Public Health Planner

**Position Summary and Job Duties**:
**Position Summary**:The Public Health Planner ensures that department wide plans are developed, implemented, and evaluated. The Public Health Planner coordinates meetings of internal work groups involved in developing the department's Performance Management System, Quality Improvement Plan, Workforce Development Plan, and Partner Relationship Management System, tracks and reports progress on reaching goals, and ensures that the goals of the plans are aligned with the department's Strategic Plan.

**COVID-19 Response and Recovery Role**:The Public Health Planner tracks the development and implementation of plans to respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, works with the COVID Core Team to set performance indicators for the response and recovery, and monitors performance against established metrics to identify where quality improvement tools should be applied. Helps assure the development of a workforce to respond to future public health emergencies.

**35%- Build and maintain a strong organizational infrastructure for public health.**
- Leads and Facilitates the development and implementation of the department's Performance Management System, Quality Improvement Plan, Workforce Development Plan, and Partner Relationship Management System.
- Monitors the implementation of department-wide plans; tracks progress against established benchmarks; leads the evaluation process to determine outcomes of the identified strategies.
- Ensures that goals and objectives for department-wide plans align with the department's strategic plan.
- Approaches work from an equity lens and ensures that department plans incorporate a focus on reducing inequities and disparities in health outcomes.
- Develops plans and processes to track the department's progress towards meeting public health department accreditation standards and measures.
- Provides grant writing support to other department staff.
- Ensures that systems exist to track the implementation of grant related activities.

**35%- Improve and innovate through evaluation, research and quality improvement.**
- Provides technical assistance to others within the department on project management, performance management, and quality improvement.
- Develops surveys and questionnaires, implements project management and quality improvement tools, analyzes results for evaluation purposes and continuous quality improvement efforts.
- Provides updates on the status of reaching goals and objectives to department staff and the Board of Health.
- Participates in the process to develop the Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan; provides project management assistance as needed.
- Maintains documentation to demonstrate compliance for the health department's Chapter 140 review.

**25%- Build a diverse and skilled workforce.**
- Maintains knowledge of current trends in public health.
- Applies adult development theories and adult learner concepts in designing interventions to further develop the public health workforce.
- Develops training opportunities for all department staff related to performance management and quality improvement.

**5%- Other duties as assigned.**
- Performs public health emergency response duties as assigned and consistent with job classification and training provided, in response to threats to the public's health.
- Participates in department and community-wide emergency response training and drills consistent with job classification in support of public health emergency and disaster preparedness.
- Supports the development of a future public health workforce by precepting/mentoring students and assisting with the onboarding of new staff members as appropriate.
- Engages in developmental opportunities related to their role and responsibilities, including health equity and social justice; seeks opportunities to gather and reflect on diverse perspectives; works to address personal implicit biases; and seeks developmental opportunities to work within complex systems.
- Upholds ethical standards for public health practice.
- Performs other duties as assigned, consistent with job classification.
- Maintains confidentiality of protected health information (PHI) of individuals, identifiable data elements and small data sets, including but not limited to only accessing information related to assigned work, utilizing locked filing cabinets, electronic password protection, and encryption when creating, handling and storing documents that contain PHI.
- Participates in the development and implementation of agency and program strategic planning, performance management, and quality improvement.

**Success Factors (KSA's)**:
**Knowledge**:

- Adult development theories and strategies to support adult learners.
- Ten Essential Public Health Services Framework.
- Social Determinants of Health.
- Public Health Core Competencies.

**Skills**:

- Meeting facilitation.
- Project management.
- Communication.
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