Health Educator

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Job Description

Under general direction, the Health Educator performs the following essential job functions:

• Acts as health education specialist to inter and intra-departmental divisions across the full Spectrum of Prevention; this may include: policy development, systems/organizational change, coalition building, mobilizing community, and educating providers, community members and individuals.
• Supervises Assistant Health Educators, interns, or other staff engaged in related work, as needed.
• Supports and provides backbone staffing to DPH and community coalitions focused on culturally relevant health prevention and promotion projects, activities, and programs. This may include planning, organizing, implementing, facilitating, and evaluating programs and meetings; conducting correspondence; compiling, editing, and writing monthly newsletters; developing and distributing meeting agendas and notes; updating websites and social media, etc.
• Plans, organizes, conducts, and evaluates training programs for DPH employees, the SF Health Network, and community partners.
• Develops communications plans utilizing relevant and effective communication strategies; develops, produces, and updates printed and electronic materials.
• Keeps informed of current trends in public health, the work of other agencies, community relations; represents the health department in professional and community affairs.
• Partners with and provides technical assistance to community organizations to support objectives and programs of DPH; attends and addresses meetings; acts as technical advisor to organizations; arranges meetings and obtain speakers; recruits volunteers for DPH programs.
• Analyzes and utilizes data for policy analysis, program planning and evaluation, and other related work.
• Prepares strategic plans, reports to funders, grant proposals, position papers, quality improvement (QI) activities, and other key documents.
• Confers with supervisor and Branch leadership regarding assignments, problems, and progress.
• Attends Branch, Division, and Department level staff meetings.