Bilingual Community Health Educator

Overview

The Community Health Educator for Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas (PPGT) is responsible for facilitating sexual health education programs for young people, parents, and other adults within assigned region. The Community Health Educator develops new community contacts and maintains existing programs, serving as an advocate and liaison for PPGT’s health education programs. Meets productivity expectations, follows organization policies, and ensures customer service and compliance standards are maintained.

Abides by the organization’s mission in performing job duties. Demonstrates an understanding and commitment to PPGT’s culture of customer service, quality, safety and risk awareness.

• Schedules and facilitates evidence-based or informed health education programs on a variety of human sexuality topics for diverse groups of youth and adults in a variety of settings including schools and other community sites. Ensures that all programs are age‑appropriate, medically accurate, values neutral, inclusive of gender and sexual minority people, and trauma‑informed. Topics may include but are not limited to: healthy relationships, sexual decision‑making, contraception, sexual orientation, consent, puberty and adolescent development, sexually transmitted infections, and safer sex practices.
• In conjunction with management, designs program content to meet the needs of the client when no appropriate curricula exist.
• Evaluates and researches the program setting and tailors the presentation content based on the audience or environment.
• Builds and maintains positive, professional working relationships with community partners for service delivery. Builds effective and trustworthy relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Identifies and recommends potential community partners to expand education services and programming.
• Maintains current electronic and paper records and meets the requirements necessary to fulfill funding and/or evaluation requirements. May assist in preparing department reports.
• Serves as a resource in the community for evidence-based sexual health information.
• Works closely with Community Health Education Manager and other team members to ensure coordinated service delivery.
• Participates in supervision meetings, staff meetings, and all other required meetings or trainings.
• Represents the organization at meetings and community events, as appropriate.
• May be responsible for leading and coordinating all aspects of peer education programs including: publicity/marketing, auditions, training, skit writing, rehearsals, performances, ongoing communication, parental consent, transport, scheduling, and securing venues.
• May be responsible to respond and interact with the public/patients via Planned Parenthood’s text and online chat program per Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) guidelines and PPGT protocols.
• Has restricted access to patient private health information and has no reason to view protected health information (PHI). May have access to data that is not considered PHI, such as aggregate numbers.
• Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted or changed at any time at the discretion of management, formally or informally, either verbally or in writing.

High School diploma or equivalent + 5 years of related experience or Associate’s degree + 3 years of related experience or Bachelor’s degree + 1 year of related experience. Related experience: experience in health/social services field. Must have experience as educator/trainer and in public speaking. Experience in providing curriculum-based sexual health education to groups of youth and parents preferred. Certification as a Sexuality Educator or as a Certified Health Education Specialist…