Program Coordinator - Epidemiology Surveillance

at Cook County Government in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Job Posting:Jun 17, 2024, 2:01:24 PMClosing Date:Jul 2, 2024, 12:59:00 AMFull-timeShift Start Time:8:30A.M.Shift End Time:4:30P.M.
Collective Bargaining Unit:NonePosting Salary:COMPETITIVE
Organization:Health and Hospital Systems

Job Summary

Location: Department of Public Health/10220 S 76th Ave Bridgeview, IL 60455
Department: Public Health
Shift: Days
Grant Funded: End Date 11-30-2026

Job Summary
The Program Coordinator of Epidemiology Surveillance programs provide programmatic leadership and coordinates planning, implementation, and evaluation of substance use behavioral risk and exposures, injury, and health outcomes related activities such as the Opioid, Behavioral Health (BH), and Maternal Child Health (MCH). The position will provide leadership and direction, as well as administrative management, to ensure successful implementation of the initiative. This will include, but is not limited to, collaboration and coordination with external and internal partners, ensuring all Opioid Data to Action objectives are met and reports are prepared and submitted in a timely manner; facilitation management systems that promote communication, evaluation, sustainability of the initiatives.

Typical Duties
Provides programmatic leadership and coordinates planning, implementation and evaluation of the Opioid, BH, and MCH Epidemiology Surveillance Programs.
Works to advance morbidity and mortality surveillance infrastructure and information that supports harm reduction, stigma reduction, public safety partnerships/intervention strategies in suburban Cook County.
Manages all aspects of the Cook County Department of Public Health's (CCDPH) Opioid Data to Action activities to ensure successful implementation and evaluation of the initiative and the overarching goal of linking data and community-based interventions.
Identifies and develops strategic partnerships, and support and collaborates with data and surveillance.
Facilitates management systems that promote communication, coordination, and accountability among staff, across the agency, and with partners. Facilitates management systems that promote communication, coordination, and accountability among staff, across the agency, and with partners.
Develops materials for key stakeholders to raise awareness about the initiative, in collaboration with the BH Unit.Informs the department of prevention message by the Behavioral Health Unit by providing guidance on the interpretation of surveillance data.
Manages day-to-day operations aligned with Opioid Data to Action local grant, and ensures activities align and advance initiative objectives. Coordinating with the Epidemiology Unit (Director of Epidemiology and Substance Use Epidemiologist), the BH Unit (Community Engagement Manager and Substance Use Prevention staff), the Chicago Department of Public Health opioid team: Grants manager, GIS specialist, project coordinator, and substance use epidemiologist.
Provides support for successful implementation, evaluation, or submission of administrative requirements, e.g., program and finance reports.
OD2A Grant management that supports grant proposal development, budget and financial management, compliance and reporting, monitoring and evaluation, record keeping, and communication with the Grantor.
Facilitates internal and external communication and coordination both within and between the Opioid Data to Action, BH Epidemiology, and MCH initiatives and other units within CCDPH.
Coordinates development and implementation of evaluation plan, in collaboration with the BH Unit's Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator and completes reporting; identifies gaps and opportunities to improve opioid, behavioral health, MCH Epidemiology program performance. Assists the BH Unit and other internal units and partners with the development and monitoring of program evaluation, performance management and quality improvement activities.
Ensures all grant deliverables and reporting requirements are met on time.
Integrates Opioid Data to Action, BH, and MCH activities into the overall efforts of the Epidemiology Unit in a sustainable manner that aligns with the unit's standard operating procedures, workforce development, and data management frameworks. This involves developing standard operating procedures, workflows, logic models, data management frameworks, and workforce development plans.
Coordinates development and implementation of evaluation plan in collaboration with the Nursing Epidemiologist and Chief Nursing Officer and completes reporting; and identifies gaps and opportunities to improve MCH surveillance program performance. Assists the Behavioral Health Unit and other internal Units and partners with the development and monitoring of program evaluation, performance management, and quality improvement activities.
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