Posting number: 55085
Department: Health
Division: Public Health
Job classification: Program Coordinator 2
Posting type: Open
Categories: Health Services, Public Health, Program Management
This Individual Position is Exempt from the Hiring Freeze. Qualified Applicants are Encouraged To Apply.
Welcome to the Department of Health!
We’d be delighted to have you join our team.
If you envision yourself in this role and are ready to start an exciting career with us, apply today!
What you will be doing:
As the WIC Program Coordinator, you’ll play an important role in helping women, infants, and children in your community access essential nutrition services and support. You’ll lead daily WIC service delivery while providing nutrition education, breastfeeding support, referrals, and supplemental food assistance directly to families. You’ll help ensure services are welcoming, efficient, and consistent with state and federal WIC requirements. This is a rewarding opportunity to serve as a trusted community resource and make a meaningful difference in the health and well-being of Alaska’s families.
Our organization, mission, and culture:
The Division of Public Health is the state's lead public health agency focused on the services that protect the public's health and advance the health status of all Alaskans and communities by preventing illness and injury.
WIC is part of a public health program providing nutrition and breastfeeding education, counseling, support, referrals to needed services and nutritious food to eligible women, infants and children up to age five.
We embrace the values of excellence, innovation, continuous improvement, integrity and inclusiveness.
In your role you will positively impact the food security of families across Alaska.
The benefits of joining our team:We are committed to employee health and well-being, offering opportunities for professional growth and development, and self-care in a supportive, collegial work environment with job stability and security.
Additional benefits include:
- option for hybrid telework, if desired
- 11 paid holidays
- paid leave
- retirement options
- insurance (health, vision, and dental)
The working environment you can expect:
This position is either located in either in the Juneau Public Health Center, in Juneau, AK or located in the heart of Anchorage, in the Frontier Building in mid-town Anchorage.
We are a close knit and fun team dedicated to supporting health access and equity with a passion for improving the lives of families, women, infants, children, and adolescents. The Division of Public Health has a long history of collaboration with health care providers, non-profits, educators, and families on improving maternal, newborn, and early childhood health outcomes.
Who we are looking for:
The ideal candidate will possess some or all of the following position-specific competencies in addition to the minimum qualifications listed below:
Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in
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Competency-Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions
This job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications. Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.
Competency Description
The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations rather than specific tasks and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.
Please ensure your application (through work history, training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports/demonstrates that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class. Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in
Equivalent to those typically gained by:
Training from an accredited college or university in any field and/or progressively responsible professional experience developing, planning, coordinating, and implementing a program, project, business, organization, or major components of a program, including having administrative authority over the program/project funding, staff, and/or overall operations.
Special Note
“Competencies” means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.
“Typically gained by” means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.
“Training” and “education” are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.
“Professional experience” means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment.
“Progressively responsible” means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.
At the time of the interview, please provide the following:
When using work experience not documented in your application, please provide the employer's name, job title, employment dates, and whether you worked full-time or part-time Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and if minimum qualifications are met Work experience needed to meet the minimum qualifications must be documented in the application If the application does not support minimum qualifications, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment A resume will not be used to determine that minimum qualifications have been met for the position you are applying for.
If you have currently or previously been appointed to a flexibly staffed position, please ensure your work experience within a flexibly staffed position indicates the actual dates employed at each level Ensure your time and any subsequent flex promotion(s) are documented as a separate position This is required as minimum qualifications require experience at a particular level in which the lower level may not be considered If this information is not accurately reflected in your application, this may cause the processing of your application for consideration to be delayed.
NOTE: Attaching a resume or curriculum vitae is not an alternative to filling out the application. Noting "see resume or CV" or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination that your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting.
The State of Alaska does not provide VISA Employer sponsorships.
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