NUTRITION INCENTIVE PROJECT SPECIALIST

Job Role Summary

Essential Duties

• Implements aspects of the Indianapolis Fresh Bucks program, a benefit extension incentive program for participants of the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Marion County.
• Implements aspects of the Marion County Produce Prescription program (PRx), a nutrition education and produce incentive program. 
• Identifies appropriate retail sites for program delivery, negotiates engagement activities, assists in preparing necessary partner documentation, and serves as the lead contact person with them. 
• Assures training, testing, and other implementation support is provided for healthcare partners, vendors, markets, retail operations on their use of electronic benefits software and related issues.
• Plans projects and activities related to county-wide promotion of nutrition incentive programs/food is medicine and/or other chronic disease prevention programs.
• Encourages and promotes program activities within a variety of community settings and program sites such as schools, priority neighborhoods, and the general community. 
  
• Prepares reports, analyses program data, and develops other documents for funders as well as program monitoring. 
• Represents MCPHD on boards, committees, task groups and/or coalitions committed to increasing availability and access to healthy foods, including the Indiana Nutrition Incentive Network
• Builds relationships with city/county agencies, corporations, national voluntary associations, community-based organizations, and collective impact coalitions, in coordination with other Nutrition Incentives personnel at MCPHD.
• Conducts evaluation activities including preparing reports, presentations, and papers specific to nutrition incentive/food is medicine and other chronic disease prevention initiatives. 
• Designs and develops programmatic educational print material and electronic messaging as necessary and requested.
  
• Acts as contact person regarding Fresh Bucks and/Produce Rx for HHC/MCPHD Public Relations Department staff. 
• Maintains confidentiality of information: (a breech is reason for termination).
• Participates in public health emergency preparedness exercises and in the response to public health emergencies, as directed. 
• Participates in a minimum of two H.O.P.E. events totaling a minimum of eight (8) hours annually. 
• Other duties as assigned.

Associated Job Duties

• Functions as team member along with other Chronic Disease Program staff.
• Assumes responsibility for professional self-growth and continued development in relevant public health practices.

Qualifications

Licenses/Certifications Required

• Current Indiana driver’s license.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Basic understanding of the structure, operations, policies of federal food assistance programs.
• Basic understanding of the operational practices of community health centers.
• Experience in creating and implementing policies, guidelines, and/or protocols within organizations. 
• Knowledge of operational, mathematical, analytical and statistical research techniques used in decision making.
• Proficiency In developing and managing spreadsheets.
• Knowledge of:
  • Public health principals and concepts.
  • Institutional policy development.
  • Data management/analysis including financial data.
  • Intermediary statistical methods.
• Language Skills:
  • Interact tactfully with internal and external organizational personnel, public, and community groups.
  • Convene work teams and provide leadership in complex, stressful situations.
  • Exercise deductive reasoning, professional judgment, and accept responsibility for decisions.
  • Write meaningful and complex technical plan reviews, reports and policies/ procedure manuals.
• Mathematical Skills:
  • Compute rate, ratio, percent and to design and interpret simple graphs.
• Reasoning Ability:
  • Read, analyze, and interpret professional journals and government regulations.
  • Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
  • Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
  • Flexibility and high level of organizational skill to respond effectively to changing situations and priorities.
    
    Supervisory Responsibility   

    N/A; May be responsible for activities of interns; assigns work to clerical staff. 

Working Environment

• Primarily office environment; health centers, considerable outreach activities in varied public sites and farmers’ markets throughout the county.
• Physical demands include lifting light weight materials on a routine basis.