Full-time position available with the Health Department, Behavioral Health & Injury Prevention Division located at 2400 Troost Ave
Salary Range: $5,173-$7,759/month
Normal Work Days/Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5: 00 p.m. *Occasionallty works on call hours, weekends, and evenings
Application Deadline Date: August 30, 2024
Responsibilities
This is a professional, highly complex and responsible administrative position tasked with ensuring the efficient daily operation of the Aim4Peace Program, funding oversight and grant management within the program.
- Facilitates program management by attending to a variety of highly complex and difficult administrative work.
- Supervises assigned staff and for coordinating all assigned projects, promotions, and grant required deliverables including operations analysis, budget, personnel matters, and operating rules and regulations.
- Uses considerable initiative and independent judgement.
- Assists in the administration of divisional/Department operations.
- Acts as divisional representative and interdepartmental liaison to collaborate, organize, and disseminate requested program information to the community as requested.
- Performs a variety of tasks involving liaison with other programs and Departments, agencies, and groups.
- Represents the Department in meetings and conferences involving city officials, public and private groups.
- Assists the Community & Family Health Education Division Manager with the supervision of highly complex operations as assigned.
- Schedules, organizes, attends, facilitates and/or represents the Kansas City Health Department (Department) at health fairs within the greater Kansas City area.
- Acts as a liaison between members of the community and the Department.
- Works with community, faith-based, residential, and non-profit organizations, schools, hospitals, and businesses to create, develop and maintain working relationships with the Health Department.
- Connects and coordinates with hospitals and first responders to organize and strategically deploy personnel in accordance with the violence interruption model.
- Organizes and facilitates violence reduction education and related trainings/meetings for Health Department personnel, City personnel, schools, community organizations and members of the general public.
- Assists the Division Manager in the administration of the Division.
- Participates in and supervises the performance of routine operational tasks.
- Suggests, for the benefit of general policy changes, those operational defects which should be remedied.
- Performs related duties as required.
- Organizes, allocates, and maintains the documentation of the Division and various programs within the Division.
- Makes significant decisions and exercise resourcefulness in meeting and solving problems.
- Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with employees, municipal officials, community organizations and the general public.
- Utilizes human resources effectively.
- Functions as a constructive resource.
- Prepares, analyzes, and interprets accurate and complex reports.
Qualifications
REQUIRES an accredited Bachelor's degree and 6 (OR an accredited Master's degree and 4) years of experience in private, public, or community healthcare, community sanitation, health inspections, health education, data analysis, or related healthcare fields; OR a High School Diploma and ten (10) years of experience in private, public, or community healthcare, community sanitation, health inspections, health education, data analysis, or related healthcare fields. Must possess a valid state-issued driver's license in accordance with City of KCMO policies. Must pass a pre-employment drug screen and post-offer physical examination as prescribed by the City.
Other Information
URGENT!!! CRITICAL RECRUITMENT INFORMATION Applications and/or resumes are evaluated on the information received by the application deadline. Please ensure that your application or resume clearly demonstrates how you meet the minimum qualifications for the position for which you are applying, this includes providing all relevant educational dates and a detailed description of relevant work experience, including months/years of employment. Applications and/or resumes may not be considered if information is incomplete.
In order for a resume to be used in lieu of an application the resume must have been submitted online via the City's Applicant Tracking System.
Positions requiring a high school diploma/GED certificate must be obtained from a school/program accredited by the Department of Education and recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education.
The minimum education requirement for positions that allow for experience equivalency for an accredited degree is a high school diploma. Unless otherwise specified, an accredited degree must be obtained from a college or university listed with the U.S. Department of Education and recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education.
For positions with a salary grade of EX6 or higher that require an accredited degree, qualifying professional experience must be obtained AFTER the accredited degree is obtained.
Successful completion of a pre-employment criminal history/background check is required for all positions. Some positions require a post offer drug screen and/or physical.
If appointed, non-residents must obtain residency inside Kansas City, Missouri's city limits within nine months.
The City of KCMO is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion in the workplace. The City is committed to providing a workplace environment for its employees and citizens free from discrimination based on race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, religion, age, disability, marital status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender identity. For more information, please see our
EEO Policy The City of KCMO is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please call 816-513-1908 or send an e-mail to
accommodations@kcmo.org .
If claiming military veterans' preference points, you must attach a copy of your DD-214 or a DD-256 (for reservists). To claim veterans' points you must have served 180 days of regular active duty service and be discharged or released under honorable conditions during peacetimes or 90 days of active duty service, one (1) day during "wartime" and a last discharge or release under honorable conditions.
(DOD) 38 U.S. Code • 4211). 
