Health Program Manager 3 (WIC Program Manager-PCN 061103)

State of Alaska; Juneau, Anchorage, Fairbanks (AK, AK, AK); On-site; USD 94,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid telework option

11 paid holidays

Paid leave

Retirement options

Health, vision, and dental insurance

Job summary

State of Alaska, Division of Public Health, seeks a Health Program Manager 3 (WIC Program Manager) to lead regional WIC services in Alaska. The position requires a Registered Dietitian and oversees teams across Juneau, Anchorage, or Fairbanks, coordinating outreach and ensuring high-quality nutrition services.

You will work with local teams, grantees, and vendors to improve health outcomes for women, infants, and children while advancing culturally responsive approaches and program compliance

Qualifications

• Program Planning: Uses community health assessments and data to set goals and objectives.
• Community Dimensions of Practice: Defines roles of governmental and nongovernmental orgs.
• Partnering: Builds networks across boundaries to achieve goals.
• Public Health: Applies core public health concepts to protect health and promote healthy lifestyles.
• Human Capital Management: Recruits, develops, and rewards staff; manages a multi-sector workforce.
• Leadership: Influences, motivates, and adapts leadership style.
• Conflict Management: Manages disagreements constructively.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional WIC staff and coordinate outreach through Public Health Centers.
• Collaborate with local teams, grantees, and vendors to deliver nutrition services, education, and referrals.
• Shape regional program operations and support culturally responsive, equitable services for Alaska families.
• Support program compliance and strengthen health outcomes across Alaska.

Skills

Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving

Decision Making

Program Oversight

Education

Registered Dietitian (RD) licensure

Job description

Health Program Manager 3 (WIC Program Manager-PCN 061103)

Position in Juneau, Anchorage, or Fairbanks, Alaska. This listing is open to Alaskan Residents only.

This position requires that the selected candidate be a Registered Dietitian.

What you will be doing

The WIC Program Manager role offers an experienced public health nutrition professional the opportunity to lead and strengthen WIC services across Alaska. In this role, you will lead regional WIC staff, coordinate outreach through Public Health Centers, and work closely with local teams, grantees, and vendors to ensure women, infants, and children receive high-quality nutrition services, education, supplemental foods, and healthcare referrals.

You will have the opportunity to shape regional program operations, build strong community partnerships, and support culturally responsive and equitable services for families throughout Alaska. As part of Alaska’s statewide WIC program, you will combine your leadership and public health expertise to support program compliance while making a meaningful difference in the health and well-being of Alaska’s families.

Our organization, mission, and culture

The Division of Public Health is the state’s lead public health agency focused on the services that protect the public’s health and advance the health status of all Alaskans and communities by preventing illness and injury.

WIC is a public health program that provides nutrition and breastfeeding education, counseling, support, referrals to needed services, and nutritious food to eligible women, infants, and children up to age five.

We embrace the values of excellence, innovation, continuous improvement, integrity, and inclusiveness.

In your role, you will positively impact families’ food security across Alaska.

The benefits of joining our team

We are committed to employee health and well-being, offering opportunities for professional growth and development, self-care, and a supportive, collegial work environment with job stability and security.

Additional benefits include:

• Option for hybrid telework, if desired
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid leave
• Retirement options
• Insurance (health, vision, and dental)

The working environment you can expect

This position is located either in the Fairbanks Public Health Center, the Juneau Public Health Center, or in the heart of Anchorage, in the Frontier Building in mid-town Anchorage.

We are a close-knit, fun team dedicated to supporting health access and equity, with a passion for improving the lives of families, women, infants, children, and adolescents. The Division of Public Health has a long history of collaborating with health care providers, non-profits, educators, and families to improve maternal, newborn, and early childhood health outcomes.

Who we are looking for

• Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: Uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one’s knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
• Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
• Program Oversight: Plans, coordinates, and monitors programs to ensure that federal, state, and/or local government program requirements and plans are met, providing professional consultation on the specialized services of the program or associated project(s).

Minimum Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Pay / Salary

• Anchorage: $3,623.20/Biweekly
• Fairbanks: $3,732.00/Biweekly
• Juneau: $3,804.00/Biweekly

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

Name/Title: Carol Quintanilla/ Program Coordinator 2

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