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Nature of Work
KANAWHA COUNTY
1 VACANCY
The Program Manager for the Behavioral Surveillance Unit manages the West Virginia's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) in conjunction with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is a major statewide population health surveillance program which surveys random West Virginia adult residents about health and health practices including general health, health care utilization, risk factors, preventative practices, and chronic diseases. This position manages several interviewers (1 Health and Human Resources Specialist, 4 Health and Human Resources Associates and 13 Temporary Health and Human Resources Associates). The position is responsible for collecting, editing, analyzing, and disseminating data on health risks and lifestyle choices of West Virginia's adult residents. This involves ongoing evaluation of data collection quality and interviewers performance, hiring and training of new interviewers, quarterly training of existing interviewers, and supervision of interviewers. The Program Manager is responsible for providing annual survey design input to CDC, annual grant applications, reporting of program progress, monthly editing of data, submissions to CDC's upload/download site, coordinating annual meetings with stakeholders regarding data collection priorities, representing WV in monthly CDC meetings and annual conference/trainings, working with the Epidemiology Division to ensure statistical analysis, report dissemination, and evaluation of the BRFSS Program.
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Minimum Qualifications
Training:Master's degree from an accredited college or university in the area of assignment.
Substitution:One year of full-time or equivalent part-time paid experience as described below may substitute for the Master's degree.
Experience:Three years of full-time or equivalent part-time paid professional experience in the area of assignment, one year of which must have been in a program administration capacity.
Substitution:Post-graduate training in the area of assignment may substitute through an established formula for the non-supervisory experience.