Coordinator, Community Health & Impact

Advocate Health; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Advocate Health is seeking a Community Health Coordinator in the Chicago area to plan and implement evidence-based programs that address social drivers of health. You will work with hospital sites and community partners to gather data, run events and monitor outcomes.

The role requires strong analytical and writing skills, plus experience coordinating programs across multiple stakeholders. Some evening/weekend work and local travel may be needed.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and writing skills.
• Knowledge of current and emerging best practices in large health systems addressing non-clinical drivers of health.
• Ability to coordinate community health programs, partnerships, meetings, events and related implementation activities across internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to collect, monitor and summarize program, community health assessment and community benefit data to support reporting, compliance and continuous improvement.
• Computer literacy in Microsoft programs including Excel, Publisher, Word and Access.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and implements evidence-based community health programming at designated hospital sites and prioritizes collaboration with community partners.
• Coordinates and implements specific tactics such as attending meetings, ordering supplies, gathering data, coordinating events and screenings and providing support to community partners.
• Collects monitoring and outcome data for community health programs.
• Participates in site Community Health Council meetings and other site meetings to promote system alignment with community health strategies.
• Collaborates with the director to implement data collection activities related to the Community Health Assessment to enable each hospital to measure community health needs and the impact of hospital interventions.
• Educates associates, management and hospital governance on issues impacting the health of the community and on the hospital's planned interventions to impact these issues.
• Implements activities to ensure accurate collection and summary of community benefit data for designated hospital sites.
• Facilitates reporting of community benefit activity for the hospital to ensure accuracy and monitor on-going hospital community benefit reporting.
• Supports and maintains trusting relationships with community leaders/representatives, faith groups, community based organizations, political/government officials and non-Advocate health care organizations/hospitals as well as other Advocate hospitals to address community needs.
• Represents designated hospital sites in local coalitions with a focus on coalitions addressing community health needs.
• Communicates site CHNA findings to community groups and solicit involvement in addressing identified needs.

Skills

Analytical skills

Written communication

Health systems knowledge

Program coordination

Data collection & reporting

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Publisher

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Access

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Bachelor's degree in public health or related field

Job description

Major Responsibilities:

• Coordinates and implements evidence-based community health programing that support needs identified at designated hospital sites and prioritizes collaboration with community partners.
• Coordinates and implements specific tactics associated with these programs such as attending meetings, ordering supplies, gathering data, coordinating events and screenings and providing support to community partners.
• Collects monitoring and outcome data associated with the various community health programs.
• Participates in site Community Health Council meetings and other site meetings that promote system alignment with community health strategies.
• Collaborates with the director to implement data collection activities related to the Community Health Assessment to enable each hospital to measure community health needs and the impact of hospital interventions.
• Educates associates, management and hospital governance on issues impacting the health of the community and on the hospital's planned interventions to impact these issues.
• Implements activities to ensure accurate collection and summary of community benefit data for designated hospital sites.
• Facilitates reporting of community benefit activity for the hospital to ensure accuracy and monitor on-going hospital community benefit reporting.
• Supports and maintains trusting relationships with community leaders/representatives, faith groups, community based organizations, political/government officials and non-Advocate health care organizations/hospitals as well as other Advocate hospitals to address community needs.
• Represents designated hospital sites in local coalitions with a focus on coalitions addressing community health needs.
• Communicates site CHNA findings to community groups and solicit involvement in addressing identified needs.

Education Required:

• High School Diploma or GED

Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required:

• N/A

Experience Required:

• 2 years of experience addressing and improving the social drivers of health, community health strategy, population health initiatives, or related areas.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• Strong analytical and writing skills.
• Knowledge of current and emerging best practices in large health systems addressing non-clinical drivers of health.
• Ability to coordinate community health programs, partnerships, meetings, events and related implementation activities across internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to collect, monitor and summarize program, community health assessment and community benefit data to support reporting, compliance and continuous improvement.
• Computer literacy in Microsoft programs including Excel, Publisher, Word and Access.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• Ability to travel within the metro community.
• Frequent need to attend off-site meetings.
• Able to work on evenings or week-ends in community.

Preferred Education:

• Bachelors degree in public health, epidemiology, social work, community development, public policy or a related field addressing the social drivers of health.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Strong analytical and writing skills.
• Knowledge of current and emerging best practices in large health systems addressing non-clinical drivers of health.
• Ability to coordinate community health programs, partnerships, meetings, events and related implementation activities across internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to collect, monitor and summarize program, community health assessment and community benefit data to support reporting, compliance and continuous improvement.
• Computer literacy in Microsoft programs including Excel, Publisher, Word and Access.

DISCLAIMER

All responsibilities and requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only responsibilities to be performed by an employee occupying this job or position. Employees must follow any other job-related instructions and perform any other job-related duties requested by their leaders.