Health Services Manager I (Emergency Response)

Salary: $66,794 - $104,702

Position Grade: 17G

Department: Health

Job Type Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number: EX1365

Location: St. Louis, MO

The Emergency Preparedness and Response Health Services Manager I reports to the Health Services Manager II in Environmental Health. The incumbent is responsible for coordinating the department’s emergency response activities and supervising staff in severe weather conditions, which may involve evenings and weekends. Travel to local regional, state, and national meetings as required. The incumbent supervises two Emergency Management Specialists and interns. The incumbent is responsible for providing input on budgets, developing program goals, and monitoring grant activities in support of new initiatives and partnering organizations.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Maintain expertise in public health and emergency response issues.

• Coordinate all aspects of the Department’s All-Hazards Emergency Response Plan.

• Manage emergency response grants – Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP), Cities Readiness Initiatives (CRI) – ensuring all deliverables/ requirements are met.

• Supervise Emergency Management Specialists/ Severe Weather & Community Resilience Program.

• Ensure the Department meets or exceeds state and federal emergency preparedness and response expectations through bi-annual program reviews.

• Ensure the Department maintains appropriate readiness capacity to convene, deploy, and sustain Health Emergency Operations Center activities in anticipation of and continuing through emergency events.

• Create and provide and/or coordinate training opportunities for Department staff in emergency response.

• Create and provide training for community partners in emergency response.

• Create and provide progressive exercises for Departmental staff from discussion-based tabletops through full-scale exercises.

• Maintain local, regional, and state cooperative relationships with all emergency response partners (governments, public sector, and private sector) through regular meetings and participation in workgroups and committees.

• Support PHAB reaccreditation initiatives and documentation requirements, to include quality improvement projects and policy development.

• Recruit and develop programs to engage public health volunteers.

• Ensure educational and promotional literature is available and accessible to all the City’s defined vulnerable and at-risk populations.

• Ensure attendance, participation, and engagement at community events to provide education on preparing for emergency events.

• Perform and/or supervise administrative duties pertaining to Emergency Preparedness/ Severe Weather & Community Resilience.

• Attend national and state level conferences and trainings to maintain awareness and competence in best practice standards, emerging federal and state policies and regulations, and new grant opportunities.

• Pursue opportunities to present program highlights and accomplishments through posters and presentations at local, state and national meetings.

• Research and pursue new grant/ funding opportunities.

• Contribute expertise to the Department’s efforts in sustaining National Incident Management System (NIMS) standards, National Health Security Strategic Implementation Plan, National Association of County and City Health Officials’ Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) program, and Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) standards.

• Participate as a Departmental Duty Officer and serve on the Department’s on-call rotation schedule.

• Prepare written reports as requested on Emergency Preparedness/ Severe Weather & Community Resilience program activities and continuous quality improvement efforts.

• Manage and/or supervise all contracts’ memorandum of understanding, and mutual aid agreements associated with Emergency Preparedness/Severe Weather & Community Resilience programs.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• The incumbent must be adept at research and self-directed continuous learning to stay abreast of latest guidance and evidence-informed best practices.

• Must be able to stand up for 12 to 36-hour shifts in the event of a man-made biological event, severe weather event, or any other emerging event requiring incident command.

• Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform mid to upper-level data analysis including the ability to coordinate, strategize, systemize and correlate, using discretion in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations within an organizational framework. Requires the ability to implement decisions based on such data, and overseeing the execution of these decisions.

• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to manage and direct a large group of employees, which may include firstline supervisors. Oversees and controls employee discipline, selection and allocation, and planning of human resources.

• Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as computer terminal, calculator, printer, fax machine, overhead/slide projector and/or materials used in performing essential functions.

• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information such as budgets, expenditure reports, grant applications, service contracts, program reports, public health statistics, personnel policies, performance appraisals, program manuals, regulations, ordinances, statutes, procedures, guidelines and non-routine correspondence.

• Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentage and decimals; interpret and develop descriptive statistical reports.

• Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems such as supervision, managing, leading, teaching, directing, planning, coordinating and controlling. Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution.

• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the direction, control and planning of an entire program or multiple programs

• Environmental Factors: Tasks are regularly performed in safe and comfortable surroundings without exposure to adverse environmental conditions.

• Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to lift files and presentation materials weighing up to twenty (20) pounds.

• Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify degrees of similarities or differences between characteristics of shapes to clearly distinguish objects and sounds to communicate with others.
  

A Bachelor’s degree in Emergency Management; Crisis and Disaster Management; Public Health or a related field; plus four years of professional public health experience that includes at least one year of emergency preparedness research and planning experience. OR an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Certification: Must be able to obtain certification in National Incident Management System (NIMS 100, 200, 300, 400, 700, 800, 808) as a condition of successfully completing working test period. Certification in the Principles of Public Health, or ability to obtain within 3 months of hire. Certification in Continuous Quality Improvement, or ability to obtain within 3 months of hire.

Preferences: Experience in grant management; program development; supervising staff; public speaking and developing presentations.

License: Must possess and maintain a valid Missouri driver's license while employed by the City of St. Louis. Must possess a valid driver's license at the time of filing application and be able to present it upon request. Please note type of license, number, class and expiration date on the Employment Application.

Scoring Components and Their Weights
Experience and Training: 100%
May be Subject to:
Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
Medical Examination: Pass/Fail

Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request

When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Veterans Preference Points

To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.

City Residence Preference Points

City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.

Accommodations

If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.