Department Information
This position is only open to Colorado Residents.
This is a hybrid position.
Be BOLD and make a real difference . . .
We are committed to increasing the diversity of our staff and providing culturally responsive programs and services. Therefore, we encourage responses from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.
If your goal is to build a career that makes a difference, consider joining the dedicated people of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Our tobacco-free campus offers free parking and is conveniently located near RTD bus lines, Glendale City Set, and the Cherry Creek bike path. In addition to a great location and rewarding, meaningful work, we offer:
- Employee wellness programs and facilities
- Extensive internal professional development opportunities on a wide variety of subjects
- Bike to work programs, including access to storage lockers and bike racks
- Distinctive career advancement opportunities throughout the State system
- Strong, yet flexible retirement benefits including a choice of the PERA Defined Benefit Plan or the PERA Defined Contribution Plan, plus optional 401K and 457 plans
- Medical and dental health plans
- Paid life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- 11 paid holidays per year plus generous personal time off
- Mentoring program with opportunities for mentors and mentees
- Tuition assistance for college-level courses including Masters degree programs
- Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules
- A variety of employee resource groups
Some positions may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. For more information, go to: Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
Description of Job
About The Work Unit:
The Office of Public Health Practice, Planning and Local Partnerships promotes state and local governmental public health agencies functioning as a seamless system, working in partnership to improve health outcomes. The Office is guided by the 2008 Public Health Act and coordinates with department leadership to focus on the functions of:
- Partnerships: Assuring strategic partnerships between the state and local public health agencies to meet mutual goals;
- Assessment and Planning: Developing and implementing assessment and planning systems in accordance with best practices and the Act, toward systems improvements and better health outcomes;
- Practice: Facilitating a trained public health workforce to cover all counties, promoting practice competencies, training and innovation.
Key Activities for the Office include:
- Develop, lead and facilitate successful stakeholder and communication networks and systems among CDPHE and LPHA leadership, professional public health organizations, and boards of county commissioners/local boards of health to promote collaborative relationships in pursuit of mutual goals.
- Elevate issues of concern among CDPHE partners to agency leadership for coordination and direction.
Practice:
- Support collaborative efforts to continue to build and modernize Colorado’s public health system, using nationally recognized performance standards and innovations in public health practice.
- Evaluate, monitor and support the capacity of local public health agencies to promote the provision of the core public health services.
- Facilitate education and training for members of the public health workforce on public health competencies (e.g., assessment, planning, strategy development and evaluation) and provide support for new local public health directors.
- Advise county commissioners or boards of health as requested as they seek to fill vacant public health director positions.
- Research, disseminate and advocate for model strategies that improve the public health system and health outcomes.
- Use credible evidence through literature reviews, standards and other model programming to advise the statewide public health improvement plan and the CDPHE internal strategic plan on best practices to move the needle.
Planning:
- In accordance with the Public Health Act, work with department leadership and local public health agencies to develop a state public health assessment and public health improvement plan every 5 years.
- Develop standardized community health assessment and planning processes, and increase local capacity to perform these activities toward improved health outcomes.
- Promote alignment between LPHAs and the statewide plan in accordance with the Act, and facilitate processes to implement strategies in the plan.
- Improve the availability and use of data, technology and public health informatics on both a state and local level.
What You Will Be Doing:
This position exists to provide vision, leadership and direction to The Office of Public Health Practice, Planning and Local Partnerships. The position directs the office to lead statewide public and environmental health systems improvement efforts, ensuring strong connections between CDPHE and LPHAs, Tribal health authorities, the Colorado School of Public Health and other partnering public health organizations. The primary functions of this position include:
- Assuring a strong partnership function with effective communication systems and staff in a liaison role to facilitate successful relationships between CDPHE and 54 local public health agencies and 2 Tribal health authorities.
- Providing oversight and direction for Colorado’s assessment and planning system, assuring the development and implementation of Colorado's Statewide Public Health Improvement Plan in accordance with the 2009 Act and facilitating technical assistance to LPHA’s in the areas of assessment and planning.
- Providing vision for collaborative efforts to continue to build and modernize Colorado’s public health system, by using nationally recognized performance standards and innovations in public health practice.
- Executing CDPHE’s executive leadership’s vision and direction for Colorado's state and local public health partnerships.
This role was developed for a visionary leader with a broad understanding of public health innovation models, public health practice and the core functions of assessment and planning. The position has oversight of a team and management responsibilities to assure office activities are effective. The position serves as a member of the department’s leadership team and is an advisor to the department’s Executive Director and Chief Medical Officer.
The position assures that the ED and CMO are regularly updated on office activities; are able to provide strategic direction when appropriate; and are engaged early on issues with local public health agencies that could negatively impact the agency.
Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights
An applicant may meet the minimum qualifications for this job in one of two ways: They may qualify through their work experience alone or through a combination of education and work experience.
Option 1: Experience
Ten (10) years of full time professional experience in public health program management including strategic planning and outreach, grant writing, policy development, and supervision and performance management of professional staff, two of which must have included experience with public or business administration, establishing goals and objectives, as well as developing and managing a budget to achieve program goals and objectives.
Option 2: Combination of Education and Experience
A combination of education from an accredited institution in Business Administration, Public Administration, Management, or Public Health AND full time professional experience in public health program management including strategic planning and outreach, grant writing, policy development, and supervision and performance management of professional staff, two of which must have included experience with public or business administration, establishing goals and objectives, as well as developing and managing a budget to achieve program goals and objectives equal to ten (10) years.
This experience must be substantiated within the Work Experience section of your application. "See Resume" will not be accepted. In addition, part-time work will be prorated.
Conditions of Employment:
- A pre-employment criminal background check will be conducted as part of the selection process. Felony convictions or conviction of crimes of moral turpitude or convictions of misdemeanors related to job duties may disqualify you from being considered for this position. Should your background check reveal any charges and convictions, it is your responsibility to provide the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Human Resources office with an official disposition of any charges.
- Critical Status: Must be available in the event of an emergency, (e.g., bio-terrorist attack, chemical attack, disease outbreak or all hazards) and be required to report to work immediately at the regular or alternate location. During this time, travel restrictions may be in place.
- Critical Status: Must be available in the event of the activation of the Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) and be required to report to work immediately at the regular or alternate location. During this time, travel restrictions may be in place.
- Must be willing and able to independently travel throughout the state 5 days per month including occasional overnight stays.
Preferred Qualifications and Essential Competencies:
- Proven knowledge of health assessments and improvement planning processes
- Experience providing public health technical assistance to local public health agencies
- Experience working with outside organizations to set goals, resolve conflicts, and achieve deliverables
- Proven knowledge of local public health agencies and experience working with local public health agencies (LPHA’s)
- Experience with or knowledge of meaningful use criteria, and understanding of LPHA’s
- Data use and technical management experience
- Experience managing budgets and contracts, and working with grant administration
- Experience working with boards or commissions
- Supervisory Experience
Supplemental Information
A Complete Application Must Include:
- A completed state of Colorado application
- A COVER LETTER
- A RESUME
- If you are a veteran, a copy of your DD214 attached to your colorado.gov/jobs application.
The Selection Process
- All applications that are received by the closing of this announcement will be reviewed against the Minimum Qualifications in this announcement. Candidates who meet the minimum qualifications
