Project Coordinator - Wright County

Position Summary:

The public health system has gone above and beyond to support the health and safety of our communities over the past few years. As health needs continue to grow and evolve, there’s never been a more important time to support the health and wellness of our communities. Take action and help meet urgent public health needs while launching your career in public health. By offering your time and talent as a Public Health Project Coordinator, you can help the public health system to deliver critical services in your community. Public Health Corps provides you with valuable, hands-on experience in public health, plus career coaching and support from public health experts. You provide the skills, dedication and time that our communities need.

What to Expect:

Help facilitate research, data collection and survey administration.

Engage community members in focus groups and public health conversations.

Advance health and racial equity initiatives.

Support public health education campaigns.

Participate in ongoing training and professional development.

Gain hands-on experience in public health while embedded in a governmental public health agency.

Share your experience with the wider community as a Public Health Corps ambassador.

Location Specific Activities:

work on health promotion and protection programs that relate to substance use prevention, mental wellbeing, and dental health

work to identify critical needs around policy development, communications, community partnership building and data analysis

work with senior health committee on projects related to falls and senior health

support program outreach

Perks Package:

Serve as a Public Health Project Coordinator and receive a scalable perks package based on your time commitment of 40 or 25 hours per week.

The Segal AmeriCorps Education Award can be used to pay tuition or repay qualified student loans. Individuals 55+ at the start of their service term may gift their award to their child, grandchild, foster child or stepchild.

What it Takes:

Our Project Coordinators come from all walks of life. The most important qualification is a passion to take action for your community – and meet the following minimum qualifications. By the time they begin their service, our Project

Coordinators are:

Dependable and have a history of good attendance

Able to manage projects

Able to set a pace and maintain a service schedule of 40 or 25 hours per week, depending on the agreed upon hours commitment

Comfortable using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel); competent completing internet searches and navigating resources online; and have experience with using e-mail regularly

Fluent in English

About our Organization:

Public Health Corps is powered by AmeriCorps members who are on a mission to meet urgent public health needs. The program launched in 2022 and is administered by City of Rockford Minnesota as part of our healthy futures program offerings.

City of Rockford Minnesota is a national organization that demonstrates the power of national service to solve complex social problems by creating innovative programs that focus on the key areas of education, environmental stewardship, and healthy futures for communities. These programs include Reading Corps, Math Corps, Early Learning Corps, Climate Impact Corps, Heading Home Corps, Language Corps, Public Health Corps, Recovery Corps and Resettlement Corps.

City of Rockford Minnesota will not discriminate for or against any AmeriCorps service member or applicant on the basis of race, color, creed, national origin, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity or expression, political affiliation, marital or parental status, familial status, military service, or any other category protected by law. Reasonable accommodations provided upon request.