Senior Staff Analyst

Salary Range: $47.59-$68.67 hourly

SUMMARY

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (LAC-DHS) Women’s Health Programs and Innovation (WHPI) Division is seeking a Senior Staff Analyst (SSA) to provide planning, coordination, implementation, and administration of WHPI program initiatives and projects.  The expertise necessary for this position is in community health education program management and related to women’s health programs.  The SSA will lead and manage various grant related deliverables related to WHPI Health Education and other related programs, to include enterprise and community wide management of Health Education services, as directed.

This position will manage the full scope of programmatic implementation activities and deliverables.

The incumbent will demonstrate excellence in collaborating with internal and external stakeholders such as the Substance Abuse Prevention and Control (SAPC) of the Department of Public Health, the Health Care Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the Federal government, with the DHS WHPI and MAMAS Leadership Team, and other LAC-DHS and State stakeholders. 

The SSA will be responsible for hiring, training, supervising, and evaluating a team of Health Educators, Assistant Staff Analysts, Staff Analysts and other levels of staff working within WHPI. 

The SSA will work closely with community-based organizations, utilizing a special focus on curriculum developed to identify, assess and be of service to persons of reproductive age in high-risk populations.

The SSA will also contribute to various WHPI evaluation projects associated with grant deliverables. 

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS


* Knowledge in community and individual Health Education associated with Maternal and Child Health to successfully perform in the role.


* Program planning and development associated with WHPI’s multiple projects.


* Program management of WHPI’s community-based health education programs.


* Develops and implements the health education curriculum by training Health Educators (HEs), Community Health Workers (CHWs), Social Workers (SW) and nursing staff on sexual and reproductive health topics.


* Overseeing the development and implementation of evidenced based curriculum for the SAPC and two HRSA grants related to reproductive and sexual health, SUD, and maternal mental health


* Acts as a consultant and subject matter expert for the DHS MAMAS health education program.

Serves as a liaison and consultant to the program managers and medical directors associated with WHPI projects by directing, fielding questions, coordinating responses to inquiries, mandates, and audit requests.


* Provide expertise to the MAMAS Leadership Team and staff in the most current health education research and practices associated with people of childbearing capacity in high-risk populations in subjects related to, but not exclusive to, family planning, pre-conception, prenatal and postpart...