Program Specialist

7 months ago


Dartmouth, Canada Nova Scotia Health Authority Full time

**Req ID**:163896**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location**:Eastern** Zone, **All Locations**
**Department**:PH SSP Early Years**
**Type of Employment**:Permanent** **Hourly FT** (**100%** FTE) x **1** position(s)**
**Status: NSGEU** **Admin Professionals** Position**
**Posting Closing Date**:7-Dec-23**

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.

**About the Opportunity**:
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 Incentives**:
$34.96 - $42.58 hourly

**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.

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