Health Program Manager 3 (Infectious Disease Program Manager, PCN 061500)

State of Alaska; Anchorage (AK); Hybride; USD 100 000 - 160 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Possible telework

Free covered parking

Résumé du poste

The State of Alaska seeks a Health Program Manager 3 to lead the Infectious Disease Program in Anchorage, guiding statewide strategy and ensuring compliance with federal grants. You will manage a diverse portfolio of infectious disease initiatives and collaborate with health care providers, Tribal organizations, and public health leaders to protect Alaska communities.

This is a senior public health leadership role focused on program development, policy implementation, and strategic partnerships,

Qualifications

• Program Planning: ensures health improvement planning uses assessments and data; develops goals and objectives.
• Community Dimensions of Practice: clarifies roles of governmental/non-governmental orgs.
• Partnering: builds alliances across boundaries to achieve goals.
• Public Health: applies concepts to protect and improve health and prevent disease.
• Human Capital Management: recruits, evaluates, and supports a multi-sector workforce.
• Leadership: influences and motivates; adapts styles to situations.
• Conflict Management: manages conflicts constructively and prevents counter-productive confrontations.

Responsabilités

• Lead statewide infectious disease strategy and overall program portfolio across Alaska.
• Oversee major federal grants; ensure compliance and performance reporting.
• Strengthen partnerships with health care providers, Tribal organizations, and public health leaders.

Connaissances

Program Planning

Community Dimensions of Practice

Partnering

Public Health

Human Capital Management

Leadership

Conflict Management

Formation

Bachelor's degree

Description du poste

Health Program Manager 3 (Infectious Disease Program Manager, PCN 061500) in Anchorage, AK

This position is open to Alaskan Residents only.

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 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.

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.

Who we are looking for:

• 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

These are the minimum required competencies for the position

• 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.

EEO STATEMENT

The State of Alaska is an equal-opportunity employer. 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.

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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