The American Heart Association (AHA) has a part-time, grant-supported position available with our Puget Sound Division’s Community Impact Team. This is a great opportunity to gain valuable professional experience and make a lifesaving difference.
Maintaining a healthy blood pressure is key to heart health and this grant-supported initiative expands our ability to empower community members to learn about, monitor and manage blood pressure through a combination of evidence-based resources.
Schedule: 15 hours per week up through March 2020. Flexibility is needed with occasional mornings, evenings and weekends.
Areas of Responsibility:
Primary responsibilities in supporting the Community Impact team with the management and oversight of this grant funded project include:
- Strategic Planning & Development
- Support Senior Director and Director with strategic planning for achieving grant goals and objectives.
- Collaboratively develop strategic plan for clinic integration of hypertension programs with internal and external stakeholders
- Development of project work plans and goal setting.
- Prepare and create health promotional materials needed for community events, professional health training, patient health education and workshops
- Collaboratively develop an outreach and recruitment plan with internal and external colleagues, partners and stakeholders.
- Initiate opportunities for outreach and promotion of project via social media avenues with Sr. Director & Communications team.
- Project Implementation:
- Lead project implementation efforts with the Community Impact Team, strategic partners, and volunteers.
- Successfully execute clinic hypertension workshops, and Check.Change.Control Blood Pressure programming by March 2020.
- Provide ongoing support and training to health providers, volunteers and community members.
- Partnership Cultivation & Collective impact:
- Cultivate and engage volunteers and community members in supporting the project .
- Coordinate cultivation of collective impact opportunities with local partners within the community examples: hospital, nonprofits, business, community centers, churches, schools
- Build opportunities to leverage outreach, blood pressure awareness, and improve access with partners.
- Evaluation & Reporting:
- Prepare midyear and end of year reporting for internal and external stakeholders.
- Reporting should highlight the qualitative and quantitative results of the project.
- Overall Team Support
- Assist in logistics and execution of training , seminars, and events
- Assist in Community Health Fair and Speaker requests, if needed
- Assist in making event materials/files as it relates to community impact programs
- Identify and recruit volunteers for community engagement opportunities
Educational Background:
Related education and experience in public health, community health, and/or population health with direct knowledge of healthcare interventions
Skills/Experience:
- Demonstrated skills in written and oral communications, including large and small group presentations, group facilitation and training and writing clear, concise narrative reports and evaluations
- Ability to travel across the communities served
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Apr 21 2019
Active Until:
May 21 2019
Hiring Organization:
American Heart Association | American Stroke Association
industry:
Nonprofit