ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGER

Linn County is committed to creating a Customer-Center Culture placing our internal & external customers at the center of everything we do! Why do we do this? We get that question a lot. The answer is simple: We want our customers to have a positive experience. Our co-workers are customers too. Exceptional internal customer satisfaction leads to exceptional customer satisfaction for the public!

Why work at Linn County? 

• Competitive wages with annual pay increases & annual cost of living increase (depending on budget) 
• Medical, dental, vision, short & long term disability, and supplemental life insurance 
• Iowa Public Employee's Retirement Pension Plan (IPERS) 
• Wellness program offering credit on insurance premiums to eligible employees 
• Free on-site fitness centers
• 100% County paid basic life insurance 
• 12 paid holidays per year 
• Training & professional development opportunities

Salary: $93,519

About Environmental Public Health Manager:
This is a highly responsible, professional, administrative, and supervisory position coordinating the activities of the Environmental Public Health Division of Linn County Public Health, which includes three separate branches each headed by a Branch Supervisor: Air & Water Quality; Environmental Quality; and Healthy Homes. Responsibilities also include budget and grant writing for ongoing funding support. Responsible for supervising and instructing the work of three Branch Supervisors. Acts as a working supervisor with a combination of duties, with emphasis on providing technical assistance to staff, other agencies, and the public, to resolve difficult or extensive community problems. Assists Health Director in implementation of environmental health policies, laws and required action.

• Ensures a comprehensive air and water quality control program that includes permitting, compliance, enforcement, monitoring, and education and outreach.
• Ensures an effective comprehensive food safety program for restaurants and grocers and environmental sanitation program for pools and hotels, environmental vector control, and general public health nuisances affecting the lives of all Linn County residents.
• Ensures a comprehensive program addressing environmental hazards in the home including childhood lead poisoning prevention asthma management, radon, property maintenance, and indoor air quality.
• Develops policy by planning, developing, and implementing environmental programs; provides education and instruction to Environmental Public Health staff; provides technical expertise to staff as needed; writes grants, establishes fees for service proposals, and directs divisional resources to maximize program efficiency.  Stays abreast of regulatory and program changes. Coordinates program activities and new program development with other agency staff.
• Maintains good public relations and public policy by attending board meetings and other required meetings; serves on community boards and task forces; makes presentations to public groups; maintains division records and prepares reports by submitting reports to the EPA, Iowa DPH, DIA, and DNR; prepares monthly reports, instructs and trains division personnel.
• Applies and demonstrates principles of ethics, health equity, and environmental justice and implements improvements to policies, programs, and services to reduce health inequities. 
• Under the direction of the Health Director, serves as the chief Environmental Health Officer. Enforces state and local laws and regulations; plans and prepares Division’s budget and grant requests and negotiates the 28E Agreements with state and local jurisdictions.
• Performs all other related duties as assigned. 
• Knows the products they personally produce and the customers of each product. Listens to the “Voice of the Customer “and closes gaps between customer expectations and experience whenever possible. 

• Bachelor's degree in public health, community health, public health administration, or environmental management is required. Master's degree is preferred. 
• Five (5) years of experience in public health, environmental health, industry environmental health, air quality services, indoor air quality, lead control service, or radon control services including two (2) years in a managerial position in public health is required.
• Certification as a Registered Environmental Health Specialist, Qualified Environmental Professional, or equivalent is preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of the principles and practices of community engagement, collaboration, and partnership development. 
• Advanced knowledge of federal, state and local laws, ordinances and regulations pertaining to environmental health and quality, and strategies to gain compliance. 
• Advanced knowledge of public health and environmental science, and systems, policies and events impacting public health, environmental quality and resilience. 
• Advanced knowledge of budget preparation, yearly grant requisitions through federal and state agencies, letter of agreement commitments must be planned and scheduled. 
• Knowledge of performance management and quality improvement. 
• Ability to conduct short- and long-term planning, coach and mentor staff. 
• Ability to execute external planning responsibility with numerous agency partners.
• Skills in coordination and cooperation with the other divisions within the department is necessary.  
• Ability to maintain extensive contact with a wide variety of people in a broad range of circumstances which are not confined to an eight (8) hour day.  
• Skills in dealing with irate citizens, and enforcement actions with business and the public is conducted.  
• Ability to perform negotiations with industry and other governmental subdivision.  
• Ability to participate in state professional organizations in leadership status is expected.
• Ability to read rules and regulations dealing with air quality, communications with industry, staff, the community, and training and resource materials.
• Ability to write reports on the work activities, communications to the public, business, and industry, DNR, DIA, Local Boards of Health, EPA, and other contacts, grant writing narratives, and inter-department memos.
• Knowledge and skills in budgeting, calculations of emissions, and permit limits, stack testing evaluations, modeling review, statistical work on pollutant and permit levels.
• Ability to exercise considerable initiative and independent analytical and evaluative judgment.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other government agencies, citizen committees, elected officials, the media, coworkers, and the general public. 
• Ability to appropriately interpret data and implement quality improvement techniques. 

Special Necessary Requirements:
Valid State of Iowa Driver's License required. Must pass a County physical examination which includes a drug test after offer of employment. Subject to credit and criminal history review. Must pass a County physical examination which includes a drug test after offer of employment. Regular work attendance required. Must remain awake and aware of surroundings at all times.Monday - Friday
8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Salary : $93,519