Program Implementation and Workforce Development Specialist
WVU Online
part-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Virginia, West Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Support the establishment of accredited DSMES services and other diabetes support programs in priority areas.
- Assist existing programs in tailoring recruitment, retention, and instructional strategies to better serve priority populations.
- Assess the existing diabetes workforce and identify strategies for recruitment, training, and retention of the workforce.
- Develop leadership capacity among program facilitators, lifestyle coaches, and other workforce members engaged in DSMES, diabetes support, and National DPP delivery.
- Facilitate partnerships between healthcare organizations and community-based organizations to expand program reach and improve care coordination.
- Provide technical assistance on evidence-based diabetes programming, workforce development, and program implementation.
- Assist in developing workflows, referral systems, and sustainable practices to integrate evidence-based diabetes care into existing systems.
- Develop and support culturally appropriate materials and recruitment strategies for priority populations.
- Collaborate with health systems to identify eligible patients and facilitate referrals into DSMES, Diabetes Support Programs, and the Diabetes Prevention Programs.
- Document activities for monthly reports.
- Track progress toward scope of work activities, identifying challenges and opportunities for improvement.
- Help maintain a registry of trained program leaders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in public health, health education, healthcare administration, or related field or equivalent professional experience.
- A minimum of three (3) years of experience with DSMES, National DPP, or other evidence-based diabetes programs.
- Demonstrated experience working with primary care systems and safety-net clinics.
- Ability to establish and implement evidence-based health programming.
- Strong project management and leadership skills.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and meet deadlines.
- Willingness and ability to travel in-state for site visits and partner meetings.
- Proficiency in web-based meeting platforms and telephone communication.
- Prior work in workforce development or training program delivery.
- Knowledge of West Virginia’s healthcare landscape.
- Valid driver's license
Benefits
- Paid holidays ( staff holiday calendar )
- Annual leave ( vacation ) days per year
- Sick days per year (for when you’re ill, for when you need time to care for sick family, for your own, or your family’s, regularly scheduled medical appointments. Who is family for the purpose of this leave? A lot of people in your life including immediate relatives and in-laws as well as others considered to be members of your household living under the same roof)
- WVU offers a range of health insurance and other benefits (this position is a benefits-eligible, staff position)
- 401(a) retirement savings with 6% employee contribution match, eligibility to continue health insurance, and other retiree perks.
- Wellness programs
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
DSMESNational DPPevidence-based programmingworkforce developmentprogram implementationrecruitment strategiesretention strategiestraining program deliveryhealth programmingcare coordination
Soft skills
project managementleadershipverbal communicationwritten communicationinterpersonal communicationindependent workmultitaskingdeadline managementcollaborationcultural competency