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Data Coordinator / Learning Collaborative Point of Contact
Employment Status: Full-Time
Reports To: Director of Prevention and Health Promotion
Location: 605 Washington Street, Portsmouth, Ohio 45662
Application Deadline: Open until filled
The Portsmouth City Health Department is accepting resumes for a full-time Data Coordinator / Learning Collaborative Point of Contact for the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)-Impact initiative serving Portsmouth and Scioto County.
Under the direction of the Director of Prevention and Health Promotion, this position leads data collection, performance measurement, reporting, data quality, continuous quality improvement, evaluator coordination, and learning collaborative activities for the RCORP-Impact program.
The Data Coordinator manages the project’s data lifecycle from collection through practical use. This includes coordinating information submitted by Portsmouth City Health Department staff and network partners; validating data for completeness, accuracy, consistency, duplication, and timeliness; maintaining organized and secure records; analyzing project performance; and translating findings into dashboards, summaries, reports, quality-improvement activities, and practical recommendations.
Project information may include data related to prevention, treatment, recovery, supportive services, screening, referrals, warm handoffs, linkage to services, participant engagement and follow-up, service utilization, workforce activities, partner performance, service reach, referral completion, participant outcomes, project milestones, and other required outputs and outcomes.
Primary Areas of Responsibility
- Data Collection, Sources, and Data Management: 30%
- Data Quality, Validation, and Partner Reporting: 20%
- Continuous Quality Improvement and Performance Improvement: 10%
- Learning Collaborative Point of Contact: 10%
- HRSA Evaluator, Technical Assistance, and Grant Reporting Coordination: 10%
Minimum Qualifications
- Associate degree in public health, health administration, data analytics, statistics, social sciences, business administration, information systems, human services, or a related field. An equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.
- Experience with program data, grant reporting, performance measurement, quality improvement, evaluation, public health, healthcare, behavioral health, human services, or related work.
- Experience coordinating reporting, documentation, or information across multiple partners, programs, departments, or organizations.
- Experience using spreadsheets, databases, electronic tracking systems, dashboards, or other data-management tools.
- Ability to collect, organize, validate, analyze, interpret, and summarize quantitative and qualitative information.
- Ability to identify data-quality concerns, resolve discrepancies, document corrections, and communicate reporting expectations clearly.
- Strong organizational and project-management skills, including the ability to manage multiple reporting schedules, deadlines, data sources, and partner submissions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to present technical information clearly to staff, leadership, partners, evaluators, and other stakeholders.
- Ability to maintain accurate, secure, confidential, organized, and audit-ready project documentation.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, and the ability to learn grant-reporting, data-management, performance-management, collaboration, and electronic information systems required for the project.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively, exercise sound judgment, maintain confidentiality, and meet Department and federal grant deadlines.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in public health, health administration, data analytics, statistics, social sciences, business administration, information systems, human services, or a related field. An equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.
- Experience with federal, state, or local grant-funded programs and associated performance-reporting requirements.
- Experience with public health, behavioral health, substance-use, treatment, recovery, supportive-service, rural-health, or community-based program data.
- Experience developing data-collection tools, data dictionaries, reporting templates, measure definitions, dashboards, scorecards, or performance summaries.
- Experience coordinating data collection and reporting across a multi-organization collaborative, coalition, network, or grant partnership.
- Experience with Health Resources and Services Administration grants or other federal health or human-services programs.
- Experience applying continuous quality-improvement methods, including Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles, root-cause analysis, process mapping, or corrective-action planning.
- Experience working with program evaluators, technical-assistance providers, funders, or external reporting entities.
- Experience presenting data to nontechnical audiences and translating findings into practical recommendations.
- Knowledge of Portsmouth and Scioto County healthcare, behavioral-health, recovery, supportive-service, and community-resource systems.
How to Apply
Qualified applicants should submit a current resume to:
Belinda Leslie, Administrator
Portsmouth City Health Department
Email:belinda.leslie@portsmouthoh.org
Resumes will be accepted until the position is filled.
The Portsmouth City Health Department is an equal opportunity employer.
Pay: $20.00 - $23.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40.0 per week
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
Salary : $20 - $23