HIV​/STD Director - Public Health

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HIV/STD Director - Public Health

“Follow Your Calling, Find Your Career”
Salary Range: $- $
This is an exempt (salary) position
Pay rates are based on education, skill, experience level and internal equity. Internal equity considerations include an assessment of the applicant’s salary history and qualifications in comparison to the market rate and requirements for the job.
This role is on-site 5 days a week

At Mecklenburg County, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are with support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. We’re counting on YOUR unique voice and perspective to help Mecklenburg County Public Health become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a healthier world for all.

As a member of the Mecklenburg County Public Health team, you will become a subject matter expert in the public health field. The CDC foundation explains that “Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. This work is achieved by promoting health lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, detecting, preventing, and responding to infectious disease”.

Come be a part of Mecklenburg County’s Public Health department’s vision to “assure the health and safety of our diverse and changing community today and for future generations.”

Directs, manages, supervises, and coordinates program development, fiscal management, and grants management activities of Mecklenburg County Public Health’s HIV/STD Programs. Programs that includes HIV/STD Prevention & Education, Investigations & Surveillance, Ryan White Services and Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiatives. Collaborates and builds relationships with community partners to enhance Community Engagement activities around HIV/STD Prevention efforts. Recommends new services and programs through contracts with community partners.

Aligns the strategic goals of the programs with those of the Public Health Department and the County, implementing strategies to achieve these goals, assuring compliance with state and federal requirements

• Provide oversight for all services and activities of the HIV/STD Division throughout the County.
• Manage and participate in the development and implementation of goals, objectives, policies, grants, budgets, and HIV/STD priorities.
• Continuously monitor and evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery methods and procedures; assess and monitor internal reporting relationships; identify opportunities for improvement and review with the Assistant Health Director of Preventive Health.
• Supervise senior health program leadership personnel.
• Manage and participate in the development and administration of the HIV/STD Programs annual budgets; forecasts funds needed for staffing, equipment, materials, and supplies; may direct the monitoring of and approval of expenditures; implements budget adjustments as necessary.
• Conduct a variety of organizational and operational studies/investigations; supervise preparation of required statistical reports; recommend modifications to programs, policies, protocols and procedures as appropriate.
• Chair or serve on committees, special project teams, or task forces as may be required or assigned.
• Research and identify community health needs, recommend strategies, coordinate and evaluate programs that identify and prevent the spread of communicable diseases in the community by translating behavioral change research and theory into practice.
• Analyze epidemiological communicable disease data, interprets the results to identify HIV/STD patterns in the community; develops control, intervention and prevention strategies.
• Oversee the design and evaluation of protocols, data collection instruments and data management tools for use in conducting communicable disease epidemiologic investigations and disease surveillance.
• Respond in writing and in person to media inquiries regarding HIV/STD matters; prepare and present presentations around HIV/STD as requested or required.
• Respond in cases of urgent and/or emergent events that require…