Epidemiology Program Manager - Public Health

Epidemiology Program Manager - Public Health

“Follow Your Calling, Find Your Career”

Hiring Range: $83,959.60 - $125,939.00

This is an exempt (salaried) position. Pay rates are based on education, skill, experience level and internal equity. Internal equity consideration included an assessment of the applicant’s salary history and qualifications in comparison to the market rate and requirement for the job.  

This role is on-site 5 days a week, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

About Us
At Mecklenburg County, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are with support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. We’re counting on YOUR unique voice and perspective to help Mecklenburg County Public Health become even better, too.  Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a healthier world for all.

As a member of the Mecklenburg County Public Health team, you will become a subject matter expert in the public health field.  The CDC foundation explains that “Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities.  This work is achieved by promoting health lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, detecting, preventing, and responding to infectious disease”.

Come be a part of Mecklenburg County’s Public Health department’s vision to “assure the health and safety of our diverse and changing community today and for future generations.”

Position Summary
Manage and oversee operational functions of County health programs to ensure quality, cost effective, efficient, and customer-friendly services. Sr. Health Program Managers oversee a wide variety of public health functions, including case management and care coordination, quality improvement/assurance, public health informatics, environmental health, community engagement, large-scale grants and clinic operations. A senior managerial position is responsible for aligning the strategic goals of the program(s) with the strategic goals of the Public Health Department and the County, implementing strategies to achieve these goals, assuring compliance with state and federal requirements and for providing professional/technical administrative management and direction for program managers and supervisors.

Essential Functions
• Leads the development, implementation, and evaluation of the Mecklenburg County Public Health Department’s epidemiological initiatives and publications.
• Conducts data analysis and reviews health indicators to assist leadership with measuring the health status of the county.
• Performs special studies, develops reports and attends meetings. Manages the collection, analysis, and dissemination of public health data
• Directs the daily operations of the Epidemiology program and provides general administrative and technical leadership of functions and activities
• Advises the Mecklenburg County Health Director and the executive team on epidemiology, morbidity and mortality trends, and health risks
• Provide leadership in developing, aligning and implementing strategic goals of the program with strategic goals of the division, department and County.
• Participate in community-level planning to develop partnerships with healthcare providers and areas of collaborative practice to ensure programs’ needs are met
• Assist with identifying funding opportunities and developing funding proposals
• Participate in the development of policies and procedures for area of responsibility
• In the event of a public health emergency, employees may be trained for and assigned duties unrelated to their regular work; work outside normal business hours and workdays and/or in a different work location may be required.
Emergency events include, but are not limited to, communicable disease outbreaks, severe weather situations (e.g. snow or ice storms, tornados, hurricanes), natural disasters (e.g. earthquakes), fire, or power outages, and acts of terrorism.

Minimum Qualifications
Experience:
Minimum of six years of experience and one year of supervisory experience or completion of an
approved supervisory training program.

Education:
Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Public Administration, Business Administration or related field.
Combination of relevant education and relevant experience accepted?: Yes

Licenses and Certifications
• Requires a valid North Carolina or South Carolina Driver's License
• May require a Mecklenburg County Operator's Permit if required to drive a County vehicle.
• May require a license if in a particular clinical, social work, or behavioral health field.

Preferred Qualifications
• Master's degree in Public Health, public administration, business administration or a related field.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Knowledge of
• Business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources
• Principles and processes for providing customer services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Budget development and monitoring
• The structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar
• Laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, and agency rules, and the political climate
• Epidemiology methods, especially descriptive and applied epidemiology related to communicable, chronic or environmentally induced diseases, maternal child health, or injury control
• Public health data, databases and related information sources; public health surveillance systems
• Data analysis, data collection, questionnaire design
• Data visualization and packaging for decision-making and target audience understanding
• Best practices for presentation of and reporting on data

Skills
• Preparing and delivering, on request and in a timely manner, a variety of written, graphic or oral presentations, reports, and documentation related to public health
• Using a computer and related software applications for data analysis and preparing written, graphic or oral presentations and reports of the findings in language appropriate for the target audience
• Incorporating data from a variety of sources to create an overview of a community health issue for presentation and report
• Conducting literature reviews and environmental scans
• Managing data, extracting data, building databases, scrubbing data, merging data sets
• Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
• Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions,
conclusions or approaches to problems
• Talking to others to convey information effectively
• Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions

Abilities
• Aligning Performance for Success: Focusing and guiding others in accomplishing work objectives
• Building Strategic Work Relationships: Developing and using collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals
• Building Trust: Interacting with others in a way that instills confidence in one’s intentions and those of the organization
• Collaboration: Working effectively and cooperatively with others; establishing and maintaining good working relationships
• Communication: Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals
or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the information provided
• Customer Focus: Ensuring that the customer perspective is a driving force behind business
decisions and activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers’ and own organization’s needs
• Formal Presentations: Presenting ideas effectively to individuals or groups; delivering
presentations suited to the characteristics and needs of the audience
• Initiating Action: Taking prompt action to accomplish objectives; taking action to achieve goals beyond what is required; being proactive
• Leading through Vision and Values: Keeping the organization’s vision and values at the forefront of associate decision-making and action
• Managing Work: Effectively managing one’s time and resources to ensure that work is completed efficiently
• Planning and Organizing: Establishing courses of action for self and others to ensure that work is completed efficiently
• Strategic Decision Making: Obtaining information and identifying key issues and relationships relevant to achieving a long-range goal or vision; committing to a course of action to accomplish a long-range goal or vision after developing alternatives based on logical assumptions, facts, available resources, constraints, and organizational values

Computer Skills
• Proficient use of a variety of computer applications including Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word, PowerPoint and Excel, as well as an additional statistical and data analysis application (SAS, Stata, SPSS, R, EpiInfo, etc)

Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Disclaimer Statement
This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, requirements or working conditions. Other duties may be assigned based on business need and the supervisor’s request.

Mecklenburg County reserves the right to revise the job description at any time. Designated positions may be required to assist in emergency and/or disaster situations.