OPH Bureau of Family Health / Southeast Louisiana AHEC
BFH Clinical Services Team –
Contraceptive Access Initiative Manager
The LDH OPH BFH Clinical Services Team seeks a full-time Program Manager for a new statewide Contraceptive Access Initiative (herein referred to as the Initiative) to reduce unintended pregnancy through increased provision of the full range of FDA-approved family planning methods, including highly-effective Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC). The Initiative will seek to engage a wide range of community providers in training, technical assistance, and quality improvement work, as well as to develop and promote policies which support widespread, equitable access to contraception.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in public health, social work, health related field or another field directly related to duties listed below;
- Master’s Degree preferred
- Experience in program design and implementation
- Experience in project outreach and promotion
- Experience in quality improvement in a health care setting
- Experience working with Federally Qualified Health Centers, Rural Health Clinics, and/or other primary care providers
- Strong organizational, oral and interpersonal communication, and writing skills
- Competence in the use of Microsoft Office computer programs
- Willing to travel locally and nationally for job duties
Desired Skills, Knowledge, Attitudes:
- Understanding of women’s reproductive health issues, including and especially the complexities of pregnancy intention and desire, barriers to contraceptive access, the important role of reproductive justice, and health disparities
- Knowledge of reproductive health care best practices and medical guidelines, particularly the QFP as relates to contraception:
- Patient-centered care & Shared-decision making
- Quality counseling and patient education (RLP, MI, Tiered Contraceptive Counseling, Risk Reduction, Teach Back, etc)
- Contraceptive methods/technology including LARCs
- Adolescent-friendly reproductive health services
- Knowledge of Electronic Health Records/Electronic Practice Management
- Knowledge of FQHC/RHC models, practice, regulation, etc.
- Strong leadership and management skills
- Ability to organize, multi-task, prioritize, and delegate appropriately to manage towards aggressive timelines and targets.
- Ability to solve problems and make decisions effectively.
- Ability to work independently and manage self towards goals, while being a genuine “team player”
- Value team-based work and collaboration with both clinical and non-clinical team members.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with community health care providers and agencies to promote and sustain the Initiative
Key Responsibilities & Functions:
- Leadership & Strategic Vision
- Set a strategic vision and operational plan for increasing contraceptive access through a coordinated statewide initiative, including both short-term and long-range plans
- Effectively communicates with public health agencies and private organizations at the state and local level with the potential to be strategic partners in promoting contraceptive access
- Maintains a professional knowledge of elements central to success of the Initiative’s goals
- evidence-based programs and best practices
- cultural, social, and behavioral factors that contribute to the issues of unintended pregnancy and contraceptive access
- health systems and policy reform.
- Management & Supervision
- Manage all aspects of Contraceptive Access Initiative, including but not limited to Provider Needs Assessment; Initiative Outreach & Promotion; Provider Recruitment & Retention; Training & Technical Assistance Development and Implementation; Policy Development; Monitoring & Evaluation
- Develop comprehensive work plan for Initiative with timeline and targets; monitor progress regularly
- Collaborate with BFH Business Operations Unit to develop and monitor budget
- Actively identify related funding opportunities to increase sustainability of the Initiative; assist in the preparation of funding applications and reports as needed.
- Supervise applicable staff, including but not limited to the Data Coordinator and the Training Coordinator.
- Policy
- Lead the development of OPH BFH policy proposals related to contraceptive access
- Relationship-Building & Recruitment
- Develop and coordinate outreach efforts to increase provider awareness about the initiative, the associated resources, and the need for increased contraceptive access
- Recruit clinical systems, clinics, providers, and/or other partners to participate in the Initiative
- Design and coordinate Mini-RFA process for selecting Initiative cohort(s)
- Contracts
- Identify contractors for execution of Initiative activities
- Work with BFH Business Operations to develop scopes of work, RFAs, sole source justification language, etc, as appropriate to execute needed contracts
- Manage and monitor contractor performance and compliance
Please submit resume by September 21st via email or mail to:
Gloria Grady
1450 Poydras, Suite 2025G
New Orleans, LA 70112
