AmeriCorps Member – Special Events Coordinator

Healthy Communities is CHC’s Ameri Corps program designed to create cohesion in vulnerable communities and to promote healthcare and support services through outreach, awareness, linkage to care and support. Healthy Communities also serves to identify the unique and integral needs of our communities and neighborhoods and to establish strategic plans to address them. Service delivery will directly address the public health crisis in vulnerable communities and make healthcare and support services accessible through flexible delivery of services.

Ameri Corps members will conduct community outreach, education, patient engagement, and link patients to CHCI care and referrals to community based assistance. Additionally, Ameri Corps members will participate in statewide and local activities which promote awareness of health and health services.

This is an Ameri Corps Member role – Special Events Coordinator – that supports the Communications Department in Middletown and throughout CT.

• One-year service term from September 8, 2026 thru August 31, 2027
• Serve a minimum of 33 hours a week for a total of 1700 hours during service year
• $25,000 stipend over the course of one year, paid bi-weekly
• An education award of $7,395 at the end of successful service term completion
• This is not a staff position.

• Possess a positive energetic attitude
• Enjoy working with people
• Are extremely organized and pay great attention to detail
• Have a strong interest in public relations
• Thrive in a fast paced environment
• Can take initiative and work independently as well as part of a team

• Conduct monthly patient health education workshops; monitor the completion of pre-post surveys by workshop participants; and complete data entry of workshops and surveys.
• Track and document all completed patient engagement activities in patient’s electronic health record.
• Serve across organization to identify and maintain calendar of events from all CHC departments, sites, schools, programs that will provide health education in the community, improve patients’ access to healthcare services as well as provide resources that Ameri Corps members can leverage to implement outreach activities.
• Collaborate with communications team to develop content for social media and digital platforms to promote events.
• Provide logistical support and coordination of event planning activities for identified events like client registration, ordering and/inventorying of supplies, room reservation, etc.
• Design and provide content for CHC Ameri Corps social media and CHC website to promote health education sessions in the community.
• Work with Ameri Corps program to create and design content related to Ameri Corps member outreach and education sessions within the community, including distribution of marketing materials.
• Participate in community and internal meetings.

• High school or equivalent required
• Proficiency in Microsoft office and internet-related applications
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Excellent oral and written skills
  
  Successful clearance of all required criminal history checks (NSCHC)
• Able to travel between CHC sites and in state

• Associate’s degree in public health, communications, public relations related field
• Bilingual Spanish/English
• Knowledge and/or experience utilizing various social media and technology platforms
• Experience creating, designing, marketing content

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