
Licenses, Certificates & Other Requirements
Performance of job duties requires driving on an occasional basis, a valid Washington State driver license, and proof of appropriate auto insurance. Use of a reliable personal vehicle is required when a District fleet vehicle is not available for use.
KNOWLEDGE & ABILITIES
Knowledge

• Knowledge and familiarity with foundational public health services.
• Knowledge of health systems structures, reimbursement, and joint venture models.
• Knowledge of health and social issues facing diverse populations.
• Experience in project management, policy development and issue prioritization processes.
• Experience in developing Memoranda of Understanding and Inter-Agency Agreements.
• Demonstrated excellent communication and networking skills, including public speaking, writing, group facilitation, and communicating cross - culturally with diverse partners, and interacting with people of all ages and cultural backgrounds.
• Knowledge of equity-based frameworks.
• Computer operation and a variety of software including word processing, spreadsheet, database, and other applications related to the area of assignment.

Ability

• Demonstrates experience with eliciting feedback and sharing information in ways that show cultural humility, respect, and builds trust.
• Demonstrates ability to integrate community voice, feedback, needs and preferences into program plans and projects.
• Is community minded and equity centered, including centered on racial equity.
• Develops and maintains relationships with diverse communities and ac...