Demo

Community Health Specialist

City of West Allis
City of West Allis Salary
West, WI Full Time
POSTED ON 4/4/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/2/2026

The Southwest Suburban Health Department is seeking a Community Health Specialist to support the Senior Center. This role combines administrative support with hands-on program coordination, offering the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the lives of adults 55 and older. In this position, you will help drive daily operations, assist with financial processing, coordinate volunteers, and play a key role in planning and facilitating engaging programs and events. Working closely with the Senior Center Coordinator and dedicated volunteers, you will help ensure high-quality services in a busy, active environment that offers a wide variety of programs and activities. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys collaboration, community engagement, and creating positive experiences for others.  Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Enjoy a competitive benefits package, including contributory medical coverage, fully paid dental benefits, a dual pension program, and paid time off. West Allis residents earn an additional 5% on top of the pay range.


Make a difference in your community—apply today!


Click Here To Review Job Description (PDF)

Daily Senior Center Operations:
  • Answer phone calls and assist Senior Center members with questions about programming.
  • Staff the reception desk of the Senior Center as needed. 
  • Prepare and distribute monthly and weekly schedule of senior center activities.
  • Coordinate with Health Department staff on website content for Senior Center and posting of new content.
  • Assist Senior Center Coordinator in development of content for social media and marketing.
  • Enter membership information, programming, and payments into MySeniorCenter.
  • Collect payments for programming and processes and remits monies through City of West Allis finance program.
  • Develops and maintain policies, and procedures for Senior Center.
Senior Center Programming:
  • Support the development and delivery of Senior Center programs and activities by assisting program volunteers in setting up rooms for programming and preparing for activities.
  • Facilitate evidence-based programming such as AARP Senior Planet, Walk with Ease, and Stand Up for your Health.
  • Based on personal interest/experience and center needs facilitate additional senior center programming.

Participation on meetings, committees and workgroups:

  • Participate in internal or external meetings, committees, workgroups, collaborations and coalitions involving community members and community partners. I.e., Age-Friendly West Allis, CHIP action teams, etc. 
    • Positive representative of City, Senior Center and Health Department  
    • Participate in community events and activities that support Senior Center programming and fosters collaborative community partner relationships
    • Experience with group processes
    • Assist with data collection, and generating reports from MySeniorCenter 

Professional development:

  • Attends all mandatory trainings.
  • Completes all required self-assessments and results used as input for own development plan.
  • Assumes responsibility for own professional growth based on development plan- able to identify own goals and challenging areas for growth.
  • Self-motivated and directed.
  • Active learner
  • Reports to staff on knowledge gained from trainings that will assist colleagues and provides direction on how to implement knowledge to improve divisional services.

Emergency Preparedness activities:

  • Actively participates in internal and external emergency preparedness trainings and drills for emergency situations
    • Considerable knowledge of disaster/emergency preparedness services 
      • will serve as an active member in the agency ICS structure 
      • work with agency leadership to coordinate senior center emergency drills
Click Here To Review Full Job Duties (PDF)

High school diploma required; Associate’s degree (AA) in Healthcare, Social Work, or a related field preferred.

Click Here To Review Qualifications

Salary : $29 - $35

If your compensation planning software is too rigid to deploy winning incentive strategies, it’s time to find an adaptable solution. Compensation Planning
Enhance your organization's compensation strategy with salary data sets that HR and team managers can use to pay your staff right. Surveys & Data Sets

What is the career path for a Community Health Specialist?

Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs on the Community Health Specialist career path by checking the boxes next to the positions that interest you.
Income Estimation: 
$56,363 - $71,751
Income Estimation: 
$70,276 - $95,063
Income Estimation: 
$61,013 - $81,239
Income Estimation: 
$33,598 - $61,119
Income Estimation: 
$65,352 - $83,351
Income Estimation: 
$73,522 - $95,253
Income Estimation: 
$70,882 - $94,516
Employees: Get a Salary Increase
View Core, Job Family, and Industry Job Skills and Competency Data for more than 15,000 Job Titles Skills Library

Job openings at City of West Allis

  • City of West Allis Milwaukee, WI
  • Description Join Our Team as a Library Cleaner - Help Keep Our Community Spaces Sparkling. Are you searching for a hands-on role that keeps you active whil... more
  • 16 Days Ago

  • City of West Allis West, WI
  • The West Allis Police Department is seeking a Community Service Officer for a part-time, unarmed, uniformed civilian position. Key responsibilities in the ... more
  • 5 Days Ago

  • City of West Allis West, WI
  • Are you a seasoned emergency services Dispatcher ready to take the lead in ensuring public safety? Be the calm in the storm and the force behind the front ... more
  • 8 Days Ago

  • City of West Allis West, WI
  • There’s no such thing as “routine” in this role. If you have concrete finishing or general construction experience and want a role where every day brings s... more
  • 11 Days Ago


Not the job you're looking for? Here are some other Community Health Specialist jobs in the West, WI area that may be a better fit.

  • Community Care, Inc. Milwaukee, WI
  • Health Information Specialist, Full time, Day Shift, Milwaukee County, WI Community Care is hiring a Health Information Specialist for our rewarding opport... more
  • 24 Days Ago

  • Wisconsin Community Services, Inc. Milwaukee, WI
  • To apply for this position, scroll down to the bottom of this page and click the button that reads: "APPLY NOW" Returning Applicant? Login Now Start Over w... more
  • 25 Days Ago

AI Assistant is available now!

Feel free to start your new journey!