3.3.2023 Outreach & Health Promotion Program Specialist II Opening at AAHI
AAHI is currently hiring for an Outreach & Health Promotion Program Specialist II and I would appreciate your help in sharing this with your networks. This is a merit position with the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services. Attached is a copy of the job posting and below are the essential functions of the position. Interested individuals should apply using the County's job site: https://www.
The Asian American Health Initiative (AAHI) Outreach Program Specialist II is responsible for the overall coordination, implementation and evaluation of the health promotion, outreach, and community capacity building activities for Montgomery County's diverse Asian American communities.
Essential Functions:
- • Oversee Community Health Workers Program: Recruit, train, and manage day-to-day oversight of Community Health Workers (part-time contract staff); Develop, implement, and evaluate Community Health Worker program to meet the health and wellness needs of Asian American communities.
- • Manage interns and volunteers: Support in the management of AAHI’s internship program. Manage AAHI's volunteer programs and Health Promoters Program; Recruit, interview, and train volunteers and/or interns; Develop meaningful projects related to AAHI's mission and in alignment with internship or volunteer requirements (if applicable); Provide supervision and mentorship.
- • Project management: Exercise direction over junior-level professionals and other employees by assigning work, furnishing advice and instructions, and reviewing completed assignments.
- • Community Engagement: Plan, coordinate, and evaluate health events such as health fairs, health screening events, trainings, and health lectures/workshops for multilingual populations; Create and implement innovative outreach strategies tailored to the needs of diverse Asian Americans; Facilitate and lead projects related to the development of AAHI’s health and social service programs; Utilize data-driven and community-centered tactics and equity framework to address health disparities.
- • Community empowerment: Liaise with community-based and faith-based partners; Develop and sustain new partnerships; Provides technical assistance to diverse Asian American communities related to health and social service programming; Assess community needs, identify gaps in local health and social services, and build programming to address identified needs
- • Contract monitoring: Develop scopes of work and contracts related to outreach and health promotion; Monitor health and social service contracts, ensure compliance of deliverables, and complete related administrative tasks
- • Develop health education materials: Oversee the development of health education materials in multiple Asian languages addressing relevant health disparities; Maintain AAHI's inventor of health education materials and promotional materials; Review and update materials in AAHI's Resource Library
- • Special projects: Facilitates or leads special projects relating to the development of AAHI's health and social programs; Assists with AAHI's overarching/general projects; Participates in MCDHHS initiatives and projects as assigned
