Public Health Program Supervisor; Prepared and Thriving Communities

The City of Bloomington Public Health Division is seeking an individual to lead our efforts to build and enhance community resilience in Bloomington, Edina, and Richfield through emergency preparedness and response, community health improvement, and community resilience work.

• Develops, supports, and models a positive and productive workplace culture based on respect, dignity, honesty, and integrity. Allows staff to grow and succeed by providing opportunities for increased responsibility and creating a positive work culture
• Supports and advances organizational development efforts such as developing a high performing organization, employee engagement, workforce development, inclusion and equity, and performance measurement efforts
• Works cooperatively with others; develops and maintains respectful and effective working relationships with diverse coworkers and community members; consistently brings a high level of self-awareness and empathy to all personal interactions
• Proactively resolves conflicts and misunderstandings in order to ensure a respectful and inclusive workplace
• Seeks to understand the legacy of structural racism, and its impact on employees and the residents we serve; identifies any implications and adverse equity impacts when developing or reviewing policies, projects, activities and interactions with stakeholders
• Embraces the City's shared values and contributes towards accomplishing the City's vision and goals by being creative, innovative, continuously learning, and communicating clearly

Organizational

Competencies:

Leadership, Supervision, Work Plan Management

• Supervises, guides, and instructs the work assignments of staff comprised of the following program areas:
  • Emergency Preparedness & SHIP
    • Manages compliance with all Emergency Preparedness and SHIP-related grant duties on an ongoing basis, including monitoring of program deliverables, reporting, program impact data, and budget.
    • Oversees all work related to building community resilience, SHIP, and capacity, including but not limited to sustainability initiatives, emergency preparedness trainings and exercises, climate emergencies, and protective factors that impact emergency preparedness in the community and decrease social vulnerability.
    • Oversees all emergency response activities including coordination of staff and volunteers for emergency roles and supporting policies for emergencies.
    • Oversees team collaboration with EP and SHIP to support intersection of community work that creates impactful and sustainable community resilience.
    • Demonstrates thorough knowledge of EP and SHIP grant guidelines.
    • Attends regular cross-collaborative meetings with Edina and Richfield to report on program progress and to garner community insights for PSE (Policy, Systems and Environmental) changes.
    • Keeps informed of activities or changes and assesses hazards that could affect the likelihood of and response to an emergency, as well as those that could affect response efforts and plan implementation.

Accountability & Performance Management

• Provides technical assistance to support the performance management system and a culture of continuous quality improvement.
• Supports employee engagement, inclusion, equity, and performance measurement efforts in the department

• Identifies adverse equity impacts when developing or reviewing policies, projects, activities, and interactions with stakeholders and takes appropriate action.
• Communicates appropriately and effectively with people (both employees and the public) from various racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

• Performs other related duties as apparent or assigned.

Knowledge of:

• State Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP) grant including key domains and overall public health promotion guiding principles
• Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response foundational capabilities
• Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP), Communities Readiness Initiative (CRI), and Response and Sustainability Grant (RSG)
• Current events that may have an impact on the communities the Department serves.
• Population health approaches and frameworks, particularly pertaining to community health improvement and emergency preparedness and response.
• Methods for problem-solving, conflict resolution, facilitation, change management, and leadership.
• How racial equity skills can be applied in public health and personnel…