What are the responsibilities and job description for the Public Health Preparedness Field Coordinator position at ATC?
Title : Public Health Preparedness District Coordinator
Location : Indianapolis, IN
Interview : - Webcam
IDOH DEP District & Local Readiness-Public Health Preparedness District Coordinator
The Public Health Preparedness District Coordinator serves as the primary point of contact for Local Health Departments (LHDs) within their assigned District for all issues relating to IDOH-Division of Emergency Preparedness, planning, training, exercises, goals, and objectives. The Public Health District Coordinator serves at the direction of the Director of District and Local Readiness and respective IDOH DEP Regional Supervisor to their area.
The overarching responsibility of the Public Health Preparedness District Coordinator is to identify overall preparedness gaps and needs of local health departments within their District, assist with plan development, revision, assist with trainings and exercises, assist with grants management and relay information to their respective Regional Supervisor and assist in directing Local Health Departments to information and other resources appropriate to address their needs. It is also the responsibility of the Public Health Preparedness District Coordinator to work closely with the Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) Regional Coordinator to help facilitate coordination between local public health and healthcare partners on preparedness efforts that would require or benefit from collaboration between the two programs entities. This position will also work closely with other program areas within IDOH DPE such as Planning & Preparedness, Health Equity & Diversity, Mobile Operations Response as well as IDOH DEP Grants Management.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities :
- Communicate regularly and frequently with the Regional Supervisor to share the needs, challenges, and accomplishments of the local health departments within the assigned District and to receive instructions and guidance and relay key information.
- Attend in person IDOH DEP meetings as scheduled as well as all scheduled virtual team meetings
- Participate in IDOH-Division of Emergency Preparedness conference calls and staff meetings as scheduled by the respective program Director and Regional Supervisors.
- Attend all regularly scheduled monthly LHD meetings and monthly district LHD Meetings
- Attend scheduled District Coalition meetings along with the HPP Coordinator assigned to the district as well as any additional health department related meetings or events as assigned by Regional Supervisor.
- Identify and communicate any planning, training, and exercise support needs or activities to Regional Supervisor.
- Provide guidance and answer questions to IDOH preparedness efforts or direct them to where they may obtain the requested guidance when necessary.
- Responsible for tracking grant deliverable progress and completion during preparedness activities, data collection efforts, and inventory tracking as directed.
- Complete any reporting and / or tracking forms and documents as identified and requested by Regional Supervisor and / or Director.
- Assist in coordinating Medical Countermeasure (MCM) Operational Readiness Review(s) (ORR) in CRI jurisdictions as needed.
- Submit summary reports of coalition or district meeting, individual meetings summarized, etc. via Microsoft Teams and communicate essential information to Regional Supervisor
Public Health Preparedness Field Coordinator - Expectations
