ASST COUNTY HEALTH DEPT DIRECTOR-HLTH - 64000972

Requisition No: 876392 

Agency: Department of Health

Working Title: ASST COUNTY HEALTH DEPT DIRECTOR-HLTH - 64000972

 Pay Plan: SES

Position Number: 64000972 

Salary:  $80,000 - $88,000 

Posting Closing Date: 06/11/2026 

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Job posting category: Open Competitive (Anticipated Vacancy)

Job Title: ASSISTANT COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR

Your Specific Responsibilities:

This position spends the majority of the time engaged in supervisory responsibilities. This 
includes communicating with, motivating, training, and evaluating employees in addition to planning 
and directing employees' work. The incumbent has the authority to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, 
recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline subordinate employees or effectively 
recommend such action. The incumbent will also be required to develop performance expectations, 
meet with staff regularly to discuss performance, complete performance reviews, maintain vacation 
and work schedules, ensure proper coverage, and complete timesheets.

Provides direction to program managers to monitor the community health status in identifying health 
problems through review and collection of community health status data, population-based needs assessments 
and epidemiological and environmental processes.

Assists program managers in identifying, planning, writing and renewing grant applications and 
reports. Recommends and develops plans to target resources to produce strategic health outcomes. 
Develops internal objectives and priorities within regulatory, budgetary, and contractual 
guidelines, identifies staffing and financial needs.

Provides leadershipduring Emergency Preparedness events. Participates in all phases of emergency 
preparedness, including mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. Assesses Departments needs 
regarding all hazard's emergency preparedness training. Ensures the Department receives training 
programs.

Assumes a leadership role in the department's strategic planning and strategic plan implementation. 
Partners with community health groups to work on public health issues.

Serves as the Administrator's delegated authority and assumes responsibilities as delegated in the 
absence of the CHD Administrator.

Direct program managers in collecting and interpreting data to evaluate program outcomes. Assists 
in initiating and composing new position descriptions and updatingpresent position descriptions. 
Ensure staff complete time sheets and activity coding.

Reviews and approves purchase requisitions for official state business in accordance with Florida 
laws and DOH policies, rules and regulations governing purchasing.

Serves as Assistant Director providing administrative, operational, oversight, leadership, and 
management of the department's Environmental Services, Community Outreach, Strategic Planning, 
Quality Improvement, Health Education, and Dental Services.

Recommends and develops plans to target resources and produce strategic outcomes. Develops internal 
objectives and priorities within regulatory, budgetary, and contractual guidelines, identifies 
staffing and financial needs.

Provides Departments administrative requirements for their respectiveprograms. Including developing 
future service plans, budgets, personnel, and workload planning.

Represents the Health Department on various community health related boards and councils, both 
inter and intra agency in scope. Networks with and facilitate partnerships and collaboration with 
local health providers, schools, community agencies and business and consumer groups. Serves as 
board member /officer and as committee member as directed by CHD Administrator.

Oversee the Performance Management System and quality improvement strategies and methodologies to 
measure and improve underperforming measures. Provides operational leadership of continuous quality 
improvement activities. Participates in and actively promotes the Agency's organizational 
effectiveness and excellence by fostering individual and team development activities. Contributes 
to the organization's culture of performance excellence by actively seeking to improve personal and 
organizational performance through measurement, analysis, knowledge management, and processes 
improvements and participation in performance management committees, councils, and/or workgroups. 
Oversee the administration and reporting for the Strategic Plan, Per