Program Consultant

Are you looking to join an exciting, dedicated team of professionals that work to improve the health and well-being of women, infants, children, and adolescents in California? To accomplish its mission, the Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Division (MCAH) maintains partnerships, contracts, and agreements with state, federal, and local agencies in both public and private sectors. MCAH hosts an array of programs and initiatives to serve the state's diverse populations and regions providing important resources, information and data about reproductive health, family planning, pregnancy, birth outcomes and more. Most programs and initiatives within MCAH are funded by the 1935 Social Security Act's Title V Block Grant.  The Black Infant Health program works to decrease Black maternal and infant health disparities through a group based model with complimentary life planning.

Under the direction of the Health Program Manager (HPM) I, Chief of the Black Infant Health Program Unit, the Health Program Specialist (HPS) I functions as a program consultant providing programmatic support to the Black Infant Health (BIH) program by managing a caseload of BIH counties, providing technical assistance to those counties and assisting with expert technical assistance related to the reduction of health disparities in underserved / under-resourced populations, specifically the African American population. The HPS I will collaborate with Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (MCAH) Program Consultants, Policy Development and Epidemiology Research Scientists, and other state agency partners and stakeholders in identifying and decreasing health disparities. The HPS I assures coordination with related Title V activities and integration of Title V MCAH priorities as appropriate; provide additional Title V related support as needed to assure alignment of program goals.

Desirable Qualifications

In addition to evaluating each candidate's relative ability, as demonstrated by quality and breadth of experience, the following factors will provide the basis for competitively evaluating each candidate:

The candidate for this position must possess the following qualifications:

• The ability to provide culturally sensitive program support and work collaboratively with the Perinatal Equity Section and other Title V funded programs.
• The ability to develop and implement program standards to promote optimal program outcomes.
• The ability to support programs with development of tools and resources for program effectiveness, and quality improvement; ability to monitor and track birth outcomes and provide support services to address health inequities in underserved and under-resourced communities as well as ethnic populations.
• The ability to assist with organizing and providing resource support for trainings to state and local program staff on public health performance monitoring and continuous quality improvement, and effective program implementation.

How To Apply

Complete Application Packages (including your Examination/Employment Application (STD 678) and applicable or required documents) must be submitted to apply for this Job Posting. Application Packages may be submitted electronically through your CalCareer Account at www.CalCareers.ca.gov. When submitting your application in hard copy, a completed copy of the Application Package listing must be included.

At the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), equity, diversity, and inclusion are at the core of our mission to advance the health and well-being of California’s diverse people and communities. We are genuinely and strongly committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness where we can grow and learn together with a diverse team of employees. In recruiting for team members, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring to us and the work we do.