What are the responsibilities and job description for the Public Health Program Coordinator position at Klamath County?
Klamath County is located in beautiful southern Oregon and home to the city of Klamath Falls, known as the state’s City of Sunshine with over 300 days of sunshine annually! Klamath County offers everything for outdoor adventurers as well as a unique and diverse art community. We are home to Oregon Institute of Technology and Kingsley Field Air Base, where the 173rd Fighter Wing resides. For more information about living in this community, please visit https://lifeinklamath.com/.
Klamath County seeks to find candidates who want to make this beautiful area their home and are looking for a position where their contributions are valued and recognized. Below is a brief overview of the Public Health Program Coordinator position. Please contact Human Resources for a more in-depth description of the job and more details on our extensive benefits package.
General Position Summary
This position identifies community health information, education and promotion needs for the County, and policy interventions regarding behaviors and trends that relate to preventable disease, disability, injury, and death. Engages extensively with the community to plan, lead, and facilitate appropriate interventions and programs in response to health assessments. Creates educational materials to inform community members and decision makers on health-related issues and policy interventions. This position works closely with community partners to advocate for policy change and deliver health education. Requires a high level of skill and knowledge base in public health, policy, systems, and environmental changes, data collection and analysis, and community organizing.
This is a grant-funded position that ends June 30, 2025, with the possibility of extension depending on available grant funding.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Education, Certification, & Experience
- Bachelor's degree from four-year College or university in public health, or a related field; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience working with diverse populations and providing culturally, and linguistically appropriate information preferred.
- Valid and Current Driver's License
- Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Language Skills – Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents such as Oregon Statues. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format. Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
- Mathematical Skills – Ability to work simple math and statistics. Ability to understand descriptive and analytical data.
- Reasoning Ability – Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
- Computer Skills – To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Explorer, Google Chrome Internet software; Word Processing software; Excel Database software and Excel Spreadsheet software.
- Physical Requirements
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Salary and Benefits
This is an hourly, non-exempt position, with a wage range of $ 24.46 - $ 30.94 per hour with an educational degree up to a Bachelor’s. The wage range for having a Master’s degree is $25.69 - $32.49 per hour. The pay range listed here reflects the FULL pay range for this position for the current fiscal year. Salary offers are based on the candidate's equivalent experience and internal equity with other employees within the same job classification.
Klamath County also offers a generous benefits package, including County contributions to health insurance, County contributions to a retirement plan, paid life insurance, paid short term disability, paid time off and more!
Klamath County recognizes and understands the importance of being able to care for yourself and loved ones when your health and safety are affected. To show our support during those difficult events, Klamath County offers all of its employees up to 12 weeks of fully employer paid leave per benefit year for qualifying events.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Working Conditions
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
Work Schedule
This is a regular full-time position. The normal work schedule will be 8.00 hours per day 5 days per week; management assigns exact schedules. It is the attendance standard of the employer that all employees be present and on times each shift they are scheduled to work. Full or partial absence during any scheduled shift, arriving late, or leaving early, for whatever reason, may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment. The Public Health Employee may be required to stay at or return to work during public health incidents and/or emergencies to perform duties specific to his/her position, 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. Work schedules are assigned by management and may include holidays and weekends.
Pre-screening Requirements
- DMV Records Verification
- State of Oregon DHS Background Investigation
Salary : $24 - $32
