Health Equity Lead: Shape Inclusive Care & Policy

Minnesota Direct Care and Treatment; Saint Peter (MN); Hybrid; USD 66,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

Direct Care and Treatment in Minnesota seeks a Health Equity Lead to advance statewide health equity within the DCT Health Equity team. The role focuses on eliminating disparities in service delivery and workplace culture, using data-driven evaluation and cross-unit collaboration.

You will work to center individuals served, advise leadership on resources and strategies, and help apply an equity lens to decision making and policy development.

Qualifications

• Three years of diversity, equity and inclusion experience with ethnically and culturally diverse communities.
• Experience with contemporary DEI theories and issues.
• Experience communicating complex information to varied audiences.
• Experience advising teams, coordinating training and staff development, and leading meetings.

Responsibilities

• Co-lead divisional health equity audit and implementation, tracking, and evaluation of health equity action plan.
• Lead service line implementation of health equity strategies with divisional leadership and management.
• Co-lead incorporation of equity in strategic planning, policy development and initiatives for system change.
• Provide leadership to ensure staff understand DCT’s health equity vision and applicable policies and procedures, and develop health equity skills.
• Support planning, design, implementation, analysis, and reporting on health disparities data assessments and evaluations.
• Evaluate clinical quality, equity in service delivery, and demographic/workplace data; apply scientific research methods to data analysis.

Skills

Diversity & inclusion

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Training & facilitation

Cross-cultural competence

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in health policy/public health/health education

Master's degree in health policy/public health/health administration/social work

Job description

Direct Care and Treatment in Minnesota seeks a Health Equity Lead to advance statewide health equity within the DCT Health Equity team. The role focuses on eliminating disparities in service delivery and workplace culture, using data-driven evaluation and cross-unit collaboration.

You will work to center individuals served, advise leadership on resources and strategies, and help apply an equity lens to decision making and policy development.