Adolescent Health Program Manager

DEPT OF HEALTH SERVICES

The Arizona Department of Health Services promotes and protects the health of Arizona's children and adults. Our mission is to promote, protect, and improve the health and wellness of individuals and communities in Arizona. We strive to set the standard for personal and community health through direct care, science, public policy, and leadership. ADHS promotes alternative work schedules, flexible hours. We have positions that can fit any stage in your career;

from entry to senior level. We offer a robust benefit package, including the ADHS Student Loan Assistance Program, where eligible employees can receive up to $300.00 per month for their outstanding student loans. Come check us out and see how you can make a difference in the lives of all Arizonans.

The Adolescent Health Programs prioritize the need to enhance equitable and optimal initiatives to positively impact the emotional, physical, and social wellbeing of adolescents, including youth with special health care needs. Programs and initiatives implemented include Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Bullying Prevention, Youth Mental Health, Youth Councils, and other adolescent health initiatives.

This Adolescent Health Program Manager (AH PM) functions within the Adolescent Health team under the direct supervision of the Adolescent and Family Health Manager. This position is responsible for managing youth mental health, bullying prevention and teen pregnancy prevention programming and reporting, and other adolescent health initiatives as needed, and is responsible for maintaining OWH websites up-to-date. The position assists contracted programs with ensuring that the concepts they plan to implement are evidence-based, realistic, and delivered with fidelity.

They will be required to work closely with each contractor to ensure compliance with the contract as well as state and federal law. The AH PM requires frequent statewide travel and occasional national travel. This position will have a hybrid work schedule and there will be occasional in office days for bureau related meetings and/or projects, as needed.

This position is responsible for, but not limited to:

• Managing adolescent health programming efforts, including but not limited to the Youth Mental Health First Aid initiative and contracts, bullying prevention initiatives, and teen pregnancy prevention contracts.
• Providing day-to-day technical assistance to sub-recipients
• Review and approval of contractor invoices, narrative reports, and fidelity monitoring reports; monitoring program budgets
• Coordination and/or training of health educators for implementation of Youth Mental Health First Aid, Wyman's Teen Outreach Program and other curricula, and professional development and conferences
• Coordination, co-facilitation of and participation in the Youth Mental Health Steering Committee and execution of projects.
• Identifying opportunities to leverage other adolescent health programming to integrate mental health
• Maintaining OWH websites up-to-date and coordinating development of new sites, as needed
• Developing, updating, and implementing youth mental health program policy and procedures, quality improvement and tracking tools
• Conducting annual contractor site visits and facilitator observations
• Collection of data from contractors and reporting to proper channels
• Coordinating efforts to develop, foster and maintain relationships internally and externally with community partners in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
• Representing the program and ADHS at various internal and external meetings as needed.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage program contracts including but not limited to: providing day-to-day technical assistance to contracted programs; review and approval of contractor invoices and reports; monitor sub-recipient program budgets, and coordinate paperwork for development of purchase orders. Ensure proper implementation of programming including conducting status meetings and annual site visits. Write grant applications and reports; write requests for proposals and evaluate applications. Implement and monitor program policy to adhere to federal and state requirements.
  
  Identify and develop collaborations and partnerships between individuals and agencies involved in adolescent health programming. This will require in-state and out-of-state travel.
• Coordinate and/or participate in committee…