PATHWAYS CHRONIC DISEASE INTERN (50080399)

Job Role Summary

Supports Chronic Disease Department through participation in educational, outreach, and engagement initiatives to promote stated department objectives.  Creates and/or utilizes reporting mechanisms to describe and document community participation, reach of educational strategies, program implementation, and evaluation data.  Carries out observational activities and independent projects, as assigned. 

Essential Duties

• Assists in communicating the objectives/services of the Chronic Disease Department and its individual initiatives to the public, community agencies, and professional groups. 
• Develops health education resources needed to inform, educate and empower communities related to nutrition, physical activity, dementia, tobacco and vaping, and other related subjects.  
• Plans and implements projects and activities related to both county-wide and targeted promotion, as assigned. 
• Participates in tobacco, nutrition, dementia, and other related workgroups and coalitions as both a learner and providing support. 
• Creates content for various department social media accounts for posting by MCPHD personnel. 
• Carries out evaluation activities including collecting and entering outreach data, preparing reports, and creating visualizations. 
• Maintains confidentiality of information: (a breech is reason for termination) 
• Other duties as assigned.
• Functions as a student team member along with other Chronic Disease Program staff.
• Assures supervisor is apprised of expectation for professional self-growth and continued development in relevant public health practices.

Qualifications

Education/Licensure/Certifications/Experience

• Current graduate student in public health, business administration, public affairs, health education.  
• Current Indiana driver’s license.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Basic understanding of the operational practices of governmental and community-based organizations.
• Understands implementation of program plans and 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 principles 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.

Software skills:

• Word, Excel, PowerPoint, excellent working knowledge of social media platforms

Mathematical Skills

• Compute rate, ratio, percent and design and interpret simple graphs.

Reasoning Ability

• 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

Working Environment

• Balance of office environment and community sites for engagement activities.
   
• Physical demands include lifting light weight materials on a routine basis.