Program Coordinator 2 (Data Modernization Program Coordinator 2)

Health; Anchorage (AK); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid telework

Health, vision & dental insurance

Paid holidays & leave

Job summary

The Department of Health in Alaska seeks a Data Modernization Program Coordinator 2 to advance statewide data modernization efforts and strengthen public health systems. This role works with the Data Modernization Director and public health professionals to coordinate projects, manage federal grants, and partner with stakeholders to meet program goals.

Strong communication, organizational, and analytical skills are essential to streamline processes, monitor progress, and ensure successful

Qualifications

• Competencies define essential KSAs for the job class.
• Experience with planning, coordinating, and implementing programs.
• Minimum competencies demonstrated through work history, training, or education.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate projects and manage federal grants and budgets.
• Collaborate with partners to support program goals.
• Streamline processes and monitor progress for project implementation.

Skills

Grants Management

Analytical Thinking

Planning and Evaluating

Decision Making

Compliance

Organizational Awareness

Writing

Job description

Job Description

Welcome to the Department of Health!

We’d be delighted to have you join our team.

This position is open to Alaskan Residents only.

Please check out the residency definition to determine if you qualify.

What you will be doing:

As the Data Modernization Program Coordinator 2 with the Division of Public Health, you’ll play an important role in advancing statewide data modernization initiatives and strengthening Alaska’s public health systems. Working alongside the Data Modernization Director and public health professionals, you’ll coordinate projects, manage federal grants and budgets, and collaborate with partners to support program goals. You’ll use your communication, organizational, and analytical skills to streamline processes, monitor progress, and ensure successful project implementation. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to innovative solutions that improve public health services and make a meaningful difference for Alaskans.

Our organization, mission, and culture:

The Division of Public Health’s mission is to protect and promote the health of Alaskans. As a member of our team, you will contribute every day to the improvement of the health of Alaskans and their families. The Division of Public Health exemplifies these values:

Service

• - Demonstrate commitment to public health through compassionate action and stewardship of time, resources, and talent.

Health Equity

• - Ensure that all Alaskans have full and equal access to opportunities to lead healthy lives.

Integrity

• - Exemplify uncompromising ethical conduct and the highest standards of responsibility and accountability.

Excellence

• - Use the best available knowledge, expertise, and data to inform public health policies and practices.

Leadership

• -Provide public health vision, purpose, and strategies to improve the health of Alaskans.

Dedication

• - Continuously and enthusiastically work to achieve the best health for Alaskans and their communities

The benefits of joining our team:

In this permanent position, you’ll enjoy paid holidays, paid leave, and comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance. Our flexible schedules, including hybrid telework options, empower you to leverage your professional talents in meaningful ways to impact public health. If you thrive on quality, take pride in your work, and excel under pressure, we’d love to have you on our team!

The working environment you can expect:

Anchorage Regional Office: Conveniently located in Midtown Anchorage and within walking distance of Cuddy Family Park, Loussac Library, and Natural Pantry. Ample parking is available at this location with a short interior walkway to the offices.

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:

Grants Management

• : Knowledge of requirements, practices, and procedures for soliciting, receiving, reviewing, and processing proposals, and awarding and administering grants and agreements.

Manages and Organizes Information

• : Identifies a need; gathers, organizes, and maintains information; determines its importance and accuracy, and communicates it by a variety of methods.

Writing

• : Recognizes or uses correct English grammar, punctuation, and spelling; communicates information (for example, facts, ideas, or messages) in a succinct and organized manner; produces written information, which may include technical material, that is appropriate for the intended audience

To view the general description and example of duties for this job class, please go to the following link and search for

Program Coordinator 2

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/classspecs

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Minimum Qualifications

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.

Competency Description

The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations rather than specific tasks and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

Please ensure your application (through work history, training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports/demonstrates that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

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

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.

Compliance

• : Knowledge of procedures for assessing, evaluating, and monitoring programs or projects for compliance with Federal laws, regulations, and guidance.

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.

Planning and Evaluating

• : Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinates with other organizations or parts of the organization to accomplish goals; monitors progress and evaluates outcomes.

Organizational Awareness

• : Knows the organization's mission and functions, and how its social, political, and technological systems work and operates effectively within them; this includes the programs, policies, procedures, rules, and regulations of the organization.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Training from an accredited college or university in any field and/or progressively responsible professional experience developing, planning, coordinating, and implementing a program, project, business, organization, or major components of a program, including having administrative authority over the program/project funding, staff, and/or overall operations.

Special Note

“Competencies” means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.

“Typically gained by” means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

“Training” and “education” are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post‑secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.

“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.