DEPT OF HEALTH SERVICES

Address:

 150 N 18th Ave.

Phoenix, AZ 85007

Salary: $56,453 

Grade: 19

This position serves as a Program Coordinator in the Office of Infectious Disease Control. This position is responsible for managing grant related activities and for coordinating and facilitating a variety of stakeholders meetings. This position is critical for organizing the Annual AZ Infectious Disease Training and Exercise (AZID). This position will assist with developing educational materials/trainings, outreach events and conduct disease interviews and outbreak response. This position will also assist with Bureau-wide administrative activities, as needed.

This position works under the direction of the Epidemiology Program Manager and Office/Bureau Chiefs, providing assistance with administrative tasks, grant writing, preparing quarterly reports, managing contracts and conducting risk assessments and site visits. This position may periodically travel for site visits, tabling events, conferences, and trainings. This position may be required to participate in after-hours activities including, but not limited to, partner meetings, investigation, outbreak and emergency response, as needed. This position may participate in writing other funding proposals.

This position may provide data entry and data quality support, as needed. Employee will be expected to make independent decisions and judgments based on their professional education, programmatic experience and training. This position is responsible for maintaining confidential information and adhering to strict data security and confidentiality protocols. This position shall be expected to support a diverse, multi-cultural workforce that reflects the community, promotes equal opportunity at all levels of ADHS, and creates an inclusive work environment that enables all individuals to perform to their fullest potential free from discrimination.

Managing grant and contract activities; providing assistance in grant writing, preparing quarterly reports, conducting risk assessments; providing subject matter expertise and guidance on grants and contracts to partners and team, as needed; participating in any relevant grant and contract activities.

Coordinating and facilitating the Annual AZ Infectious Disease Training and Exercise, and additional stakeholder meetings.

Providing administrative support for the Bureau, such as managing voicemail, inventory, mail scanning and routing.

Developing and refining educational/training materials; Conducting disease interviews and outbreak response; Providing data entry and data quality support.

Participating in tabling events, site visits, training, and conferences.

Participating in after-hours activities, including partner meetings, investigation, outbreak and emergency response as needed.

Other duties as assigned as related to the position (typically 5% - 10%)

Knowledge of:
-Grant and contract management
-Comprehensive knowledge of contemporary principles and practices of disease investigation and control, basic disease transmission, and general communicable diseases
-Data entry
-Partnership building
-Training techniques
-Effective verbal and written communication
-Motivational interviewing and public health contract elicitation strategies
-Performance Management (PM), and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and Lean methodologies.

Skill in:
-Facilitating and coordinating meetings and conferences
-Communicable disease investigation
-Strategies for contact elicitation, case investigations and partner notification
-Conducting field visits
-Interpersonal relationships and cultural humility
-Verbal and written communication

Ability to:
-Maintain confidentiality
-Use a variety of strategies to locate partners
-Adapt partner services skills to a variety of settings (i.e. rural vs. urban)
-Apply disease knowledge to case investigation strategies
-Adopt data-informed strategies for disease intervention
-Appropriately document work using surveillance systems
-Communicate complex information to a variety of audiences
-Collaborate with others inside and outside the agency to identify the problem and form recommendations
-Support a diverse multi-cultural workforce that reflects the community, promotes equal opportunity at all levels of public employment, and creates an inclusive work environment that enables all individuals to perform to their fullest potential free from discrimination

Bachelors degree and minimum of 1 year experience as a Program Coordinator; associates degree and 3 years experience as an Program Coordinator also acceptable; or 5 years on the job experience as a Program Coordinator. Preference will be given to candidate with Public Health Experience.

Driver's License.

If this position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job to conduct State business, then the following requirements apply: Driver’s License Requirements.

All newly hired State employees are subject to and must successfully complete the Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-Verify).

The State of Arizona provides an excellent comprehensive benefits package including:
− Affordable medical and dental insurance plans
− Paid vacation and sick time
− Paid Parental Leave-Up to 12 weeks per year paid leave for newborn or newly-placed foster/adopted child (pilot program).
− 10 paid holidays per year
− Wellness program and plans
− Life insurance
− Short/long-term disability insurance
− Defined retirement plan
− Award winning Infant at Work program
− Credit union membership
− Transit subsidy
− ADHS Student Assistance Pilot Program

By providing the option of a full-time or part-time remote work schedule, employees enjoy improved work/life balance, report higher job satisfaction, and are more productive. Remote work is a management option and not an employee entitlement or right. An agency may terminate a remote work agreement at its discretion.

Learn more about the Paid Parental Leave pilot program here. For a complete list of benefits provided by The State of Arizona, please visit our benefits page

To help you build a financially secure future, the State makes monthly contributions to finance your retirement benefit. The State will contribute to the ASRS in an amount equal to your contribution. In other words, you and the State will each pay 50% of the total cost of the benefit. New State employees have a 27-week wait period for contributions to begin.

The State of Arizona is an Equal Opportunity/Reasonable Accommodation Employer. Persons with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation such as a sign language interpreter or an alternative format by calling (602) 542-1085. Requests should be made as early as possible to allow sufficient time to arrange the accommodation. DHS is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All newly hired employees will be subject to E-Verify Employment Eligibility Verification.