5610 Associate Director – Communications and Public Health Transformation - OPHI

 

POSITION IDENTIFICATION

TITLE Associate Director – Communications and Public Health Transformation - OPHI

CLASSIFICATION NUMBER 5610

GRADE 46

CLASSIFICATION Exempt

IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR Director, Ozarks Public Health Institute

GENERAL FUNCTION

The Associate Director - Communications and Public Health Transformation (CPHT) - Ozarks Public Health (OPHI) is part of the OPHI team and contributes to active projects. This position develops and implements communication plans for OPHI and its partners. This role will coordinate public health system initiatives in Missouri to improve the public health infrastructure. The Associate Director – CPHT - OPHI will seek external funding, and assist in developing and maintaining collaborative partnerships with local public health agencies, professional organizations, community organizations, health care professionals, and community partners to improve program delivery and meet program deliverables

MINIMUM ACCEPTABLE

Education: A Bachelor’s degree in a health related field is required. A Master’s degree in public health or health-related degree is preferred. An equivalent combination of years of experience and education may be considered for substitution of educational requirements.

Experience: At least five years of experience in public health administration or other health-related management field is required. Experience working at a local public health agency or state public health department is preferred. Public speaking, fiscal management, and project planning experience is required.

Skills: The ability to be the lead in communication strategy development and implementation is required. The capability to coordinate development and dissemination of electronic and print communication materials as well as the ability to oversee communication channels, including social media, websites, newsletters, and list-serves is required. The expertise to monitor project work plans and evaluate outcomes as well as competence to provide technical assistance and delivery of professional development opportunities and train public health practitioners and system partners is required. The understanding and application of public health transformation is required. The ability to independently manage the details associated with multiple projects, track activities, and meet deadlines is required. Good interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills are required.

Other: This position is grant funded. Continuation of this position is contingent upon available grant or contract funding.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Responsible for supporting the Director of Ozark Public Health Institute (OPHI) in the overall development, coordination, supervision, implementation, assessment and services on grants and contracts in addition to representing OPHI at meetings.

2. Assists the Director in overseeing the effective utilization of the department budget and monitors expenditures for OPHI accounts, provides recommendations for optimum utilization of funds, helps to monitor communication plan deadlines with internal and external agencies, and communicates with Financial Services to meet their requirements and requests.

3. Develops and implements communication plans for OPHI and its partners. Coordinate development and dissemination of electronic and print communication materials as required.

4. Oversees external communication plans, and assist in developing and maintaining collaborative partnerships with local public health agencies, professional organizations, community organizations, health care professionals, and community partners to improve program delivery and meet program deliverables.

5. Assists the Director in monitoring and reporting on strategic plan activities to OPHI staff and partners.

6. Provides technical assistance and delivery of professional development opportunities and train public health practitioners and system partners

7. Represents OPHI in leadership positions in public health transformation and communication.

8. Complies with Missouri State University personnel, purchasing, and grant and contract administration policies and procedures and fulfills requirements of established funding sources by accomplishing communication program goals and targets, coordinate public health system initiatives in Missouri to improve the public health infrastructure, maintaining assigned projects and activities within approved operations.

9. Provides technical assistance to public health practitioners and system partners, manage data and produce reports and communication channels, including social media, websites, newsletters, and list-serves.

10. The incumbent must possess strong communication and social skills, take initiative, work independently, be persistent and sensitive in follow up, and maintain strict confidence with sensitive information.

11. Contributes to a work environment that encourages knowledge of, respect for, and development of skills to engage with those of other cultures or backgrounds.

12. Remains competent and current through self-directed professional reading, developing professional contacts with colleagues, attending professional development courses, attending appropriate regional, statewide, and national meetings, participating on committees as required, an attending training and/or courses as directed by the OPHI Director.

13. Helps to assure the overall success of OPHI by performing all other duties in accordance with grant contracts and as assigned by the Director, OPHI.

SUPERVISION

The Associate Director - Communications and Public Health Transformation (CPHT) - Ozarks Public Health (OPHI) supervises full-time, part-time, student workers and graduate assistants.

OFFICE OF HUMAN RESOURCES

REVISED NOVEMBER 2023

JOB FAMILY 4

Factor 1: Professional Knowledge, Skill, and Technical Mastery

Level 5.0 - 3300 Points: Knowledge of the principles and methods of an administrative, managerial, or professional field such as accounting or auditing, financial management, information technology, business administration, human resources, engineering, law, social sciences, communications, education, or medicine. Knowledge permits employee to supervise projects and/or departments using standard methods to improve administrative and/or line operations. Knowledge also permits employee to plan steps and carry out multi-phase projects requiring problem definition and modified techniques, to coordinate work with others, and to modify methods and procedures to solve a wide variety of problems. Knowledge at this level requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree with substantial related work experience, including up to two years of administrative or supervisory experience. Alternatively, this level may require a professional or clinical degree beyond the Bachelor's degree with moderate related work experience; knowledge requirements include significant levels of related work experience.

Factor 2: Supervisory Responsibility

Level 2.0 - 130 Points: Regular, but limited, supervision, training, or directing the work assignments of (a) small numbers of student, part-time or temporary workers, or (b) one or more permanent, full-time employees. The nature of supervision is largely confined to scheduling work and assigning tasks. Supervision at this level typically does not include a full range of supervisory responsibilities, and supervisory duties typically do not consume a large portion of the work day.

Factor 3: Interactions with Others

Level 4.0 - 500 Points: Interactions with others are somewhat unstructured. The purpose may be to influence or motivate others, to obtain information, or to control situations and resolve problems. Interactions may be with individuals or groups of co-workers, students, or the general public, may be moderately unstructured, and may involve persons who hold differing goals and objectives. Individuals at this level often act as a liaison between groups with a focus on solving particular unstructured problems. Interactions at this level require considerable interpersonal skill and the ability to resolve conflict.

Factor 4: Job Controls and Guidelines

Level 3.0 - 500 Points: The employee operates under general supervision expressed in terms of program goals and objectives, priorities, and deadlines. Administrative supervision is given through statements of overall program or project objectives and available resources. Administrative guidelines are relatively comprehensive and the employee need only to fill in gaps in interpretation and adapt established methods to perform recurring activities. In unforeseen situations, the employee must interpret inadequate or incomplete guidelines, develop plans, and initiate new methods to complete assignments based on those interpretations. Assignments are normally related in function, but the work requires many different processes and methods applied to an established administrative or professional field. Problems are typically the result of unusual circumstances, variations in approach, or incomplete or conflicting data. The employee must interpret and refine methods to complete assignments. Characteristic jobs at this level may involve directing single-purpose programs or performing complex, but precedented, technical or professional work.

Factor 5: Managerial Responsibility

Level 4.0 - 1500 Points: Work involves the primary accountability for a smaller department, program, or process. Work activities involve managerial decisions that directly affect the efficiency, costs, reputation, and service quality of the department, program, or process. Work affects a limited range of professional projects or administrative activities of the University. Work activities have a direct and substantial impact on the department. While work activities do have some effect on the efficiency and reputation of the cost center, departments, programs, or processes at this level represent a relatively minor function within the cost center. Employees in jobs at this level may have responsibility for developing budgets, distributing budgeted funds, and exercising the primary control over a relatively small budget.