The Child Care Health Program (CCHP) in Public Health – Seattle & King County is seeking a 20-hour/week Communications Specialist who has strong communication skills about program progress for those it serves in the child care and early learning communities. The position also requires evaluation, data analysis, and Office 365 skills. A key goal of this position is to evaluate CCHP services to ensure they are improving the well-being of children, families, and child care providers by making sense of service outcomes for both the team and also citizens and community partners. This position, furthermore, seeks someone who is passionate about the well-being of often marginalized young children and the adults who care for them.

The CCHP is striving to elevate its abilities to enhance short- and long-term child well-being in the Seattle area and beyond. This position will assist the CCHP with developing methods of communication, dialogue, and information-gathering for, by, and with the community that can improve practices to boost child health; safety; behavior; social and emotional development; nutrition; physical activity; and other vital child, family, and provider outcomes.
 
Community-informed practices are central to this endeavor, meaning the CCHP is intentional about embracing the needs of diverse and often disenfranchised individuals, populations, languages, cultures, and systems to partner its consultation with their specific needs, perspectives, and orientations to wellness.

This position is posted continuously, first review will occur for applications received through Sunday, May 23rd.

This job advertisement will also be used to fill a Short-Term Temporary position.

Work Location: Remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Typically, in the Chinook Building at 401 5th Avenue, Seattle WA 98104 as well as at various locations throughout the Seattle – King County area.

Work schedule: 40-hours per pay period or 20 hours/week. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required to collect and manage information and to engage with child care providers and colleagues.
 
 Who May Apply: This advertisement is currently open to all qualified candidates.
 
 Contact: If you have questions regarding this job announcement, please contact Erika Yanak, Human Resource Analyst, at Erika.Yanak@kingcounty.gov.

REQUIRED MATERIALS

• King County Online Application.
• Resume
• Cover Letter – outlining how you meet the qualifications for this role.
• Brief descriptions of data assessment and management and communications activities in which you’ve been engaged that are relevant to this position.

• Communicate with CCHP colleagues, families, providers, and community partners about how to assess child, family, and provider outcomes from CCHP interventions.
  • Outcomes may be inclusive of communicable disease prevention, medication management, sanitation and hygiene, nutrition and food safety, reducing challenging behavior, and more.
• Discern reasonable, measurable, and attainable methods to qualitatively and quantitatively assess child, family, provider, and program outcomes from interventions.
• Design and develop specific communications and data tools to conduct efficacious assessments, evaluations, or surveys in ways that don’t induce significant burdens.
• Develop simple, clear, and accessible communications to show providers their progress on health goals for the children in their care. Presentation methods may include:
  • Brief written reports with clear explanations and graphics clarifying outcomes.
  • Virtual and media communications, including social media and videos.
  • Community meetings with consideration for language, culture, and place.
  • Dialogues with the CCHP’s partners, including Seattle’s Dept. of Education and Early Learning, Best Starts for Kids, government agencies, and nonprofits.
• Regularly review information and data collected to make sense of it for and to communicate about improving service outcomes.
• Be guided by the tenet that all CCHP practices are oriented toward equity and justice for the health and well-being of the often-marginalized children and adults it serves.

Among the skills the CCHP is seeking from the Communication Specialist 1 are the following:

• A history of evaluation, measurement, and survey work that embodies data collection, management, and helpful communications to individuals, communities, and programs.

• Facility working with people who are often overburdened; are seeking simple, clear, and accessible guidance on achieving their goals; and benefit and learn from giving and receiving feedback.

• Education, experience, and / or technical skills creating evaluation tools and data processing that inform coherent, useful messaging around performance improvement.

• Excellent communication skills that gain trust with diverse, often disenfranchised people.

• Creative abilities to implement social media, videos, and other communication methods that allow for dialogue with language-, culture-, and place-diverse communities.

• Working knowledge of Office 365 tools, including Forms, Teams, Excel, and more.

• Background in early learning and health- or public-health-related contexts.

• Organizational skills, with a detail orientation and ability to work independently.

• Washington State Driver's License and the ability to travel throughout Seattle and King County (post-COVID) to areas with limited public transportation to provide services.

• Personal drive toward collaboration for inclusion, justice, and dismantling the barriers that advantage and privilege maintain to improve the health and opportunities for children, families, and child providers in underserved communities.

• Ability to learn quickly from colleagues' information that you may not already know and also a willingness to share your relationships and knowledge with the Team to help them in their work in the community.

• Openness to assist with early-child-care systems development in Seattle and King County through dialogue with other health consultants, families, child care providers, Department of Education and Early Learning partners, and others in the community.

• An eagerness to learn about related CCHP topics on which you're not fully grounded.

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• This selection process may include but is not limited to: evaluation of application materials and supplemental questions, testing, and interviewing. For more information on our selection process, please refer to http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/jobs.aspx 
• Public Health relies on office automation (Microsoft Office) and web-based enabled tools. Therefore, candidates must be proficient and comfortable with computer use to perform functions associated with on-going work. 
• Regular and reliable attendance, effective communication skills, and development of effective working relationships are requirements of all Public Health positions. 
• Staff may be required to play a role as a first responder in the event of a Public Health emergency.

• The selected candidate must pass a thorough background investigation. 
• Employees are required to protect the privacy and security of protected health information as defined in State and Federal Law. 
• The Public Health Division limits the use of scented personal products to protect fragrance-sensitive employees. Adherence to this policy is a condition of employment. 
• Employees are required to adhere to OSHA/WISHA guidelines including but not limited to completing their mandatory trainings on time.