Public Health Consultant - Health Preparedness - HYBRID (PN: 20013838)

What You'll Do

• Provides technical assistance concerning planning, implementation and evaluation of public health and healthcare preparedness programs.
• Implements strategies and goals for local projects that are programmatically out of compliance.
• Monitors and evaluates accomplishments of funded projects through on-site visits, individual phone contacts, conference calls and email communication.
• Participates in annual sharing meetings with regional project staff for the purpose of discussing adherence to proposed action plans to the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) public health, healthcare preparedness guidelines and federal grant requirements.
• Develops and presents education activities and materials related to the public health and health preparedness performance measures, goals, objectives, and benchmarks.
• Assists supervisor in preparing the sub-recipient requests for proposal (RFPs) from the Bureau of Health Preparedness.
• Reviews sub-recipient program progress reports, projects/summarizes objectives, activities, and evaluates spending.
• Reviews regional and other local grant and contract proposals submitted to ODH for funding through federal public health and healthcare preparedness grant funds to determine appropriateness and levels of funding, needed revisions, necessary conditions for funding.
• Schedules and chairs external grant review process for competitive applications.
• Recommends approval or disapproval of the grant request.
• Monitors subgrants and reviews and approves budget revisions, expenditure reports, mid-year and end of year progress reports and performance measure data.
• Applies special conditions and makes recommendations for subgrant funding.
• Monitors and coordinates compliance to subgrant performance measures as they relate to public health and healthcare preparedness.

At the State of Ohio, we take care of the team that cares for Ohioans. We provide a variety of quality, competitive benefits to eligible full-time and part-time employees*. For a list of all the State of Ohio Benefits, visit our Total Rewards website ! Our benefits package includes:

• Medical Coverage
• Free Dental, Vision and Basic Life Insurance premiums after completion of eligibility period
• Paid time off, including vacation, personal, sick leave and 11 paid holidays per year
• Childbirth, Adoption, and Foster Care leave
• Education and Development Opportunities (Employee Development Funds, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and more)
• Public Retirement Systems ( such as OPERS, STRS, SERS, and HPRS ) & Optional Deferred Compensation ( Ohio Deferred Compensation )

*Benefits eligibility is dependent on a number of factors. The Agency Contact listed above will be able to provide specific benefits information for this position.

Qualifications

• 6 mos. exp. in providing direct service &/or consultation in a public health, community health, hospital &/or clinic setting, to include exp. in program evaluation, grant review, developing & presenting training programs & in facilitating &/or working collaboratively with coalitions or groups;
• Completion of graduate core coursework in public health, health care, health administration or related field; must be able to provide own transportation.

OR

• 18 mos. exp. in providing direct service &/or consultation in a public health, community health, hospital &/or clinic setting, to include exp. in program evaluation, grant review, developing & presenting training programs & in facilitating &/or working collaboratively with coalitions or groups;
• Completion of undergraduate core coursework in public health, health care, health administration or related field; must be able to provide own transportation.

OR

• Equivalent of Minimum Class Qualifications for Employment noted above.

Job Skills: Public Health

Technical Skills: Grants Administration, Program Management

Professional Skills: Consultation, Confidentiality, Collaboration, Presenting

Applications of those who meet the minimum qualifications will be further evaluated against the following criteria:

• Experience monitoring grants or contracts
• Graduate or advanced degree in public health, health care, health administration
• Experience in developing guidelines, standards, policy and procedure manuals
• Coursework in public health field or health education
• Experience with computer software (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access)
• Experience in reviewing subgrant budgets and expenditure reports
• Experience developing written reports
• Experience facilitating or coordinating meetings
• Experience providing technical assistance/consultation related to grant compliance
• Experience evaluating emergency preparedness activities

All eligible applications shall be reviewed considering the following criteria: qualifications, experience, education, active disciplinary record, and work record.