HEALTHY DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR - 07222025-69628

Job Information

LOCATION OF (1) POSITION(S) TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, LOCAL HEALTH DIVISION, OBION COUNTY

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Qualifications

Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in public health, public administration, community planning, civic engagement, public policy, engineer, law, or economics with an internship, practicum, work study, or other practical experience and experience equivalent to two years of full-time professional public health, public administration, community planning, civic engagement, public policy, engineer, law, or economics work.

OR

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in public health, public administration, community planning, civic engagement, public policy, engineer, law, or economics and experience equivalent to three years of full-time professional public health, public administration, community planning, civic engagement, public policy, engineer, law, or economics work.

OR

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a master's degree in public health, public administration, community planning, civic engagement, public policy, engineer, law, or economics with an internship, practicum, work study, or other practical experience.

OR

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a master's degree in public health, public administration, community planning, civic engagement, public policy, engineer, law, or economics and experience equivalent to one year of full-time professional public health, public administration, community planning, civic engagement, public policy, engineer, law, or economics work.

Necessary Special Qualifications: A valid motor vehicle operator's license may be required.

Overview

Summary: Under general supervision, the Healthy Development Coordinator is responsible for coordinating and engaging partnerships that connect public health placed-based physical activity related to walking or bicycling for transportation, other built environment opportunities (such as parks and playgrounds), economic development and education. This position conducts transportation and built environment related planning activities of average difficulty, and performs related work as required.

Distinguishing Features: This is a new classification in the Tennessee Department of Health. An employee in this classification will learn to perform transportation, built environment and economic development related duties and will create opportunities to improve public health, primarily through increased opportunity to physical activity. The Healthy Development Coordinator will work on planning, funding, program and collaboration initiatives and will learn to participate in the varied development, monitoring and coordination of transportation and built environment projects.

Responsibilities

1. Encouraging internal and external customers to use limited resources to achieve their goals and objectives while simultaneously meeting the health and wellness needs of the community.
2. Achieves consensus in a group dynamic with a diverse group of participants to develop a plan that will best benefit the entire community. Assists internal and external business partners with developing plans for playgrounds, walking tracks, greenways, parks, and other venues for physical activity often with limited resources.
3. Learns to analyze current conditions, such as socio-economic trends, land use, traffic data, and economic development plans, in rural or metropolitan areas to determine impacts of transportation system and other features of the built environment.
4. Learns to determine impact of various local, regional and state legislative proposals upon planning processes and configures financial structure and availability of funds for various and local health related projects.
5. Analyzes county health data including measures which contribute to county health rankings and looks for viable opportunities for improvement.
6. Learns to coordinate with local and state planners, consultants, engineers, and volunteers in presenting recommended plans for review and comment by the public and the various planning committees.
7. Conducts and facilitates meetings as a Departmental representative by offering technical assistance and other support to local planners, chambers of commerce, development districts, and administrators to ensure compliance with Federal and State regulations. Coordinates with departmental representatives to draft correspondence in response to public comments and/or inquiries.
8. Creates and disseminates basic information packages, including but not limited to resource guides, policy manuals, and educational programs, for use in public information campaigns regarding the role of active transportation and the built environment on physical activity.

Competencies (KSA's)

Competencies:

1. Courage
2. Persuades
3. Drives Vision and Purpose
4. Optimizes Work Processes
5. Cultivates Innovation

Knowledge:

1. Administration Management
2. Law and Government
3. Transportation

Skills:

1. Critical Thinking
2. Persuasion
3. Speaking

Abilities:

1. Inductive Reasoning
2. Originality
3. Written Comprehension

Tools & Equipment

1. Computer
2. Projector
3. Telecommunication Devices
4. Printer
5. Copier

TN Driver Standards

State of Tennessee positions that may involve driving responsibilities require candidates to meet the following minimum driver qualifications:

• A valid driver's license
• For the past five years, the candidate's driver record must not have record of the following violations: driving under the influence (DUI), reckless driving, license suspension for moving violations, more than 4 moving violations.

Please include your Driver's License Information under the Licenses and Certifications section of your application.

**Agencies may allow an exception based on other factors.