Grants & Support Specialist (Public Health Administrator I) Onsite

Position Description

The Metro Public Health Department (MPHD) is seeking an experienced Grants & Support

Specialist for the department's infrastructure functions; primarily working in grants

administration, but also public health accreditation, and continuous quality improvement.

This position is vital to assuring the department maintains and improves public

health essential services delivered to diverse communities across Nashville and

Davidson County.

The primary functions of this position support the department's achievement of obtaining discretionary grant funding which assists with reaccreditation (five-year cycle) and

continuous quality improvement of processes.

Typical Duties

• Seeks discretionary grant funding specific to departmental needs.

• Assists with grant writing and grant applications preparation and submission.

• Maintains a calendar for grants applications and grant awards.

• Coordinates grants training and scheduling.

• Collaborates with the MPHD finance director, contracts coordinator and finance manager to assure seamless and unduplicated processes.

• Updates grant manual.

• Provides training on MPHD grant processes.

• Coordinates and maintains training calendar to assure all managers have received the national grants management training.

• Serves as a Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) liaison.

• Assist the lead coordinator for the MPHD reaccreditation process.

• Develops and maintains a process to work with the Executive Leadership Team and other staff to identify, collect, record, prepare and upload the PHAB required reaccreditation documentation.

• Provides training on PHAB standards and provides individual coaching as needed.

• Reviews and approves all PHAB documentation.

• Maintains a repository for required accreditation documentation.

• Maintains contact and correspondence with PHAB officer.

Minimum Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited (4) four-year college or university and one (1) year of responsible, full-time employment in public administration, business administration, public health administration, public health, nursing, education, grant administration, or another appropriate field or,
• One (1) year of graduate study in public health administration, public administration, or health education may be substituted for one (1) year of experience or,
• A minimum of seven (7) years of increasingly responsible experience in the areas of public health administration, public administration, public health sanitation, grant administration, or business administration, of which at least one (1) year within the past three (3) years must have been in an administrative or supervisory capacity.

Valid driver's license, use of personal vehicle, and maintenance of valid personal vehicle insurance as required by Tennessee Law.

Candidates with accreditations earned in a foreign institute are encouraged to apply, howeverat the present time MPHD is not sponsoring individuals through any of the US Government's employment-based immigration programs.

MPHD seeks to be a socially and culturally responsive organization that acknowledges and addresses historical and current inequities in our public health promotion and practice. Successful candidates will demonstrate the ability to work with multicultural communities.

Preferred Experience, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Grant procurement, seeking (government and foundations) and grant application processes.

• Familiarity with administrative principles of applying improvement techniques as

• PDSA, root cause analysis, and decision making

• Organizational assurance and accreditation processes.

• Principles and practice of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Antiracism (IDEA).

• Priority setting and organization.

• Written and verbal communication.

• Public speaking and presentations.

• Constructing PowerPoint slides and presentations, Excel spreadsheets; familiarity with Access, REDCap and other desktop packages.

• Teaching and training.

• Flexible.

• Team-oriented.

• Multi-tasking.

• Working with, presenting to and partnering with diverse populations.