Meeker County Public Health, McLeod County Health and Human Services and Sibley County Health, and Human Services employ public health nurses, registered nurses, dietitians, health educators and support and fiscal staff to work in our programs.
Current Job Openings
Community Health Strategist – Full Time
- Maintain accreditation status with the Public Health Accreditation Board.
- Lead and facilitate meetings with agency staff, to analyze process and program performance, identify challenges, and use data to drive decision-making, prioritization, consensus action planning, and evaluation.
- Maintain a performance management and quality improvement system to monitor achievement of organizational objectives.
- Collect, assess, analyze, interpret, and use data from a variety of sources.
- Develop public health project and program messaging appropriate for targeted audiences using social media and other public facing presentations.
- Represent Meeker-McLeod-Sibley Community Health Services on task forces, committees, and work groups as directed by CHS Administrator. This may include participation in strategic and operational planning and promoting public health principles to meet community needs.
- Assist in policy development, implementation, and management for continuous improvement in accordance with Minnesota Statute 145A.
- Participate in organizational capacity building and training activities to advance public health competencies.
- Assist with the organizations opportunities that refine, enhance the diversity, equity, and inclusion of programs and services.
- Work collaborative across the department and the community to build support for and foster a shared understanding of importance of equity to achieve community health and well-being.
- Perform similar duties as assigned.
Find the full job description and application at the link below!
https://www.co.meeker.mn.us/457/Employment-Opportunities
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Career Exploration
Public health is defined as the science of protecting and improving a community’s health by way of preventative medicine, health education, sanitation strategies, monitoring of environmental hazards and the collection and research of disease and injury data to develop strategies for prevention.
There are many paths for those interested in careers in public health. Epidemiology and biostatistics for those interested in working with numbers and data, environmental health for science oriented individuals, health education for those wanting to work in communities to develop strategies for prevention of disease or disaster, health administration for the business, finance and management interest, and health policy for those that are legally inclined and desiring to create public health policy.