Program Administration Officer C- Health Promoter

**Req ID: 143813**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location: Central Zone, Flexible within the Province**
**Department: MHA CZ Health Promotion & Prevention**
**Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100% FTE) x 1 position(s)**
**Status: NSGEU** **Admin Professionals Position**
**Posting Closing Date: 16-Nov-22**

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**:
Reporting to the Provincial Manager - Health Promotion, Mental Health and Addictions, the Program Administrative Officer - Health Promotion [PAO-HP] is responsible, in collaboration with NSHA health promotion colleagues and internal and external partners, for developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating health promotion and prevention activities for Mental Health and Addictions including the advancement of substance use and gambling health promotion policy. The PAO-HP will play a critical role in implementing the Promoting Positive Mental Health Action Plan at the local, zonal, and provincial level.

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

- Bachelors degree in Health Promotion is required (or equivalent determined by the employer)
- Masters degree an asset
- Minimum three (3) years of experience in the health promotion field with focus on policy development, program design, implementation and evaluation
- Knowledge of best practices and research in the field of health promotion and substance use prevention
- Understanding of the research process and its role in evidence-based decision
- Superior coordination, presentation, facilitation, and project management skills
- Ability to manage multiple and simultaneous responsibilities and prioritize work is an asset
- Strong communication, interpersonal and collaborative skills to effectively work with multiple internal and external partners in a variety of settings in Nova Scotia Health Authority and the community
- Demonstrated skills in: health promotion, population health, community development, program planning, implementation and evaluation, social marketing
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
- Successful external applicants are required to provide a criminal record check (including Vulnerable Sector Search) to People Services before starting employment and assume any associated costs as a condition of employment

**Hours**:

- Permanent Full Time position; 70 hours bi-weekly
- Some travel throughout the zones may be required

**Compensation and Incentives**:
$31.85 - $40.22 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.

As per the COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination Protocol in High-Risk Settings, Nova Scotia Health requires all team members to be fully vaccinated by November 30th, 2021.

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