EMPLOYMENT
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CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND ENGAGEMENT
Position Overview:
The Director of Marketing and Engagement is responsible for developing and executing strategic marketing and engagement initiatives to enhance the visibility, reputation, and impact of Healthy Start, Inc. This role involves creating and implementing comprehensive marketing strategies, overseeing communication efforts, and driving engagement with key stakeholders including donors, volunteers, program participants and the community. The Director of Marketing and Engagement must have a strong commitment to health equity and to developing a deep understanding of maternal and child health, public health concepts and health disparities.
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2024 STRATEGIC PLANNING REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP)
PROPOSALS DUE SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Position Overview:
PURPOSE
Healthy Start, Inc. Pittsburgh (HS) has initiated a Request for Proposal (RFP) process to identify a qualified consultant or consultant team to guide and execute a 3 to 4-year comprehensive strategic planning process for the organization.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO RESPOND
HS seeks a single consultant, a consultant group, or a partnership of consultants with demonstrated experience in successfully developing strategic plans and organizational change management processes, that has strong facilitation skills, has proven experience with non-profit strategic planning, and a strong understanding of the local/regional/national context of maternal and child health, health equity and health disparities. Additional consideration will be given to consultants who have demonstrated lived experience with our participant population and a deep knowledge and understanding of the historical context of medicine, research and maternal and child health for Black women and families. An emphasis on and experience in engagement with community-centered and community engaged practices is highly preferred.
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HEALTHY START CENTER FOR URBAN BREASTFEEDING (HSCUB)
PROGRAM ASSISTANT (Full-time)
Position Overview:
We are seeking a passionate, energetic, reliable, and responsible candidate, with particular interest in breastfeeding to support our Healthy Start Center for Urban Breastfeeding (HSCUB). As part of the Healthy Start, Inc., multidisciplinary team, the HSCUB program assistant will be expected to provide support—and could potentially be the first point of contact—for families interested and/or enrolled in our program.
This public health position supports programming and initiatives that contribute to the HSCUB which may include managing responsibilities such as maintaining program service records, strengthening community and online presence, managing data collection and analysis, developing communication materials, completing participant intakes, conducting home visits, providing instruction and other related tasks.
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PROJECT MANAGER- EMBRACE CENTER COMMUNITY COMPONENT
Position Overview:
The Project Manager will support multiple public health-focused projects across the organization. One primary project, EMBRACE, is a NIH-funded maternal health research Center of Excellence.
The project manager will support this initiative by employing project management skill and expertise to coordinate daily and routine activities of the project’s “Community Component” to ensure that the project is progressing and meeting benchmarks, collaboration to ensure training and support for Healthy Start’s Community Health Advocates and their integration into the Center projects and components, coordinating other routine meetings and convenings, leading coordination of the EMBRACE annual summit in alignment with the Healthy Start symposium, and supporting the evolution of the Community Health Advocate program as an evidence-informed model for developing people with lived experience into results-oriented and justice-focused MCH change agents.
The Project Manager must be able to work effectively as part of a team, develop a strong understanding of Healthy Start’s program/service continuum, manage and nurture relationships across multiple stakeholder groups, and have a passion for maternal and child health and health equity—supporting Healthy Start’s unique contributions to the field of maternal and child health, eradicating disparities faced by members of the Black community. The Project Manager will also maintain a portfolio of additional projects as they emerge.
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COMMUNITY PROJECT MANAGER
Position Overview:
The Community Project Manager will be responsible for planning and executing community engagement efforts for Healthy Babies Zone/Best Babies Zone Project in Wilkinsburg, PA, the Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) Community Action Team (CAT) and other emerging community health initiatives.
The Healthy Babies Zone Wilkinsburg (HBZ) project was modeled after the Best Babies Zone (BBZ) framework to establish a community structure that ensures babies are born into a community that will enable them to thrive and reach their full potential. The BBZ initiative was created to address perinatal health outcomes by focusing efforts on the social and economic determinants of health and the promotion of health equity and their impact on health outcomes. The Community Project Manager primarily oversees the HBZ community stakeholder group facilitation, community program development, community partner relationship building, and represents the program by leading projects such as the Wilkinsburg Walking Path, the Breastfeeding Family Friendly Community Designation and doula expansion into the Wilkinsburg community.
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CONTROLLER
Position Overview:
Position Overview: The Controller serves as a key business partner and supports the mission and operations of Healthy Start, Inc. (HS) by ensuring all daily and routine financial accounting activity is performed and reported in a timely, accurate manner. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining efficient processes as they relate to all aspects of the organization’s financial systems. This role will oversee a team of up to three employees; work collaboratively with the CEO, directors and other HS team members; and works under the direction of the CFO.
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FAMILY COACH
Position Overview:
This is a community-based home visiting social work position contributing to the successful delivery of services and supports for families of newborns in Allegheny County who have complex needs. As a member of the Hello Baby team at Healthy Start, the Social Worker will exhibit expertise in high quality service offerings and will focus on connecting families to services and ongoing follow up with providers through care management (screening, assessment, goal planning, referral and follow up) to enrolled families using the Camden Coalition COACH model. COACH is a five-part framework that trains staff to be empowerment coaches in order to problem-solve with families to determine how to support them in reaching their goals.
The COACH model focuses on Empowerment Theory, Unconditional Positive Regard and Transtheoretical Theory (Stages of Change). The successful Social Worker is passionate, knowledgeable of family systems, aware of community resources, is empathetic, is flexible and thinks outside the box, has excellent written and verbal communication skills and embodies the project’s core principles of community engagement, authentic healing relationships, family and child well-being, equity and respect. The Social Worker works in community with the Family Engagement Specialist and is a member of the Hello Baby multidisciplinary team. Social work experience is required; home visiting experience is highly preferred.
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STAFF ACCOUNTANT
Position Overview:
This position is responsible for maintaining specific accounting processes and records of the organization and assisting the accounting department with various related tasks. This position serves all areas of the organization.