Community Health Worker
Job Description
Position Number:
62424359Title:
Faculty AssistantFunctional Title:
Community Health WorkerCategory Status:
36-Faculty, HourlyApplicant Search Category:
FacultyUnit:
SPHL-Dean-Horowitz Center for Health LiteracyCampus/College Information:
Founded in 1856, University of Maryland, College Park is the state’s flagship institution. Our 1,250-acre College Park campus is just minutes away from Washington, D.C., and the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers of power. This unique proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and a myriad of research entities, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and non-profit organizations is simply unparalleled. Synergistic opportunities for our faculty and students abound and are virtually limitless in the nation’s capital and surrounding areas. The University is committed to attracting and retaining outstanding and diverse faculty and staff that will enhance our stature of preeminence in our three missions of teaching, scholarship, and full engagement in our community, the state of Maryland, and in the world.
Background Checks
Offers of employment are contingent on completion of a background check. Information reported by the background check will not automatically disqualify you from employment.
Position Summary/Purpose of Position:
This position is part of the Maryland Consumer Health Information Hub team in the UMD Horowitz Center for Health Literacy. Please see the Horowitz Center website for information about the Center, the Hub and its activities, and the authorizing legislation. The Community Health Worker (CHW) will represent the Hub to Maryland CHWs and organizations and support them in finding and distributing plain language and language accessible health, safety, social services, and health insurance information. The CWH will identify the information to be shared in collaboration with other Hub team members.
This position has a primary and secondary purpose.
The primary purpose is to build relationships with individual CHWs, CHW groups, associations, and employers to educate them about health literacy and help them distribute multi-lingual, plain language health, safety, social services, and health insurance information. The CHW will promote the Hub information collection, provide feedback on informational materials in the collection, and identify new materials to add. The CHW will work closely with the Hub team to plan and implement these activities.
The secondary purpose of this position is to deliver consumer/patient focused presentations on how to search for and evaluate the quality and suitability of health information and services. These presentations may be in-person, virtual, and hybrid and will likely happen in close coordination with CHWs and Hub partner organizations. The CHW will build on existing Hub resources and work with Hub team members and partner organizations to customize presentations for different public audiences.
Duties:
- Participate in team meetings and coordinate with Hub team members.
- Participate in 1-2 annual in-person Hub convenings.
- Inform supervisors of partnerships, work products, deadlines, and roadblocks or challenges
- Contribute to Hub tracking and reports.
- Identify and build relationships with CHWs, CHW groups, associations, and employers that the Hub can partner with.
- Train CHWs in health literacy skills and how to use the Hub’s collection of multilingual plain language health, safety, insurance and social services benefits information from partner organizations.
- Provide feedback on Hub informational materials and suggest new materials to add to the Hub collection.
- Deliver in-person, virtual, and hybrid consumer/patient focused presentations on how to search for and evaluate the quality and suitability of health information and services.
- Other duties as assigned.
Status: Hourly July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025, renewal available based on performance. Hourly rate $30.00. Possible funding for up to 2 years.
Reporting: This position reports to Dr. Catherine Maybury, Maryland Consumer Health Information Hub Coordinator
Location/work environment:
- 10-15 hours per week.
- In the field attending community events.
- Online connecting by email, phone, and videoconferencing with Community Health Workers (CHWs) and organizations.
- Weekly team meeting, can attend virtually or in person at UMD School of Public Health, College Park, MD.
- The CHW may be based in any county in Maryland.
- Must have valid driver’s license to drive to in-person meetings, events, and fieldwork sites in Maryland.
Minimum Qualifications:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in an area relevant to public health.
Experience:
- Maryland certified Community Health Worker with at least 3 years’ field experience engaging with community members.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Language proficiency in one of these languages: Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, French, or a West African language.
- Experience presenting to community and organizational leadership and community members.
- Ability to use Google suite tools, including email, Google drive, Google docs, and Google slides, and Microsoft suite tools, including Microsoft Word and Powerpoint.
Additional Certifications:
- Maryland certified Community Health Worker.
- Must have valid driver’s license to drive to in-person meetings, events, and fieldwork sites in Maryland.
Additional Information:
We will be hiring up to 3 individuals from this posting. Hourly rate is $30.00 and possible funding for up to 2 years. Renewal dependent on performance.
Posting Date:
06/24/2024Open Until Filled
YesBest Consideration Date
07/15/2024Physical Demands
Ability to drive, field work at community events and desk/office work environment
Diversity Statement:
The University of Maryland, College Park, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, creed, marital status, political affiliation, personal appearance, or on the basis of rights secured by the First Amendment, in all aspects of employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.
Women, minorities, LGBTQ+, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
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