Community Health Extender, Program Coordinator – Cancer Prevention and Control
WVU Online
Community Health Extender, Program Coordinator – Cancer Prevention and Control
WVU Online
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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About the role
- Identifies, develops, and maintains partnerships with strategic stakeholders, community, and professional partners, and various community-based organizations throughout West Virginia and the Appalachian region
- Collaborates with internal and external partners to build capacity to address cancer burden; including assisting with community needs assessments, attending and coordinating community meetings, and providing bidirectional communication
- Conducts, in partnership, at least two monthly community focused cancer control activities in the assigned region
- Responsible for the design, development, and implementation of community outreach and engagement plans for the assigned region, including dissemination of public/patient educational materials, outreach and promotion materials, and communication campaigns
- Coordinates and facilitates internal and external programmatic meetings to monitor progress of projects or initiatives as assigned, including developing agendas, facilitating meetings, recording meeting minutes, disseminating meeting minutes and action items, and monitoring progress on identified action items and program deliverables
- Contributes to the design, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of innovative, culturally appropriate, evidence-based programs, content, and services; provides technical assistance and expertise in program planning, implementation, evaluation, and applied research
- Fosters opportunities for bidirectional research between WVUCI and the community and assists with implementation or recruitment of research projects in the community
- Documents program progress and submits monthly reports, assessing strengths/weaknesses, and develops and implements strategies to improve outcomes and deliverables
- Develops and disseminates cancer information creating resources such as handouts, flyers, presentations, internal and external communications, videos, photographs, posters, infographics, social media, websites, etc.
- Assists with applications for additional funding opportunities for CPC projects and provides data to support development of documentation as required by internal and external stakeholders
- Develops and delivers presentations on cancer prevention, cancer screening, health literacy, and cultural competency
- Serves on local and statewide coalitions and taskforces and submits or assists with submission of articles, abstracts, and posters to promote programmatic work, research, and outreach of CPC
- Functions as a member of the CPC staff and participates in regular team meetings, training sessions, program meetings, conferences and seminars; completes all required WVU training and certifications
- Collaborates with other CPC staff and programs to extend the reach of CPC and assists with other CPC program activities as requested by leadership
- Position is remotely based within a designated multi-county region and will require frequent travel throughout the state; supports counties including Berkeley, Grant, Jefferson, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Morgan, Pendleton, Preston, Tucker, and Garrett County, MD
- Remote position requires attending meetings and training at the CPC office on campus at least one day per month (on-campus work station provided)
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in appropriate discipline: public health, health communications, social work, social sciences, nursing, health education, healthcare administration, marketing, or other healthcare professions degree
- Master's degree is preferred
- A minimum of two (2) years of combined experience in: Coordinating health education programs; Community event planning; Group dynamics, leadership; Program assessment; Data collection; and project management
- An equivalent combination of related education and/or experience will be considered
- All qualifications must be met by the time of employment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong time management, organization, and multi-tasking skills
- Ability to establish priorities, adhere to deadlines, have high attention to detail and follow through, and ability to maintain confidentiality
- Skilled at writing correspondence and preparing reports
- Ability to operate necessary computer, software (Microsoft Office), web-based and other high-tech equipment relative to the program
- Skilled in establishing and maintaining cooperative working relationships
- Ability to work in multidisciplinary team environment and to coordinate participation of team members from various backgrounds
- Skilled in group facilitation, mediation, and conflict resolution
- Ability to manage health education programs, event planning, group dynamics, leadership, program assessment, evaluation, and practice facilitation
- Ability to work as part of a team and with a significant degree of independence
- Ability to travel frequently with occasional overnight stays, working outside the traditional work week as needed
- Ability to maintain proper attendance and punctuality standards
- Willingness to seek consultation and supervision as needed
- Knowledge of current health issues, health education and behavioral theories, and health information needs of the medically underserved preferred
- Ability to interact sensitively, effectively, and professionally with persons from various cultural, socioeconomic, educational, racial, ethnic, and professional backgrounds, including persons of all ages and orientations
- Ability to rapidly learn institution, federal, and state statutes and regulations impacting the work
- Preferred: Experience with community outreach and education, public communication, evaluation, community event planning, program assessment, and research
- Preferred: CITI Certification preferred
