Home Visiting Workforce Retention Specialist

3 weeks ago

Austin, United States Texas Department of Aging & Disability Services Full time
Job Description:
The Early Childhood team within the Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) division is seeking to fill a new role within the team focused on the home visiting workforce. A candidate bringing experience in understanding workforce trends and eager to learn about home visiting or has previous home visiting expertise is ideal. The Home Visiting Workforce and Retention Specialist within the Early Childhood team will focus on the home visiting workforce, specifically home visitors, to support hiring and retention of home visiting staff across the Texas Home Visiting program. The position will assess workforce trends such as retention, turnover, and compensation and provide crossover fiscal, operations, and program consultation to THV grantees. By understanding the unique needs and concerns of the home visiting workforce and the organizations that support them, this position will provide individualized technical assistance as well as inform the development of statewide strategies to promote long-term retention and job satisfaction of home visitors.

The Early Childhood team within the Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) division guides and supports program development and implementation for early childhood programs across the state. This includes the Texas Home Visiting (THV), Texas Nurse Family Partnership (TNFP), and Healthy Outcomes through Prevention and Early Support (HOPES) program. Community-based grantees use various evidence-based home visiting models and parenting supports to promote family stability, child well-being, and early learning in families during the prenatal period and with children through the age of five. The programs also support community coalition building among early childhood grantees. PEI is expanding these programs to more families and communities with new state and federal funding.

In addition, this position will build partnerships with positions in other states serving in a similar capacity and serve on workgroups to help understand broader workforce trends. The position overall performs highly advanced and complex technical, consultative, and professional work designed to support PEI vision and mission. Position interacts internally with program, federal grants management, contracts and fiscal oversight, and research and evaluation. Position interacts with external areas including grantees, community representatives and state government administrators. Position will conduct and facilitate site visits and provide trainings as needed. Works under limited supervision, with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment. The position will serve as the primary subject matter expert on the home visiting workforce. Essential Job Functions:
Coordinates, develops and tracks projects (20%)
•Contributes to the development and planning of projects related to home visiting workforce support and retention.
•Monitors the progress and completion of projects, reports and recommends changes as appropriate.
•Monitors, studies, and analyzes program issues, prepares reports and provides/presents recommendations.
•Analyzes trends across programs and grantees and develops plans to improve efficiency.
•Collects, organizes, analyzes, and prepares material in response to requests for program information.

Provides support and technical assistance (50%)
•Consults and works collaboratively with other Program Specialists.
•Provides consultative services and technical assistance on the planning, implementation, and monitoring of workforce retention and hiring.
•Consults with public and private agencies involved in the program to resolve problems, identify needs, and discuss program implementation.
•Analyzes program data to provide technical assistance to programs.
•Determines program statistics and trends and recommends solutions and policies to address.
•Prepares administrative reports and studies and performs specialized research projects including analysis of grantee program and budget data.

Serves as a Subject Matter Expert in the Home Visiting Workforce (30%)
•Participates in program planning, policy development, implementation and program assessment in accordance with program objectives and goals.
•Consults and works collaboratively with other state agencies and partners in workgroups and initiatives.
•Provides guidance to staff in the development and integration of new methods and procedures.
•May prepare and evaluate budgets related to salaries and workforce.
•Performs related work as assigned.

Knowledge Skills Abilities:
•Skill in effective verbal and written communication.
•Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships and prioritize work effectively
•Knowledge of home visiting programs or early childhood, parent education, other evidence-based or promising practice prevention programs or direct service experience in the above areas is preferred.
•Ability to research information, explain facts, advocate ideas, and negotiate and collaborate with individuals and groups, externally and internally.
•Skill in analyzing organizational problems and developing approaches to address them.
•Ability to plan, assign, and monitor the work of others.

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