Program Coordinator 2

WIC Program CoordinatorThis individual position is exempt from the hiring freeze. Qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.Welcome to the Department of Health We'd be delighted to have you join our team. If you envision yourself in this role and are ready to start an exciting career with us, apply today This position is open to Alaskan residents only. Please check out the residency definition to determine if you qualify.What You Will Be Doing: As the WIC Program Coordinator for the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program at the Fairbanks Public Health Center, you will play a vital role in ensuring families in your community have access to essential nutrition services. Under the guidance of the WIC Program Manager, you will:Lead the delivery of WIC services at the Fairbanks Public Health Center, ensuring high-quality, client-centered care.Provide direct support to participants, including nutrition assessments, education, breastfeeding support, referrals, and supplemental food assistance.Coordinate daily operations within the center to ensure smooth, efficient service delivery.Ensure compliance with all state and federal WIC guidelines and policies.Support outreach efforts to connect families and help them thrive through improved nutrition, care, and the services they need.Mission and Values/Culture: The Division of Public Health is the state's lead public health agency focused on the services that protect the public's health and advance the health status of all Alaskans and communities by preventing illness and injury.WIC is part of a public health program that provides nutrition and breastfeeding education, counseling, support, referrals to needed services, and nutritious food to eligible women, infants, and children up to age five.We embrace the values of excellence, innovation, continuous improvement, integrity, and inclusiveness.In your role, you will positively impact the food security of families across Alaska.Benefits of Joining Our Team: We are committed to employee health and well-being, offering opportunities for professional growth and development, and self-care in a supportive, collegial work environment with job stability and security. Additional benefits include: hybrid telework (if desired), 12 paid holidays, paid leave, retirement options, and insurance (health, vision, and dental).The Working Environment You Can Expect: This position is located in the Fairbanks Public Health Center in Fairbanks, AK. We are a close-knit, fun team dedicated to advancing health access and equity, with a passion for improving the lives of families, women, infants, children, and adolescents. The Division of Public Health has a long history of collaboration with health care providers, non-profits, educators, and families to improve maternal, newborn, and early childhood health outcomes.Who We Are Looking For: Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:Public Health: Applies knowledge of the concepts, principles, theories, methods, and tools associated with protecting and improving the health of people and their communities, including, promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and/or injury prevention, and/or detecting, preventing, and responding to infectious diseases.Customer Service: Anticipates and meets the needs of both internal and external customers. Delivers high-quality products and services is committed to continuous improvement.Planning and Evaluation: Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinates with other organizations or parts of the organization to accomplish goals; monitors progress and evaluates outcomes.Competency-based minimum qualifications instructions: This job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications. Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.Competencies include:Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: Uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one's knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.Compliance: Knowledge of procedures for assessing, evaluating, and monitoring programs or projects for compliance with Federal laws, regulations, and guidance.Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.Planning and Evaluating: Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinates with other organizations or parts of the organization to accomplish goals; monitors progress and evaluates outcomes.Organizational Awareness: Knows the organization's mission and functions, and how its social, political, and technological systems work and operates effectively within them; this includes the programs, policies, procedures, rules, and regulations of the organization.Equivalent to those typically gained by:Training from an accredited college or university in any field and/or progressively responsible professional experience developing, planning, coordinating, and implementing a program, project, business, organization, or major components of a program, including having administrative authority over the program/project funding, staff, and/or overall operations.Special note: "Competencies" means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation. "Typically gained by" means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job. "Training" and "education" are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs. "Professional experience" means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment.Progressively responsible means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.At the time of the interview, please provide the following:Three (3) professional references whom we may contact by phone, one (1) of whom must be your current or most recent supervisor, if not already provided in the application.For your application to be evaluated, you must answer the Supplemental Questions. The State of Alaska uses four proficiency levels to measure and describe an applicant's level of competence in applying certain behaviors, knowledge, skills, and abilities to accomplish a specific task. The four proficiency levels are Mastery, Fluency, Literacy, and Discovery. You must rate your proficiency level for each competency listed in the supplemental questions.This Position Description is currently being reviewed by the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations, Classification Section. Depending on the outcome of the allocation, this recruitment pool may or may not be utilized to fill this vacancy.To verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts). Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not, transcripts will be required before employment.When using work experience not documented in your application, please provide the employer's name, job title, employment dates, and whether you worked full-time or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and if minimum qualifications are met. Work experience needed to meet the minimum qualifications must be documented in the application. If the application does not support minimum qualifications, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment.This recruitment may be used for more than one (1) vacancy. The applicant pool acquired during this recruitment may be used for future vacancies for up to ninety (90) days after this recruitment closes. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply