Hybrid Community Health Extender; Program Coordinator Southwestern Region - Cancer Preventio

Job Description - (Hybrid) Community Health Extender (Program Coordinator) Southwestern Region - Cancer Prevention and Control (28807)

(Hybrid) Community Health Extender (Program Coordinator) Southwestern Region - Cancer Prevention and Control 28807

Description

The Cancer Institute/Cancer Prevention and Control at West Virginia University is currently accepting applications for a (Hybrid) Community Health Extender (Program Coordinator) for Southwestern Region of West Virginia. This position will support the following counties in West Virginia:
Boone, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam, Roane, Wayne, Wirt, and Wood. Frequent travel will be required to these areas.

This position participates in and contributes to the mission, vision, and strategic plan of WVU Cancer Institute (WVUCI) and Department of Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC). The position works in conjunction with the staff, faculty, and the community to organize and implement efforts related to community outreach and engagement, navigation, and research in cancer control. This includes establishing, maintaining and cultivating positive long-term relationships with community partners, coordinating and implementing community cancer prevention and risk reduction education and cancer screening programs, and assisting with building capacity for community research.

The Department of CPC serves all of West Virginia and this position is remotely based within a designated multi-county region of the state and will require frequent travel throughout the state. Work effort enhances state, regional, and national partnerships, delivery of service, community engagement, and WVUCI priorities.

This is a hybrid position, requiring attending meetings and training at the CPC office on campus at least one day per month and sometimes more. An on-campus work station is provided for those times.

This position will support the following counties in West Virginia:
Boone, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam, Roane, Wayne, Wirt, and Wood. Frequent travel will be required to these areas.

• 37.5-hour work week
• 13 paid holidays (staff holiday calendar)
• 24 annual leave (vacation) days per year (employee leave)
• 18 sick days per year (for when you’re ill, for when you need time to care for sick family, for your own, or your family’s, regularly scheduled medical appointments. Who is family for the purpose of this leave? A lot of people in your life including immediate relatives and in-laws as well as others considered to be members of your household living under the same roof)
• WVU offers a range of health insurance and other benefits
• 401(a) retirement savings with 6% employee contribution match, eligibility to continue health insurance, and other retiree perks. Looking for more retirement benefits information ? Check out retirement health insurance benefits, retirement income, and FAQ’s.
• Wellness programs

• Identifies, develops, and maintains partnerships with strategic stakeholders, community, and professional partners, and various community-based organizations throughout West Virginia and the Appalachian region.
• Collaborates with internal and external partners to build capacity to address cancer burden; including assisting with community needs assessments, attending and coordinating community meetings, and providing bidirectional communication.
• Conducts, in partnership, at least two monthly community focused cancer control activities in the assigned region.
• Responsible for the design, development, and implementation of community outreach and engagement plans for the assigned region. Includes dissemination of public/patient educational materials, outreach and promotion materials, and communication campaigns.
• Coordinates and facilitates internal and external programmatic meetings to monitor progress of projects or initiatives as assigned. This includes developing agendas, facilitating meetings, recording meeting minutes, disseminating meeting minutes and action items as appropriate, and monitoring progress on identified action items and program deliverables.
• Contributes to the design,…