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Community Impact Supervisor

Summit County Public Health
3 hours ago
Full-time
On-site
Akron, Ohio, United States
Bachelor's, Master's

Are you passionate about strengthening community well-being and advancing public health? Do you want to make a meaningful impact through strategic leadership, program development, and local partnerships? Join Summit County Public Health!

Our agency is proud of our commitment to both the communities we serve and the employees who make our work possible. Our staff has recognized us as a certified Great Place to Work®-and we invite you to be part of our mission to create a healthful environment and ensure the accessibility of health services to all.

Summit County Public Health is seeking a Community Impact Supervisor to join our team on a full-time basis (35 hours per week, Monday through Friday). In this vital role, you will oversee public health programs, lead community health assessments, secure grant opportunities, and direct essential advisory and review boards. This position offers a rewarding career path for collaborative, community-minded leaders dedicated to public service.

Primary Duties

  • Directs the creation, growth, and execution of public health initiatives to ensure they align with department goals.
  • Manages operational compliance, reporting, and staffing for assigned initiatives, while offering backup leadership for behavioral health services.
  • Coordinates with local stakeholders to develop, implement, monitor, and report on Community Health Assessments and Improvement Plans.
  • Strengthens community alliances by managing partner communication, organizing strategic meetings, and driving shared objectives.
  • Administers the Social Services Advisory Board, including project implementation, agenda development, meeting preparation and minutes, member communication, and follow-up activities.
  • Leads the Overdose Fatality Review Board and Suicide Fatality Review Board processes in collaboration with the Behavioral Health Supervisor and community partners to review trends, identify service gaps, develop recommendations, and track prevention strategies.
  • Identifies and pursues new grant opportunities to expand services, sustain programs, and meet community needs.
  • Mentors and supports staff in grant-related activities such as program planning, data collection, proposal development, reporting, compliance, and monitoring of grant deliverables.
  • Provides prevention services, including prevention education, communication, alternatives programming, problem identification and referral, planning and evaluation, community-based processes, environmental strategies, and ongoing professional growth and responsibilities.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Psychology, Social Work, or related field required.
  • Masters' degree preferred.
  • Must possess 3-5 years of directly related work experience.
  • Current valid Ohio driver's license, automobile availability and insurance coverage.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain prevention certification, as required, through the Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board to support assigned prevention programs and services.

Summit County Public Health (SCPH) is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our human capital is the most valuable asset we have. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our reputation and organization's achievement as well. We embrace and encourage our employees' differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.