Community Program Director, Blood Pressure Initiative-PART-TIME

Overview

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We are currently hiring a Community Program Director, Health Equity Blood Pressure Initiative in Buffalo NY.  The Director working closely with health centers, community organizations, and community stakeholders in the Buffalo market to drive health equity with a special focus on hypertension and factors impacting hypertension such as social determinates of health, etc.  The Director will work to increase access to quality care, patient engagement, and reduce barriers to health by engaging community-based organizations to create clinic-community connections that support systemic changes and health promotion activitiies across organizations.

 

This is a part-time (20 hours per week), grant funded position.  Current funding is approximately through December 2024.  This is a Home-Office based position, with local travel in the Buffalo NY area.

 

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Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Lead operations to establish systematic community-based blood pressure screening, education, and referral interventions, to include clinical connections.  Ensure coverage and support of self-monitoring blood pressure.
• Design and facilitate training and technical support opportunities for community-based organizations and direct service providers.  Enable organizations to offer health education related to hypertension including Blood Pressure self-management.
• Engage Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funded and other health centers in systems change work and participation in outpatient quality programs passionate about improving blood pressure management and addressing other barriers.
• Facilitate community dialogue and listening sessions to better understand the community’s needs.  Work collaboratively with internal and external partners, including region and state-level health strategies colleagues, to ensure that local opportunities are aligned with the American Heart Association's agenda at the state and regional level and that public policy opportunity are actualized.  
• Identify, recruit, and facilitate local cross sector leaders to participate in an engagement council and provide a forum to advise ongoing work.
• Ensure local opportunities are aligned with the American Heart Association's broader advocacy, quality, and mission related agenda at the state and region level. Activate support for public policy opportunities.

 

Qualifications

 Qualifications

• 3 years of relevant experience in public health administration, healthcare organization, program development, or equivalent type experience.
• Comprehensive knowledge of health care systems, clinical settings, public health, voluntary health organizations or nonprofit organizations.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with volunteers, staff, and the public.
• University/College degree or equivalent experience, preferred.
• Bilingual, English/Spanish preferred, but not required.
• Demonstrated ability to simultaneously handle multiple, complex projects in varying stages of development under time constraints.
• Proven experience in facilitation and motivational interviewing.
• Must have at least intermediate knowledge and skill with Microsoft Office.
• Ability to lift and/or move large objects (such as boxes) with the expectation that heavier items would be broken down into smaller components or requesting additional assistance may be required before lifting and/or moving.

• Ability to do daily local travel; requires access to reliable transportation at all times on an immediate basis.

Compensation & Benefits

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Salary is budgeted at $42,500 for this part-time