Health Promotion Facilitator II

Under the direction of the Manager, Early Years Health Promotion (EYHP), and working in close collaboration with team members across Healthy Children and Families (HCF), the Health Promotion Facilitator (HPF) II is responsible for leading initiatives that include planning, developing, implementing and evaluating early years health promotion projects using a population health promotion approach and an evidence informed decision making approach. A member of an interdisciplinary and provincial team, the HPF II brings relevant expertise in the area of maternal, child and youth health and utilizes professional knowledge and skills along with creative health promotion strategies to support improvements in the health of families across Alberta. Key duties will include synthesizing evidence and information from multiple sources into various deliverables; leading project plans within a strong project management and stakeholder engagement framework; developing and completing quality improvement processes, including monitoring and evaluation; and representing EYHP through participation and leadership on various committees and working groups, both internal and external to AHS.

As a Health Promotion Facilitator II, you will lead and coordinate health promotion, disease and injury prevention initiatives and programs using a population health promotion approach. You will identify behavioural, social, political, economic, environmental and organizational factors that promote or compromise health and recommend evidence-informed strategies to address identified priorities. You will conduct situational analyses, literature reviews, environmental scans and focus groups to make recommendations as part of an integrated program planning and evaluation process. You will manage projects using standardized tools and techniques that are conducive or aligned with health promotion, disease and injury prevention practices. You will collaborate with key internal and external key stakeholders in project or program planning, development, implementation, evaluation and improvement. You will facilitate community and staff engagement and build community and staff capacity around population health promotion priorities. You will evaluate the effectiveness of existing health promotion and disease prevention strategies and make recommendations.

Master's degree in Health Promotion, Public or Population Health, Health Education or a related field.

A minimum of three (3) years of experience in health promotion or related field. Knowledge of and experience applying the population health promotion model, relevant health promotion strategies and determinants of health. A minimum of three (3) years of experience in nursing, health promotion or population and public health, in a maternal, child, and/or youth environment. Comprehensive content expertise in maternal, child, and/or youth health. Demonstrated experience in project management and program planning, implementation and evaluation. Ability to synthesize information from multiple evidence sources into high quality deliverables (technical reports, strategic plans, presentations). Demonstrated organizational and leadership skills and ability to work both independently and collaboratively with a variety of disciplines, sectors and internal and external stakeholders/partners. Ability to lead/facilitate and participate in provincial working groups/committees.

Demonstrated methodological skills, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, knowledge of research /QI ethical considerations and implementation and evaluation frameworks.