Senior Manager position at Beach Cities Health District, CA

Beach Cities Health District is committed to promoting the health and well-being of the beach cities community, and BCHD employees are expected to lead by example through their participation in programs and processes promoting workplace health and a safe and productive work environment. BCHD offers outstanding benefits, and is an equal opportunity employer.

General Purpose
Under the direction of the Chief Medical Officer, Youth Services Sr. Manager measurably improves the health and well-being of beach cities children by providing strategic direction, management and evaluation for all BCHD youth-related programs and services. In accordance with public health practice standards, guides youth-related programs and services to address ongoing and emerging health needs of the youth population.

Essential Functions
 The duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed.  The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the job.

1. Provides leadership for Youth Services department based upon strategic direction, vision and mission of BCHD; participates in development of and planning to Community Health Snapshot; champions and integrates population-based community well-being approach into all aspects of program and service delivery; aligns with industry advances in education and technology (e.g., coordinated school health; e-based learning, educational leadership).

2. Ensure organizational practices are in concert with changes in the educational and public health sectors, and the larger social, political, and economic environment; develops and implements long- and short-range plans to achieve stated objectives.

3. Develops, supervises and manages all existing projects and programs within department; ensures the measuring, reporting and continuous improvement of organizational performance.
4. Builds and maintains strong, productive relationships with key District staff and all principals in the RBUSD, MBUSD, and HBCSD school districts.

5. Serve as subject-matter expert for BCHD and school districts; applies the basic public health sciences (including, but not limited to biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental health sciences, health services administration, and social and behavioral health sciences) to programs; integrates scientific evidence into the delivery of programs and services.

Education/Training:
Bachelor degree in public health, education, or health-related field. Master’s degree (e.g., M.A., M.S., MPH, M.S.Ed) with major study in nutrition, health or education preferred.  Will consider relevant work experience in lieu of formal education.

Experience:
Minimum five years of experience in school-based nutrition and/or physical education. Minimum three years of project management experience with successful experience in program development, implementation, monitoring evaluation and continuous quality improvement. Minimum three years of experience supervising staff.

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