Project/Program Manager III - 6 positions
- Summary
Public Health – Seattle & King County is seeking to fill six Project/Program Manager III (PPM III) positions to support the Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Immunization Section (CD-Imms). Three of the positions are Career Service and three of the positions are Term-Limited Temporary/Special Duty. We may hire up to an additional 12 TLT/SD PPM III positions to support investigations within the next 4 months from this posting.
Positions are responsible for a broad range of activities, including ensuring the timeliness and quality of communicable disease investigation and response activities; developing and updating protocols for disease investigation, outbreak management, data collection, and entry of data into surveillance databases; quality improvement efforts; supervision of multidisciplinary staff; training, and development of investigation staff; managing internal and external communications related to disease investigation and control; identifying funding opportunities and providing grant oversight; and administrative duties as assigned.
These Program Leads will be Subject Matter Experts (SME) for their assigned focus area and as needed will provide oversight and backup coverage to other Program Leads on all communicable disease investigation, response, and training activities (including vaccine preventable diseases, foodborne and enteric diseases, viral hepatitis, zoonotics, COVID-19, emerging infectious diseases, and healthcare associated infections). With the exception of the Training PPM III, these positions will also participate in after-hours (evening, night, weekend, and holiday) on-call coverage (approximately 6 to 8 weeks per year).
These positions report to the managers within CD-Imms [Project/Program Manager IV (PPM IV) and Health Services Administrator I (HSA I)] and all work collaboratively with the Section’s other Program Leads, Program Managers, Medical Epidemiologists, Analytics and Informatics Team, Immunization Team, and Administration Team.
Current positions available (6):- Training PPM III Lead/SME (1 position, Career Service): This position will be responsible for the development and implementation of training for staff in the Section across all teams, to support and enhance timeliness and quality of communicable disease investigation and response activities. This Program Lead will supervise staff and is responsible for ensuring staff receive appropriate onboarding at time of hire, creating inventories of workforce competencies across teams and job classifications, identifying training gaps, coordinating the development of training materials, organizing and maintaining training resources, and coordinating the provision of training.
- General Investigations PPM III Lead/SME (1 position, Career Service): This is a new position that will be responsible for staff supervision, training, directing and overseeing surveillance, case and outbreak investigations, response and prevention activities, and relevant grant activities. This Program Lead will have primary responsibility for day-to-day operations, including management of routine investigations across all diseases, and is responsible for ensuring the timeliness and quality of communicable disease investigation and response activities. Based on changing needs in the CD-Imms program, over time this position may be assigned a specialized area of focus, such as designated group of diseases to manage.
- Hepatitis A/B/D/E Investigations PPM III Lead/SME (1 position, Career Service): This position will primarily be responsible for staff supervision, training, providing direction and oversight of case management for hepatitis B positive pregnant people and their infants in the Perinatal Hepatitis B Prevention Program. This position will also direct and oversee surveillance, case and outbreak investigations, response and prevention activities, and grant activities related to hepatitis A, B, D, and E. This PPM III may also be cross-trained to provide program management support for other communicable diseases to respond to shifting program priorities and needs, and to help ensure the timeliness and quality of investigations and response.
- One Health Investigations PPM III Lead/SME (1 position, SDA/TLT, 2 years): This position will be responsible for staff supervision, training, directing, and overseeing case and outbreak investigations, response and prevention activities, and grant activities related to COVID-19, emerging infections, and other diseases of public health significance impacted by COVID-19. The Program Lead will also focus on building local workforce capacity and developing/sustaining external partnerships to respond to emerging infections and outbreaks in healthcare and community settings, including expanding expertise in infection prevention and control in these settings. This Program Lead is responsible for ensuring the timeliness and quality of communicable disease investigation and response activities.
- Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Investigations PPM III Lead/SME (1 position, SDA/TLT, 1 year): This position will be responsible for staff supervision, training, directing and overseeing surveillance, case and outbreak investigations, response and prevention activities, and grant activities related to vaccine preventable diseases. This Program Lead is responsible for ensuring the timeliness and quality of communicable disease investigation and response activities.
- Foodborne and Enteric Diseases Investigations PPM III Lead/SME (1 position, SDA/TLT, 1 year): This position will be responsible for staff supervision, training, directing and overseeing surveillance, case and outbreak investigations, response and prevention activities, and grant activities related to foodborne and enteric diseases. This Program Lead is responsible for ensuring the timeliness and quality of communicable disease investigation and response activities.
COMMITMENT TO EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE:
As the only jurisdiction in the world named after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the most influential civil rights leaders in our nation's history, King County is a vibrant international community with residents that represent countries from around the world. It is a region with increasing diversity that cherishes the traditions of many cultures.
We have a deep commitment to equity and social justice and advancing practices, strategies, and policies that promote fairness, justice, and opportunity for all – in our workplaces and our communities. With this commitment, King County has adopted a pro-equity agenda to advance regional change and ensure that residents from vulnerable communities are incorporated into our emergency planning and public outreach efforts.
To learn more, please visit http://www.kingcounty.gov/equity
- Job Duties
The Investigations PPM III positions will have the following job duties:
- Develop and implement strategies for investigating cases and managing outbreaks, including providing oversight and direction for staff conducting disease investigations, and ensuring quality and timeliness of disease investigation activities.
- Provide direction, oversight, and consultation to respective multi-disciplinary team.
- Lead/facilitate team meetings, and coordinate disease control activities of assigned staff, as well as with other project or program leads in Public Health
- Supervise multidisciplinary team; involves hiring, mentoring, identifying training needs and executing training plans, providing feedback and coaching for staff to ensure quality of work, and recommending effective discipline if needed.
- In collaboration with other CD-Imms Section members, communicate pertinent information and data, including summarizing investigations and outbreaks to Public Health leadership, colleagues, health care providers, and the public.
- Represent Public Health with internal and external partners, including community stakeholders, and state and federal agencies.
- Coordinate with relevant internal Public Health teams on prioritization and deployment of your team’s work
- Develop, inform, and distribute guidance documents relevant to your team’s work in collaboration with stakeholders (may include Program Leads, Public Health leadership, DOH, CDC, DSHS, and other partners).
- Develop and maintain protocols and other tools and resources (e.g., scripts, frequently asked questions, intake forms, data entry and data management guidelines) relevant to your team’s work.
- Monitor the quality of data that are collected and entered into data systems and collaborate with the Section's Analytics and Informatics Team to improve collection and management of data.
- Identify key data that are needed to support disease investigation, surveillance, and reporting, and collaborate with epidemiologists on the Analytics & Informatics team to guide development of data systems, analyses, and reports that support disease investigation and outbreak management.
- Coordinate appropriate response activities with internal and external partners.
- Engage and seek input from impacted communities to develop systems and policies that advance equity and social justice.
- Develop strategies and tools to structurally embed race and social justice policies and practices in the work.
- Participate in and present educational webinars and other outreach activities as needed.
- Develop and implement an evaluation of unit performance, including data collection and monitoring regarding activities and outcomes to inform process improvement activities.
- Seek and apply for new grant opportunities.
- Manage contracts or grants.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- In consultation with program managers/leads, identify training needs for teams in the Section.
- In collaboration with Investigation PPM IIIs and other program staff, identify training gaps, and facilitate development of trainings and resources to support staff onboarding.
- Guide onboarding for individual employees in their first few weeks of employment.
- Supervise staff, including hiring, mentoring, identifying training needs and executing training plans, providing feedback and coaching for staff to ensure quality of work, and recommending effective discipline if needed.
- Coordinate with relevant internal Public Health teams on prioritization and deployment of training and onboarding work.
- In collaboration with program leads, develop, inform, and implement training materials.
- Develop and maintain inventory of onboarding and training resources, and work with program technical leads to ensure that resources are organized and up to date.
- Engage and seek input from program staff to ensure that training materials advance equity and social justice.
- Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills
- Background in public health, health education, nursing, health services, veterinary, clinical, or related fields.
- Experience in a supervisory, mentorship, or leadership role.
- Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with others, including working as a part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Knowledge of equity and social justice principles and practices, and understanding of the effects of place, race and policy, systems and environment-based inequities on marginalized communities and populations
- Subject matter expertise in communicable disease (e.g., developing or updating investigation protocols, coordinating testing, working with disease surveillance systems or databases, data collection, data entry, or conducting data quality assurance).
- Experience and skill in working with diverse populations and cultures.
- Must be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills that are culturally appropriate, respectful, and non-judgmental.
- Ability to interpret and adapt public health guidance to various settings.
- Demonstrated skills with independent decision-making, while understanding limitations of job role and elevating decision-making as needed in the absence of guidance from federal, state and local agencies
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and projects under a rapidly changing environment, with the ability to plan and prioritize effectively in this environment
- Ability to represent Public Health with internal and external partners.
- Strong organization skills and attention to detail.
- Demonstrated ability to create, compose, and edit written materials
- Public Health relies on office automation (Microsoft Office 365), other web enabled tools, and multiple large databases. Candidates must be proficient and comfortable with computer use to perform essential functions of the position.
- Work well under pressure.
- Ability to travel between sites on a regular basis.
Additionally, for Investigations PPM III:- Experience overseeing and directing communicable disease case and outbreak investigations.
- Experience preparing and presenting written and visual communications for both lay audiences and healthcare professionals, including presentations, brochures, fact sheets, blogs, press releases, website material, healthcare alerts, scientific manuals, newsletters, and articles.
Additionally, for Training PPM III:- Experience or training in education and/or adult learning strategies, or experience implementing training protocols or programs.
- Experience preparing and presenting training materials in written and verbal formats, including protocols and presentations.
Desired- Demonstrated skills and comprehension in communicable disease epidemiology, clinical characteristics, prevention, investigations, disease control, and pandemic preparedness and response highly desirable.
- Experience in a local or state public health practice setting.
- Experience in leadership and oversight of multidisciplinary teams.
- Knowledge of county hiring and contracting procedures highly desirable.
- Demonstrated skill in developing and giving presentations.
- Demonstrated skill in grant writing and managing grants and contracts.
- Demonstrated ability to learn and comprehend new and complex bodies of knowledge efficiently.
- For Investigations PPM III role: Experience communicating with healthcare providers and having a strong working knowledge of the clinical characteristics of disease transmission and control.
- Supplemental Information
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Guided by our "True North", we are making King County a welcoming community where every person can thrive. We value diversity, inclusion and belonging in our workplace and workforce. To reach this goal we are committed to workforce equity. Equitable recruiting, support, and retention is how we will obtain the highest quality workforce in our region; a workforce that shares and will help advance our guiding principles--we are one team; we solve problems; we focus on the customer; we drive for results; we are racially just; we respect all people; we lead the way; and we are responsible stewards. We encourage people of all backgrounds and identities to apply, including Native American and people of color, immigrants, refugees, women, LGBTQ+, people living with disabilities, and veterans.
King County is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer
No person is unlawfully excluded from employment opportunities based on race, color, religion,
national origin, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy), age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or other protected class. Our EEO policy applies to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, selection for training, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation.
(New) Covid-19 Vaccination Requirement
As of October 18, 2021, most* King County employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. If hired, you will be required to submit proof of vaccination by October 18th. People are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after their second dose in a two-dose series or two weeks after a single-dose vaccine. Employees may make requests for a reasonable accommodation based on a medical disability or for sincerely held religious beliefs. Philosophical, political, scientific, or sociological objections to vaccination will not be considered for an exemption or accommodation.
This directive applies to employees in the Executive branch*, the Assessor’s Office, Elections, the King County Sheriff’s Office, and the Executive Office.
To Apply
If you are interested in pursuing this position, please follow the application instructions carefully. If you need this announcement in an alternate language or format, would like to request accommodation or assistance in the application or assessment process or if you have questions please contact your recruiter listed on this job announcement.
Who May Apply
These positions are open to all qualified candidates
Work Schedule
This position is exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay. Work schedule is normally Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Alternative work schedules may be considered. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required. At Seattle/King County Public Health we strive to be accessible to those we serve. This position may require flexibility to accommodate different work schedules and work locations. With the exception of the Training PPM III, these positions will also participate in after-hours (evening, night, weekend, and holiday) on-call coverage (approximately 6 to 8 weeks per year).
Telecommuting
The work associated with this position will be performed predominantly through teleworking with reporting to office location and to meetings as needed. Employees will have access to shared workspaces at various King County facilities. Employees must reside in Washington state and within a reasonable distance to their King County worksite to respond to workplace reporting requirements.
Employees will be provided with a County issued laptop and must maintain a workspace with an internet connection (access may be supplemented in some situations) where they can reliably perform work and remain available and responsive during scheduled work hours. Please note that when an employee conducts work that is likely to bring them in contact with another individual, safety precautions are required, including the wearing of masks in some situations. King County is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and remains committed to reducing our carbon footprint. King County has a robust collection of tools and resources to support working remotely. The individual selected for this opportunity will be joining an innovative and progressive team that is redefining how we work as we transition to the department's hybrid environment.
Contact
If you have questions about your application or the application process, please contact Debbie Baker, Human Resource Analyst, at debbaker@kingcounty.gov or 206-263-4053.
APPLICATION PROCESS
A complete application packet will consist of the following:- NEOGOV/Government Jobs on-line or paper application
- Supplemental Questions - Answered thoroughly and completely
Candidates who pass the initial screening (based on their responses to the supplemental questions) will be contacted approximately 2-3 weeks after the application period closes. Eligible candidates will be invited to at least one (and possibly two) interviews. Candidates will generally be notified of a final decision within 1-2 weeks of their interview date- This selection process may include but is not limited to: evaluation of application materials and supplemental questions, testing and interviewing. For more information on our selection process, please refer to http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/jobs.aspx
- Public Health relies on office automation (Microsoft Office) and web-based enabled tools; therefore candidates must be proficient and comfortable with computer use to perform functions associated with on-going work.
- Regular and reliable attendance, effective communication skills, and development of effective working relationships are requirements of all Public Health positions.
- Staff may be required to play a role as a first responder in the event of a Public Health emergency.
NECESSARY SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS- The selected candidate must pass a thorough background investigation.
- Employees are required to protect the privacy and security of protected health information as defined in State and Federal Law.
- Employees are required to adhere to OSHA/WISHA guidelines including but not limited to completing their mandatory trainings on time.
UNION AFFILIATION
This position is not represented by a union.
King County offers a highly-competitive compensation and benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our employees and support our employees' health and well-being. Eligible positions receive the following benefits and have access to the following programs:
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage: King County pays 100% of the premiums for eligible employees and family members
- Life and disability insurance: employees are provided basic coverage and given the opportunity to purchase additional insurance for both the employee and eligible dependents
- Retirement: King County employees are eligible to participate in a pension plan through the Washington State Department of Retirement Systems and a 457(b) deferred-compensation plan
- Transportation program and ORCA transit pass
- 10 paid holidays each year (plus 2 personal holidays)
- Generous vacation and paid sick leave
- Paid parental leave, family and medical leaves, and volunteer leave
- Flexible Spending Account
- Wellness programs
- Onsite gyms and activity centers
- Employee giving program
- Employee assistance programs
- Flexible schedules and telecommuting options, depending on position
- Training and career development programs
This is a general description of the benefits offered to eligible King County employees, and every effort has been made to ensure its accuracy. If any information on this document conflicts with the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement (CBA), the CBA prevails. Also, in the event of any incorrect information in this document, applicable laws, policies, rules, CBAs, or official plan documents will prevail.
NOTE: Benefits for Term Limited Temporary (TLT) or Short Term Temporary (STT) positions, including leave eligibility and/or participation in the pension plan through the Washington State Department of Retirement Systems, will vary based upon the terms and details of the position. Short Term Temporary positions are not eligible for an ORCA transit pass.
For inquiries about the specifics of this position, please contact the recruiter identified on this job posting.
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01Do you have any background in public health, health education, nursing, health services, veterinary, clinical, or related fields?
- Yes
- No
02If you answered yes to the previous question, please describe in detail your experience.03How would you support King County's commitment to Equity and Social Justice if you were hired into one of these open positions?04Do you have experience in supervisory and leadership roles, including oversight and direction of multidisciplinary teams and their work?- Yes
- No
05If you answered yes to the previous question, please describe in detail your experience, what your role was, and with what organization.06This posting is recruiting for several different Program Lead/SMEs. Please select which PPM III position(s) you are applying for (choose all that apply).- Training Lead/SME (Career Service)
- General Investigations Lead/SME (Career Service)
- Viral Hepatitis A/B/D/E Investigations Lead/SME (Career Service)
- One Health Investigations Lead/SME (2-year SDA/TLT)
- Vaccine Preventable Diseases Investigations Lead/SME (1-year SDA/TLT)
- Foodborne and Enterics Investigations Lead/SME (1-year SDA/TLT)
07Based on the position(s) selected above in #6, what skills and experience do you have that make you a good fit for one or more of these positions? Please include details about any experience in training, adult education, communicable disease case and outbreak investigations, or in a laboratory or other health science setting.08Do you have experience with preparing and presenting written and visual communications for both lay audiences and healthcare professionals, including presentations, brochures, fact sheets, blogs, press releases, website material, healthcare alerts, scientific manuals, newsletters, and articles?- Yes
- No
09If you answered yes to the previous question, please describe in detail your experience.10Are you applying to this position as an eligible Current or Previous King County Employee Priority Placement Program Participant AND Is this position the same or lower percentage of full-time when compared to the position held at the point of the notification of layoff AND Do you possess the skills and abilities to qualify for this position?- Yes, I was given a layoff notice from my role at King County AND I am within two years of the effective date of my layoff. AND The position I was laid off from was the same or a higher percentage of FT status when compared to this one.
- No.
11If you answered yes to the question above and you are applying for this position as a Priority Placement Participant, to be considered, you must provide the following three pieces of information in the space provided: 1. The title you held when you received your layoff notice 2. The department you worked in 3. The effective date of your layoffRequired Question