Program Consultant

CDPH is currently hiring for a Program Consultant (Health Program Specialist I) within our Center for Family Health's Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health (MCAH) Division! In this role, you will function as a highly skilled, technical, program consultant responsible for planning, coordinating, and administering the MCAH Division's California Home Visiting Program (CHVP). You will perform duties in the full journey level capacity relating to program quality assurance, technical assistance, Scope of Work development and monitoring, needs assessment, and meeting planning components. You will also serve as a liaison for partner communication and interagency efforts to coordinate the program activities across departments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Works as a program consultant, providing effective consultation/technical assistance to local home visiting programs, monitoring and managing the scope of work deliverables, including the formation of local community advisory boards, local policies and procedures, outreach, systems integration processes, and other administrative activities supporting and facilitating the mission of the CHVP (e.g., reviewing travel and purchase requests)

• Works closely with other members of the CHVP Program Quality and Equity (PQ&E) Section to provide seamless support to the Local Health Jurisdictions (LHJ) and other local and state partners, model developers, and helps ensure evidence-based home visiting model fidelity

• Collaborates with management and administrative staff in LHJs across the state, partnering to implement best practices, identify areas requiring improvement or correction, and effect viable solutions

• Participates in committees and workgroups responsible for coordinating early childhood system activities

• Participates in continuous quality improvement activities, benchmark reporting, and grant projects such as development of the grant application and progress reports

• Reviews and approves LHJs’ budgets and quarterly invoices to ensure proper expenditure of funds

• Assists in the development of Applications/Proposals and other funding applications necessary to support MCAH/CHVP activities including Budget Change Proposals, interagency agreements, bill analyses, and other drills as needed

• Conducts site visits and develops site-visit reports to ensure LHJ compliance with scope of work

• Supports special projects; prepares presentations for professional meetings and conferences; and facilitates conference calls with local agencies and external partners

Minimum Qualifications

Three (3) years of progressively responsible experience in health program administration, at least one (1) year of which shall have been with major responsibility for a significant program, such as is normally found in a complex or departmentalized medical care delivery setting or health institution or organization. Possession of a Doctoral Degree in Public Health, Health Administration, Health Planning, Public Administration, or a closely related health professional field may be substituted for up to one year of the required general experience.

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Possession of a Master's Degree in Public Health, Health Administration, Hospital Administration, Comprehensive Health Planning, Public Administration, or a closely related health professional field (1 year of additional specialized qualifying experience may be substituted for the required master's degree).

Desirable Qualification

• An individual with a solid work ethic and a desire to improve the social and health outcomes for California families

• Excellent time management and organizational skills

• Experience working with state or local government agencies and subcontractors in California

• Experience working in programs that serve children, families and/or vulnerable populations

• Experience working in maternal-infant, child and adolescent health programs

• Experience providing services to culturally diverse families and communities

• Team player who develops and maintains cooperative working relations with internal and external stakeholders

• High level of experience utilizing technology for communicating, producing webinars, and creating documents and spreadsheets

• Solid writing, verbal and remote platform presentation skills (e.g., Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Webex, etc.)

About California Department of Public Health (CDPH)

At CDPH, equity, diversity, and inclusion are at the core of our mission to advance the health and well-being of California’s diverse people and communities. We are genuinely and strongly committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness where we can grow and learn together with a diverse team of employees. In recruiting for team members, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring to us and the work we do. The Human Resources Division (HRD) partners with CDPH’s programs and management to provide guidance and consultative services on HR matters that are necessary for the Department to carry out its mission to deliver quality public health services.

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