THIS IS A SPECIAL DUTY ANNOUNCEMENT.
ONLY KING COUNTY EMPLOYEES ARE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY
Duration: 7 months (November 2024 – June 2025)
For Special Duty Assignment interest, you must be a Career Service, Career Service Exempt or other regular (non-temporary) employee in King County who has completed their initial County probation. You must have supervisor approval prior to taking a Special Duty Assignment.If you are excited to make a difference in the lives of others and join a team that works towards a meaningful purpose, apply to work in the Environmental Health Division. We are seeking a skilled, enthusiastic, and dedicated Project Coordinator (Educator Consultant III) who can listen, build trust, skillfully communicate, and engage authentically with internal and external partners.
The successful candidate will need to be an independent self-starter who is skilled at collaboration to develop and implement strategies that:
- Promote environmental justice
- Prevent lead and toxic exposures in children and families
The work requires a strong ability to build partnerships and to support diverse in-language and in-culture services and approaches, focusing on communities who are inequitably impacted by exposures to lead and other toxics.
ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION:
Through the work of over 160 dedicated employees, the Environmental Health Services Division identifies and sustains environmental conditions that promote health equity and healthy people and communities in Seattle and King County. Our vision is healthy, safe, and vibrant communities that are free of health inequities based on race, gender, or economic status. The Division’s core values include racial equity and social justice, integrity, community service, collaboration, a supportive work culture, and learning from each other and the communities we serve. To learn more, please visit https://www.kingcounty.gov/ehs.
ABOUT THE LEAD AND TOXICS PROGRAM:
The Lead and Toxics Program team includes five educator consultants and project/program managers who implement $1.5 million in grant-funded work each year including:
The selected candidate will implement health education and community engagement activities across BSK Prenatal-5 programs, including managing a portfolio of community contracts. Best Starts for Kids (BSK) is King County's initiative to improve the health and well-being of our residents by investing in promotion, prevention and early intervention programs and services for children, youth, families and communities.
COMMITMENT TO EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE:
As the only jurisdiction in the world named after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the most influential civil rights leaders in our nation's history, King County is a vibrant international community. King County has adopted a racial equity agenda aimed at advancing regional change and is developing the systems and standards necessary to eliminate racial health inequities. King County is committed to equity and diversity in the workplace.
The selected candidate must demonstrate a commitment to eliminating racial inequities and the ability to integrate King County's Equity and Racial Social Justice principles into the daily functions of this position. To learn more, please visit http://www.kingcounty.gov/equity.
Program Planning and Management:- Develop and implement community education, outreach, and public involvement strategies that promote healthy environments and reduce exposure to lead and other toxics.
- Plan and produce effective education and engagement materials
- Work with partners (internal and external) who provide services to reduce lead and toxics exposures where families live, learn and play.
Contract Management, Planning and Support:- Manage contracts, assuring that partners meet contract deliverables and adhere to federal fiscal requirements.
- Provide support and technical assistance to community-based organizations and coalitions.
- Develop and implement training programs for community/internal partners related to childhood lead poisoning prevention, testing, intervention, and mitigation.
Partnership Development:- Develop relationships and create equitable partnerships with other public, private, and non-profit agencies and organizations.
- Facilitate processes that center community voices and assure that equity considerations are integral to the development and implementation of all program strategies.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Knowledge of equity and social justice principles and practices and an understanding of the effects of place, race and policy and systems-based inequities on marginalized communities and populations.
- Excellent communication skills (oral, written, in-person, and remote): concise, responsive, clear, accurate communication for diverse audiences (including community members, elected officials, representatives of agencies/organizations, peers, and staff), virtually and in-person.
- Demonstrated skill with project management tools (online and in-person) to manage contracts, meet fiscal monitoring requirements, and organize and prioritize work quickly in response to changing needs.
- Work efficiently under deadlines.
- Demonstrated skill with use of Microsoft Office products (such as Excel, Word, Outlook, SharePoint, Teams) and Zoom or similar video conferencing software.
- Demonstrated experience building trusting relationships with culturally specific and community-based groups, volunteer boards, service providers, and co-workers.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating community-led processes to identify priorities and address public health issues.
- Regular and reliable attendance, effective communication skills, and development of effective working relationships are requirements of all Public Health positions.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS/TRANSFERABLE SKILLS:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in social work, science, public health, public administration or a combination of work experience and education.
*Transferable skills: Your transferable skills are any skills you have gained through education, work experience (including the military) or life experience that are relevant for this position.
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