Performs responsible and complex duties associated with a specialized function of a Community Health Worker. Duties may vary, but can be generally described as: planning, assigning, coordinating, directing, scheduling, evaluating, verifying, training, and processing of information. A thorough knowledge of policies, procedures, and methods for the area of responsibility is required. Initiative and independent judgments are frequently exercised in formulating procedures or methods, and in program coordination. Work is performed under general supervision within University policies and procedures. Job performance is based upon overall operation effectiveness.This position will support the efforts of a new initiative entitled VIBRANT MOMS. VIBRANT MOMS is an NIH-funded, community-based project with the goal to identify maternal health needs, identify barriers to address these needs, and understand community priorities for the development of strategies to work with vulnerable maternal patient populations. The Community Health Worker (CHW) role will be vital to the success of the project throughout the Texas Panhandle. Counties where the project will take place include Deaf Smith, Gray, Parmer, Potter, Randall and Swisher Counties. Ultimately, the goal of the project is to develop strategies to implement evidence-based interventions to improve care coordination and maternal health in the Texas Panhandle. The CHW role will be critical to community outreach, participant enrollment, and engagement. The CHW will have various duties as an integral team member of a community engagement research study (NIH funded) that examines maternal health disparities in the Texas Panhandle. Regular communication with the research team and community partners will be essential. This position will require travel to rural and urban counties in the Texas Panhandle for rapport building, recruitment, coordinating, participation in meetings, data collection, and other tasks as assigned by the supervisor and research team. Mileage will be reimbursed.High School diploma or equivalent. Three years progressively responsible CHW experience. Additional education and/or related experience to equal three years may substitute on a year for year basis. Community Health Worker Certification.