Home Visiting Implementation Specialist

The Department of Public Health (DPH) is hiring a full-time Home Visiting Implementation Specialist for the Massachusetts Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Initiative (MA MIECHV). MA MIECHV is seeking a dynamic, self-motivated, and strategic individual to support the implementation of home visiting programs. The goals of MA MIECHV are to: 1) strengthen and improve the programs and activities carried out under Title V of the Social Security Act; 2) improve coordination of services within priority communities; and 3) identify and provide comprehensive services to improve outcomes for eligible families living in priority communities. Primary responsibilities include program management, implementation support, subrecipient monitoring, reporting, quality improvement, fiscal sustainability, and strategic collaborations within and outside of DPH. The Home Visiting Implementation Specialist will participate in and /or coordinate special projects to support program planning, innovations, building infrastructure to support program implementation, and collaborations across home visiting programs as needed.

Duties and Responsibilities (these duties are a general summary and not all inclusive):

•        Collaborate with partners to support the implementation of DPIE home visiting programs for pregnant and parenting families that are trauma-informed, healing-centered, and community-driven.

•        Serve as the point of contact for local contracted agencies to provide technical assistance and support, monitor performance, and ensure compliance with program requirements.

•       Develop and maintain tools to standardize program implementation processes and procedures to ensure success and model fidelity.

•        Establish action plans with local contracted agencies to address concerns with program performance.

•        Collaborate to prepare content of grant applications, reports, funding announcements, budgets, contracts, and other project-related materials, ensuring timely submission and adherence to federal and state requirements.

•        Review and support use of quantitative and qualitative data (e.g., performance measures, evaluation data, family feedback) to drive decision-making and inform program innovations and improvements.

•        Coordinate and facilitate meetings with state and local partners, such as provider meetings, learning collaboratives, and advisory committees.

•        Participate in and/or coordinate special projects to support state collaborations, program planning, innovations, and building infrastructure to support program implementation, as needed.

•        Support sustainability efforts, exploring payment and reimbursement options for fiscal sustainability of the programs – and facilitate program expansion within communities and across the state.

Required Qualifications:

•        Awareness of the social, economic, technological, and ecological factors, trends, and problems involved in human services planning.

•        Knowledge of the methods of general report writing.

•        Knowledge of the methods and techniques of statistics, including means, medians, modes, and standard deviations.

•        Knowledge of the terminology and standard abbreviations used in statistics.

•        Knowledge of the methods used in the preparations of charts, graphs, and tables.

•        Ability to analyze and determine the applicability of data, to draw conclusions and to make appropriate recommendation.

•        Ability to understand, explain and apply the laws, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, specifications, standards, and guidelines governing       assigned unit activities.