Bureau Chief of Maternal, Child, and Family Health

Schedule: Full-time

What You'll Do:

This is a great opportunity to make a real contribution in ensuring an organized effort to eliminate health disparities, improve birth outcomes and improve the health status of women, infants, children, youth and families in Ohio. If you are a dynamic and experienced leader who is passionate about our mission to protect and improve the health of Ohioans, we want you to join our team! You will act as bureau chief for the Bureau of Maternal, Child and Family Health:

Formulate and direct implementation of policies, procedures, goals and objectives for multiple statewide programs designed to provide public health services for mothers and children.

Review and analyze state and federal rules, laws and regulations for the purpose of policy development and implementation.

Direct development of bureau components of state plan to improve health status and health service indicators for mothers and children.

Formulate options for implementation of program policies to assure bureau is meeting its goals.

Coordinate throughout the agency to conduct program evaluation activities (e.g., program effectiveness, adequacy of technical assistance to local health agencies, policy consistency)

Direct development of clinical standards of care, state guidelines for services.

6 yrs. exp. in planning & administering health program(s).

-Or completion of graduate core program in field of public health, health administration, preventive medicine, social work, nursing or other health-related field or public policy & management/public administration or business administration AND 3 yrs. exp. in planning & administering health program(s).

-Or 12 mos. exp. as Health Planning Administrator 3, 65247.

-Or 2 yrs. exp. as Health Planning Administrator 2, 65246. Note: applicants for any bureau chief position in Ohio Department of Health must satisfy qualifications cited in Chapter 37 of Administrative Code for particular bureau for which application is being made.

-Or equivalent of Minimum Class Qualifications for Employment noted above

Job Skills: Public Health

Technical: Planning and Development, Management, Public Health

Professional: Building Consensus, Continuous Improvement, Leading Others