Public Health Planner

JOB
Plans, organizes, develops, administers, implements, coordinates, and evaluates community health improvement strategies. Analyzes complex data to assist the departments and other community partners to develop and evaluate goals, objectives, targets, timeframes, policies, programs, and services.Completes complex organizational and administrative tasks related to the development and implementation of community health assessment, the Community Health Improvement Plan, strategic planning, performance management, and quality improvement.Leads community health improvement efforts in partnership with health care and community leaders representing widely diverse sectors of the community.Collects, analyzes, queries, shares, and visualizes data from a variety of different domains.Uses data to guide interventions aimed at improving the health of the community.

EXAMPLE OF DUTIES
Facilitates the KaRe to Achieve committee, a Kandiyohi-Renville leadership and public health planning team focusing on local public health assessment and planning initiatives. Develops and conducts the Community Health Assessment (CHA) in conjunction with community partners. Develops, implements, and evaluates the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), a long-term, ongoing, systematic effort to address public health problems in the community, with the goal of equitably improving resident health. Project manages the CHIP work plan by addressing goals, objectives, and strategies.Gathers best-practices, benchmarks set by health planning initiatives and other state and local plans and data sources, and community input related to the CHIP.Provides community health planning expertise to the community needs assessment process, health improvement goal setting, program development, identification of public health ordinance and policy action options, and creation of monitoring and evaluation plans.Recommends and supports development of data-informed strategies and programs in alignment with evidence-based practices and the CHIP or other community initiatives. Analyzes gaps, liabilities, opportunities, and strategies in the context of specific population health challenges facing communities.Leads multi-sector community-centered planning efforts to integrate and implement strategies to improve the community’s health and promote health equity throughout diverse populations.Develops, implements, and manages continuous improvement strategies and organizational strategic planning processes. Assures that Kandiyohi-Renville CHB Local Public Health Assessment and Planning requirements and processes are completed, submitted, implemented, and updated per Minnesota statue 145A. Contributes to the development of organizational competencies that strengthen the quality and performance of public health practice.Participates in organizational capacity building and training activities to advance public health competencies.Leads and facilitates meetings with agency staff, as directed, to analyze process and program performance, identify challenges, and use data to drive decision-making, prioritization, consensus action planning, and evaluation.Assists the CHB and the departments with quality improvement opportunities that refine/enhance the diversity, equity, and inclusion of programs and services.Develops public health/projects/program messaging appropriate for targeted audiences for dissemination through CHB and department webpages, social media, and other public-facing presentations.Participates in and supports community-based coalitions that examine health data, set goals, and develop plans to improve health. Assists with the development and implementation of community outreach and engagement activities and events designed to foster relationships and provide feedback to inform program planning and activities. Analyzes and interprets public health data and prepares narratives and reports that identify gaps, errors, and trends and effectively communicates recommendations, solutions or alternative responses to real or potential health challenges facing communities.Works with management to identify new and creative opportunities to leverage shared data to support additional program improvement processes or functions. Maintains and refines reports, dashboards, and processes to continuously monitor data quality and integrity. Identifies public health data and information to be shared with the public, and assists in the development of messaging for disseminating public health data.Coordinates a comprehensive community health assessment process by collecting, analyzing, and using data to inform and mobilize communities, develop priorities, garner resources, and plan actions to improve the public’s health.Designs, coordinates, and implements surveys and research projects that lead to the collection, compilation, and analysis of data for use by the departments on specific issues.Identifies and cultivates relationships with community partners to foster sharing of data and confirmation of data that accurately describes the community’s health.Consults with department staff, clients, and community partners to collect and prepare relevant data from primary sources, records, or reports.Designs, develops, and presents data for use in planning related to quality improvement, proposed legislation communications, budget, resource and ordinance and policy work, intervention program, and community education.Organizes and formats data in a way that is tailored to specific audiences.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Knowledge of program development and community change theory and methods; and community health assessment methods, tools, and techniques including setting of goals, objectives, establishing and evaluating outcomes. Knowledge of epidemiology, social determinants of health, disease prevention, health promotion, behavioral change, and group process; data sources and basic epidemiologic, math and statistical terms, data analysis; program planning implementation and evaluation. Knowledge of program subject matter. Knowledge of performance management, quality improvement, and strategic planning processes. Skill in building consensus; effectively building and maintaining trusting relationships with community partners, staff and the public; meeting deadlines; facilitating and leading planning processes with diverse groups; planning, teamwork and organizational change; planning and coordinating community-centered events, meetings, and presentations; application of principles, practices, and theories of public health assessment and planning related to health promotion, policy development, health improvement, and preparedness planning; communicating effectively and collaboratively with individuals and groups from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences; databases and spreadsheet usage; usage of presentation and publisher software; excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication; developing SMART objectives. Strong time management and organizational skills. Proficiency in using a computer including Microsoft Office (including PowerPoint, Excel, and Word) and adapting to other software programs. Abilities: Requires a high level of motivation, initiative, and enthusiasm with a strong independent work ethic. Must have strong time management, organizational and prioritization skills, sound decision-making ability and judgment, and solid data analysis abilities. Ability to concurrently manage multiple complex projects by prioritizing work based on organizational and departmental needs and responsibilities. Ability to defuse stressful situations and respond accordingly. Ability to define problems, collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data, identify trends and establish facts, and draw valid conclusions and recommend actions. Ability to create detailed reports and visual aids with a high degree of accuracy.