What are the responsibilities and job description for the Health Outreach/Grant Writer position at New Solutions?
Health Outreach/Grant Writer
Position Overview:
- Communication skills are crucial for success of the position.
- Successfully be able to write health grants, the justification for the grants and move the health grants through the proper channels.
- Important Outreach for the clinic.
- Research in public health field.
- The ability to be able to provide education on different health issues.
- Manages the development, implementation, and evaluation of preventive Occupational Health services.
- These activities include outreach, education, research, and other projects that often require collaboration within the center and with external individuals and organizations.
Position Responsibilities:
- Willingness to make connections with leaders in the community, i.e. union leaders, attorneys etc.
- Oversee ongoing development of outreach and education program.
- Participate in the design and conduction of outreach and education activities.
- Develop a Needs Assessment to focus activities.
- Develop methods to increase program awareness generally and among target groups.
- Coordinate and provide oversight activities of agencies with whom the Occupational Health Clinical Center contracts for outreach services.
- Locating and organizing data necessary to support the various center's projects.
- Develop educational materials for distribution.
- Analyzing data from research and other projects and writing up the results for publications and other reports.
- Maintain Occupational Health Clinical Center resource library.
- Development of grant proposals to fund specific Occupational Health Clinical Center projects
- Respond to requests for technical assistance from staff, patients, medical community, unions, and others.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Must have a Master's Degree in Public Health with additional graduate-level training focused on social and behavioral dimensions of occupational health.
- Public health experience.
- Must have a minimum of 3-5 years' experience in academic and occupational health settings.
- Doctoral degree in Public Health, or related social science, preferred.
- Must have high levels of initiative and commitment to the field of occupational health.
- Must have a passion for public health, and a willingness to undertake a range of duties, from analyzing data to engaging with workers in the community.
- Must have project management skills.
- Must possess the ability to provide support for scholarly activities in the field of occupational health including proficiency in medical, public health, and social science literatures.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $70,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Relocation assistance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
- Wellness program
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person
Salary : $70,000 - $80,000
