COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL COORDINATOR 2 - 03042025-65922

Job Information

LOCATION OF (1) POSITION(S) TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, LOCAL HEALTH DIVISION, DAVIDSON COUNTY

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Qualifications

Overview

Responsibilities

Training and Teaching Others:

1. Conducting agency-specific and specialized training for agency employees to comply with departmental, state and federal laws, rules, regulations, guidelines, processes and procedures, facilitating change and improvement initiatives.
2. Training members of the health council and teaching council members how to diagnose community problems, including strategic planning processes and assessment.
3. Training members of the health council and teaching council members how to diagnose community problems, including strategic planning processes and assessment.
4. Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes and teaching or instructing others.

Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work:

1. Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize organize and accomplish your work.
2. Delegating tasks to assigned subordinates based on the competencies they possess to ensure sufficient space to engage in supervisory work and ensure work is completed efficiently.
3. Incorporating last minute and unscheduled tasks into current workload to ensure timely and accurate completion of work.
4. Organizing and prioritizing personal workload and the workloads of assigned subordinates using calendars, lists and other facilitators to ensure timely and accurate completion of work.

Making Decisions and Solving Problems:

1. Selecting job candidates and community stakeholders who best fit available positions based on the results of selection assessment and testing.
2. Monitoring and approving travel, time and attendance, training and other related requests submitted by subordinates to ensure compliance with department, state and federal laws, rules, regulations, guidelines, processes and procedures.
3. Assisting in analyzing healthrelated information and evaluating results to choose the best solutions to address community problems.

Analyzing Data or information:

1. Analyzing data collected or community assessment information to identify the underlying principles, reasons or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
2. Analyzing information such as demographics, incidents of disease, TennCare population and behavioral risk statistics to present to community stakeholders to identify community priorities.

Selling or Influencing Others:

1. Motivating the community to improve identified health outcomes through educational outreach events.
2. Influencing staff or community partners using identified individual motivational factors to improve job performance or productivity.

Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People:

1. Judging how well a subordinate performs on tasks, which may include presenting information at conferences or agencies or to private industries/organizations; explaining community assessment data and answering questions about the community assessment process.
2. Assessing abilities of subordinates and community stakeholders to work on committees, councils and projects.

Developing Objectives and Strategies:

1. Developing and establishing objectives and specifying strategies and actions to enhance investment and participation in special events and projects.
2. Facilitating community outreach discussion to identify and prioritized community problems; identifying obtainable resources.

Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships:

1. Maintaining professional working relationships with peers, assigned subordinates and management to ensure smooth and effective team operations.
2. Analyzing information such as demographics, incidents of disease, TennCare population and behavioral risk statistics to present to community stakeholders to identify community priorities.

Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others:

1. Coordinating workload with internal and external partners as required to facilitate timely and accurate task completion.
2. Identifying key community stakeholders who will serve on a council/coalition and ensuring that members diagnose community problems and other areas of concern.

Developing and Building Teams:

1. Modeling effective performance for co-workers, assigned subordinates and community stakeholders to encourage success in others and enhance trust.
2. Identifying developmental opportunities appropriate for assigned subordinates to improve team development.

Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates:

1. Providing regular updates to management and other internal partners on the status of projects and other assigned work.
2. Maintaining an open dialogue with internal and external partners to ensure effective and efficient communication.

Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others:

1. Resolving simple conflicts without supervisory input to ensure timely and efficient performance and maintain positive working relationships.
2. Maintaining a respectful and productive work environment within the assigned work unit to minimize disputes and facilitate performance.

Processing Information:

1. Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating or verifying information or data from community outreach activities.

Getting Information:

1. Collecting county/state/national health-related data to include demographics, incidents of disease, TennCare population and behavioral risk statistics.

Thinking Creatively:

1. Developing, designing and creating innovative strategies, applications, ideas and relationships (e.g., community stakeholders) or products (e.g., educational or outreach).

Staffing Organization Units:

1. Recruiting, interviewing, selecting and hiring employees in the organization.

Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others:

1. Translating, interpreting and explain community health data and program guidelines to staff and community stakeholders

Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events:

1. Identifying work and community priorities to ensure the most important work is completed first based on work experience, supervisor guidance and departmental, state, and federal laws, rules, regulations and guidelines.

Coaching and Developing Others:

1. Identifying the developmental needs of others, coaching and mentoring to improve their knowledge or skills.

Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates:

1. Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.

Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge:

1. Keeping up-to-date technically (i.e., population and community health data) and applying relevant knowledge to your job for community outreach.

Monitoring and Controlling Resources:

1. Allocating resources to projects conducted for the department as required ensuring sufficient funding for key initiatives.

Scheduling Work and Activities:

1. Scheduling events, programs and activities for community outreach.

Documenting/Recording Information:

1. Entering, transcribing, recording, storing or maintaining information in written or electronic form.

Performing Administrative Activities:

1. Performing day-to-day administrative tasks including maintaining information files and processing paperwork.

Interacting With Computers:

1. Using office productivity software including but not limited to work processing programs, spreadsheet programs, presentation software, web-based email programs and search engines.

Communicating with Persons Outside Organization:

1. Communicating with people outside the organization, as a representative of the organization to the community.

Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment:

1. Using state or personal vehicle for authorized travel.

Performing General Physical Activities:

1. Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking and stooping.

Controlling Machines and Processes:

1. Operating a variety of office equipment.

Competencies (KSA's)

1. Hiring and Staffing
2. Informing
3. Decision Quality
4. Managerial Courage
5. Intellectual Horsepower
6. Timely Decision Making
7. Approachability
8. Ethics and Values
9. Integrity and Trust
10. Functional/Technical Competency
11. Planning
12. Conflict Management

Knowledge:

1. Administration and Management
2. Clerical
3. Education and Training
4. Communication and Media

Skills:

1. Persuasion
2. Reading Comprehension
3. Active Listening
4. Speaking
5. Writing
6. Active Learning
7. Management of Personnel Resources
8. Time Management
9. Coordination
10. Judgment and Decision Making
11. Instructing
12. Service Orientation
13. Learning Strategies
14. Monitoring
15. Critical Thinking
16. Negotiation
17. Category Flexibility
18. Social Perceptiveness
19. Complex Problem Solving
20. Systems Evaluation
21. Management of Material Resources
22. System Analysis

Abilities:

1. Oral Expression
2. Oral Comprehension
3. Written Comprehension
4. Speech Clarity
5. Written Expression
6. Speech Recognition
7. Deductive Reasoning
8. Information Ordering
9. Inductive Reasoning
10. Static Strength
11. Stamina

Tools & Equipment

1. Computer
2. Printer
3. Copier
4. Scanner
5. Telephone
6. Fax
7. Binding Machine
8. Laminator

TN Driver Standards

State of Tennessee positions that may involve driving responsibilities require candidates to meet the following minimum driver qualifications:

• A valid driver's license
• For the past five years, the candidate's driver record must not have record of the following violations: driving under the influence (DUI), reckless driving, license suspension for moving violations, more than 4 moving violations.

Please include your Driver's License Information under the Licenses and Certifications section of your application.

**Agencies may allow an exception based on other factors.