Health Program Manager 3

State of Alaska; Anchorage (AK); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Telework flexibility

Job summary

State of Alaska is seeking an experienced Health Program Manager 3 to lead the Infectious Disease Program, including TB, HAI, and wastewater surveillance. This high‑impact role oversees statewide strategy, federal grants, and a diverse portfolio aimed at preventing and controlling diseases across Alaska.

You will guide strategy, ensure federal compliance, and strengthen partnerships with healthcare providers, Tribal organizations, and public health leaders to protect Alaskans’ health and safety.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in biological, health or behavioral science, health practice, education, public health or related field; plus supervisory or lead level experience.
• Experience in health program planning, development, coordination, evaluation, or implementation.
• Ability to build networks and strategic relationships across partnerships with health care providers, Tribal organizations, and public health leaders.
• Public health knowledge including infectious disease prevention, control, and response.
• Strong workforce management, recruitment, and performance management abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead statewide infectious disease program strategy, federal grants management and cross‑agency coordination.
• Guide program planning, evaluation, and implementation to prevent and control diseases across Alaska.
• Strengthen partnerships with health care providers, Tribal organizations, and public health leaders.

Skills

Conflict Management

Oral and Written Communication

Managing Performance

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Health Program Manager 3 (Infectious Disease Program Manager, PCN 061500) | Workplace Alaska page has loaded.

This position is open to Alaskan Residents only.

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The Alaska Department of Health is seeking an experienced and visionary Health Program Manager 3 to lead the state’s Infectious Disease Program, which includes tuberculosis, Health Associated Infections (HAI), wastewater surveillance, and other infectious diseases. This is a large, critical public health program that serves to protect the life, health, and safety of Alaskans.

This is a high-impact leadership role overseeing statewide infectious disease strategy, major federal grants, and a diverse portfolio of programs that strive to prevent and control diseases across Alaska.

You’ll guide strategy, ensure federal compliance, and strengthen partnerships with health care providers, Tribal organizations, and public health leaders. If you’re ready to make a measurable impact on the health and safety of Alaskans, this is your opportunity.

Our organization, mission, and culture:

The Section of Epidemiology is driven by a mission to improve the health of all Alaskans through strong, equitable, and evidence-based public health practice. We foster a supportive, collaborative culture that values teamwork, continuous learning, and workforce development so every employee can grow and thrive. Our commitment to service, partnership, and innovation guides us as we work together to protect communities and strengthen Alaska’s public health system.

The benefits of joining our team:

Our team offers the flexibility of possible telework, balanced with purposeful in-office days that strengthen connection and collaboration. You’ll join a positive, supportive group that values growth, shared problem-solving, and celebrating wins together.

The working environment you can expect:

Your new workspace is an office setting in the Frontier Building, boasting stunning views of the Chugach and Alaska Mountain Ranges. Our Midtown location makes it easy to find lunch options, whether you drive, walk, or bike.

The Frontier Building also offers ample free covered parking, on-site vending machines, excellent building security, and a formal walking track on the top floor of the parking garage.

Who we are looking for:

The ideal candidate will possess some or all of the following position-specific competencies in addition to the minimum qualifications listed below:

• Conflict Management: Encourages creative tension and differences of opinions. Anticipates and takes steps to prevent counter-productive confrontations. Manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a constructive manner.
• Oral and Written Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
• Managing Performance: Takes responsibility for employees’ performance by setting and communicating expectations and goals that are specific and measurable, tracking progress against the goals, supporting employees’ efforts to achieve job goals (by providing resources, removing obstacles, acting as a buffer, etc.), ensuring feedback, and addressing performance problems and issues promptly.

Competency-Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions

This job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications. Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with the competencies in

• Program Planning: Ensures state/Tribal/community health improvement planning uses community health assessments and other information related to the health of a community (e.g., current data and trends; proposed federal, state, and local legislation; commitments from organizations to act). Develops program goals and objectives.
• Community Dimensions of Practice: Distinguishes the roles and responsibilities of governmental and non-governmental organizations in providing programs and services to improve the health of a community.
• Partnering: Develops networks and builds alliances; collaborates across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals.
• Public Health: Applies knowledge of the concepts, principles, theories, methods, and tools associated with protecting and improving the health of people and their communities, including promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing, and responding to infectious diseases.
• Human Capital Management: Builds and manages workforce based on organizational goals, budget considerations, and staffing needs. Ensures that employees are appropriately recruited, selected, appraised, and rewarded; takes action to address performance problems. Manages a multi-sector workforce and a variety of work situations.
• Leadership: Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.
• Conflict Management: Encourages creative tension and differences of opinions. Anticipates and takes steps to prevent counter-productive confrontations. Manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a constructive manner.

Equivalent to those typically gained by: A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in biological, health or behavioral science; health practice; education; public, healthcare, or business administration; or a closely related field; AND/OR Progressively responsible professional supervisory or lead level experience performing health program planning, development, coordination, evaluation, or implementation; providing technical health care assistance and consultation; conducting health care utilization or quality assurance examinations; and/or delivering health care service.

Special Note: Agencies employing Health Program Managers are responsible for administering a wide range of medical, behavioral, and social health insurance programs for children and adults. Positions typically focus on a particular health area. Where licensure is required, the job vacancy announcement will identify the type of license necessary to apply for that specific position. The essential functions of some positions may involve exposure to infectious disease and/or biohazards. Travel may be required.

\"Professional experience\" means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment.

\"Progressively responsible\" means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.

Additional Required Information

• Three (3) professional references, whom we may contact by phone, are required. One (1) of these references must be your current or most recent supervisor, if not already provided in the application.
• Current performance evaluation, if available.
• A copy of academic transcripts (unofficial is okay; please ensure that the institution name/URL is listed on the transcripts) is used to support that you meet the minimum qualifications competencies.
• Email or bring a writing sample you authored that demonstrates your ability to communicate complex public health (or similar) information to a non-scientific or scientific audience. Please limit the length of the sample to no more than two pages.

Please read the information below carefully. This applies to your application submission.

CLASSIFICATION

This Position Description is currently being reviewed by the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations, Classification Section. Depending on the allocation outcome, this recruitment pool may or may not be used to fill this vacancy.

EDUCATION

To verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application. (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts). Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not, transcripts will be required before employment.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION

If education is completed in a foreign college or university, it may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable. If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs or an accredited U.S. state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. The omission of the required documentation listed will result in an incomplete application, and you will not receive further consideration.

WORK EXPERIENCE

When using work experience not documented in your application, please provide the employer's name, job title, employment dates, and whether you worked full-time or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and if minimum qualifications are met. Work experience needed to meet the minimum qualifications must be documented in the application. A resume will not be used to determine that minimum qualifications have been met for the position you are applying for.

NOTE: Attaching a resume or curriculum vitae is not an alternative to filling out the application. Noting \"see resume or CV\" or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination that your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting. The State of Alaska does not provide VISA Employer sponsorships.

MULTIPLE VACANCIES

This recruitment may be used for more than one (1) vacancy. The applicant pool acquired during this recruitment may be used for future vacancies for up to ninety (90) days after this recruitment closes. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply to each recruitment notice to ensure consideration for all vacancies.

EEO STATEMENT

The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities who require accommodations, auxiliary aids, or services, or alternative communication formats, please call 1-800-587-4095 in Juneau or TTY: Alaska Relay 711 or 1-800-770-8973 or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at P.O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal-opportunity employer.

Contact Information

For specific information in reference to the position, feel free to contact the hiring manager at:

Sarah Aho / Deputy Section Chief

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