Program Specialist- Early Years

1 month ago

Dartmouth, Canada Nova Scotia Health Authority Full time

Req ID: 186901
Location: Provincial Zone, Flexible within the province
Department: PH SSP Early Years
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100%) x 1
NSGEU Admin Professionals Position
Posting Closing Date: 11-Oct-24

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We're on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

Nova Scotia Health employs professionals in all corners of our beautiful province. We believe there's a place here for everyone to call home, from vibrant cities with exuberant nightlife to quaint towns with picturesque trails. The work-life balance that comes with a Nova Scotia Health role means you'll have the time to explore, discover, and participate in that coveted Atlantic lifestyle. Visit us today and check out www.novascotia.com to see why more people from across the globe are moving here.

About the Opportunity

The Program Specialist works with team members and partners to implement the healthy development standards to support social, economic and physical environments for healthy pregnancies, healthy birth outcomes, parenting and healthy child development. The Program Specialist with their knowledge of pre and postnatal healthy development synthesizes data and evidence and uses knowledge translation and mobilization techniques and tools to support the application of comprehensive, evidence informed policies and strategies specific to the pre and postnatal and early childhood populations.

The Specialist provides leadership and advanced knowledge in population health and healthy development to reduce health inequities and address the determinants of health. The Program Specialist is responsible for:

  • Providing expert level advice, evidence and best practice on advancing the understanding of early years work
  • Coordinating projects, initiatives and teams working on a specific content issue
  • Contributing to knowledge translation by retrieving, assessing and synthesizing complex research findings
  • Collaboratively developing tools, indicators and measures to enable an understanding of early years work and how it translates related to a specific issue

About You

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

  • Masters in public health, health related or other relevant field with 3 years relevant experience
  • Baccalaureate degree in a health-related field or other relevant field with 5 years relevant experience
  • Knowledge of and experience in early years population and programming
  • Knowledge of and experience in media advocacy and communications
  • Knowledge of and experience in oppression as a social determinant of health, awareness, and study of one's own power and privilege and, appropriate public health approaches to reduce health inequities
  • Knowledge of and experience working with evidence-informed-decision making tools and practices, conduction rapid evidence reviews and producing evidence briefs
  • Knowledge of and experience in innovative systems thinking with an understanding of working with communities and community base organizations
  • Knowledge of and experience in interacting with municipal units, communities and community leadership within zones
  • knowledge of and experience with project management techniques and processes
  • Knowledge and experience with community development and mobilization
Hours
  • Permanent full-time position; 70 hours biweekly
Compensation and Benefits

$39.23 - $49.23 hourly

Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.

Once You've Applied

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

​This is a Admin Professionals bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units, or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.

Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.

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