Community Outreach Specialist Apply
Background:
The Maternal and Child Health Division's (MCH) Community Engagement and Systems Building team serves to connect families, organizations, and providers locally and statewide. This mission is accomplished by building and strengthening systems that serve Hoosiers throughout their lifespan.
Current initiatives include:
My Healthy Baby, a system that identifies women early in their pregnancies and connects them with an OB navigator a home visitor who provides personalized guidance and support to women during pregnancy and at least the first 6 to 12 months after the baby's birth.
The MOMS Helpline, a program that helps reduce Indiana's infant mortality rate with dedicated communication specialists that provide valuable pregnancy information, referrals, and accessible resources to pregnant women and families with babies.
Help Me Grow is a system model that works to promote cross-sector collaboration in order to build efficient and effective early childhood systems that mitigate the impact of adversity and support protective factors among families, so that all children can grow, develop, and thrive to their full potential.
MCH seeks to grow its reach of these initiatives across the state and be more fully connected to families, providers, and social service organizations.
Purpose of Position/Summary:
The purpose of this position is to represent the Maternal and Child Health Division's (MCH) Systems Building and Community Engagement Team (SBCE) in the community, to build relationships with a wide variety of local and state-wide partners, and to promote MCH projects and programs. Specifically, this position will focus on serving as the liaison between the community, families and the MCH system.
The Outreach and Education Specialist will support the awareness and visibility of My Healthy Baby (MHB), MOMS Helpline (MHL), and Help Me Grow (HMG) to the state. This position will fulfill this purpose by (1) representing MCH at numerous community events and meetings (2) engaging providers and families in the MCH system and (3) providing information, support, and connections to training opportunities to professionals statewide.
Essential Duites/Responsibilities:
Be knowledgeable of community service programs and resources, behavioral health care, specialized children services, and education/training opportunities.
Events:
Seek and identify resource events, conferences in which all three systems will benefit from exhibiting.
Assist in maintaining an updated spreadsheet of all distributed promotional items
Marketing
Research and recommend ideas for any marketing initiatives.
Assist with the development of creative program material (i.e. promotional items).
Help coordinate all the artwork and creative process from the design phase to print phase.
Collaborative with Office of Public Affairs (OPA) to maintain a positive rapport regarding feedback and suggestions about the artwork and design process.
Job Requirements:
Difficulty of Work:
This position requires significant attention to detail, the ability to work with internal and external partners, knowledge of MOMS Helpline, Help Me Grow, and My Healthy Baby performance objectives and interpretation of those objectives within a life course framework. The Outreach and Education Specialist must also be able to resolve problems, logically develop ideas, interpret policy, and have superb oral and written communication skills.
Personal Work Relationships:
The Outreach and Education Specialist maintains cooperative relationships with internal and external partners for daily problem solving and interpretation of regulations and policies; and must have the ability to work with a diverse group of employees, not only in function, but also in skill level.
Physical Effort:
Position requires the ability to sit for long periods and extensive use of computers. Travel is requried to all community events and agency quarterly meetings. Some heavy lifting required when setting up and breaking down for exhibitions/events.
