Education Specialist

The Education Specialist position at the Cascades East Area Health Education Center (CEAHEC) within St. Charles Health System, is responsible for the design and delivery of all education programs offered by Cascades East Area Health Education Center. The Cascades East Area Health Education Center works with 10-12 high schools within Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson counties. This position provides provides a variety of occasional programming to the 50+ high schools in the 7 county area served by Cascades East Area Health Education Center.

The goal of all educational offerings by Cascades East Area Health Education Center is to increase the diversity of and distribution of health care professionals in rural, frontier and under-served areas. The position also manages the independent job shadow process for non-high school adults.

• Coordinates, implements, and delivers health careers education programs and activities as defined by the CEAHEC team and regional needs assessment. Current formal programs include Health Occupations, Diagnosis Days and Camp Med Stars.
• Develops and nurtures community partnerships for the purpose of supporting and delivering educational and academic programs.
• Coordinates scheduling for education programs and activities.
• Demonstrates best educational practice skills in teaching and presentation; stays current on use of educational technologies for distance program delivery.
• Coordinates evaluation process for programs and records evaluation data. Works with CEAHEC outside evaluators in providing data collection for larger evaluation purposes.
• Follows budget and resource guidelines for educational offerings and programs.
• Maintains grant tracking records, assists with grant writing and fund-raising as necessary.
• Represents CEAHEC (and SCHS) on regional, academic and health care career collaborations- including the Central Oregon STEM Hub;
  Better Together;
  Let’s Talk Diversity Coalition.
• Designs new training programs, new community health or outreach programs as needed.
• Supports the vision, mission and values of the organization in all respects.
• Supports Value Improvement Practice (VIP
  - Lean) principles of continuous improvement with energy and enthusiasm, functioning as a champion of change.
• Provides and maintains a safe environment for caregivers, patients and guests.
• Conducts all activities with the highest standards of professionalism and confidentiality. Complies with all applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures, supporting the organization’s corporate integrity efforts by acting in an ethical and appropriate manner, reporting known or suspected violation of applicable rules, and cooperating fully with all organizational investigations and proceedings.
• Delivers customer service and/or patient care in a manner that promotes goodwill, is timely, efficient and accurate.
• May perform additional duties of similar complexity within the organization, as required or assigned.

• Required:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in science, education or related field.
• Preferred:
  Masters in Education, Public Policy, Public Health or similar field.

• Required:
  
  Valid Oregon driver’s license and ability to meet SCHS driving requirements.
• Preferred:
  Teaching License.

• Required:
  
  Minimum 3 years’ experience in an education setting.
• Preferred: 5 years’ classroom experience in secondary education; preferably in science, health, CTE or related fields.
• Experience in curriculum design and implementation. Experience as a leader within academic settings.