Program Specialist - Dartmouth, Canada - Nova Scotia Health Authority
Description
Req ID:163896**
Company: Nova Scotia Health
Location:
Eastern
Zone, All Locations**
Department:PH SSP Early Years**
Type of Employment:Permanent
Hourly FT
(100%
FTE) x 1
position(s)
**Status: NSGEU
Admin Professionals
- Position
Posting Closing Date:7-Dec-23Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We're on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators and creative thinkers today.
About the Opportunity:
The Specialist provides leadership and advanced knowledge in population health and healthy development to reduce health inequities and address the determinants of health.
The Program Specialist is responsible for:
- Providing expert level advice, evidence and best practice on advancing the understanding of early years work
- Coordinating projects, initiatives and teams working on a specific content issue
- Contributing to knowledge translation by retrieving, assessing and synthesizing complex research findings
- Collaboratively developing tools, indicators and measures to enable an understanding of early years work and how it translates related to a specific issue
About You:
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:
- Masters in public health, health related or other relevant field with 3 years relevant experience
- Baccalaureate degree in a healthrelated field or other relevant field with 5 years relevant experience
- Knowledge of and experience in early years population and programming
- Knowledge of and experience in media advocacy and communications
- Knowledge of and experience in oppression as a social determinant of health, awareness, and study of one's own power and privilege and, appropriate public health approaches to reduce health inequities
- Knowledge of and experience working with evidenceinformeddecision making tools and practices, conduction rapid evidence reviews and producing evidence briefs
- Knowledge of and experience in innovative systems thinking with an understanding of working with communities and community base organizations
- Knowledge of and experience in interacting with municipal units, communities and community leadership within zones
- Knowledge and experience with community development and mobilization
Hours:
- Permanent fulltime position; 70 hours biweekly
Compensation and Incentives:
$ $42.58 hourly
Once You've Applied
Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
This is a Admin Professionals bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile.
Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.
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