Information & Funding Specialist (Center for Rural Health)
Hiring Department: Center for Rural Health, School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Hiring Salary/Position Classification: $44,000 plus/year (salary is negotiable based on qualifications and experience). This is a full-time, benefited, exempt position.
Benefits: Includes single or family health care coverage (premiums paid for by the university), basic life insurance, EAP, retirement plan, tuition waiver, annual and sick leave. Optional benefits available: supplemental life, dental, vision, flexible spending account, supplemental retirement plans.
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm. May require occasional work outside of standard hours due to business travel or other deadlines. Working from home or remotely is not an available option for this position.
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Position Details:
The Center for Rural Health (CRH) at the University of North Dakota is seeking an experienced and talented individual to serve as Information & Funding Specialist for a federally-funded project to develop and maintain a website featuring information to help communities address the opioid crisis. The position will be responsible for writing promising practices and identifying and describing a wide range of relevant resources and funding opportunities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify, select, organize and index information.
- Write profiles of programs to be included on website.
- Work in a team environment and participate in collaborative activities, including content development, quality improvement, and outreach.
Required Competencies:
The ideal candidate for this job must apply creativity and logic to generate solutions, and make sound decisions. Work in a fast-paced environment, meeting deadlines and achieving project objectives. The Information & Funding Specialist must collaborate effectively with project staff to meet goals and be dedicated to quality work.
Candidate must also have:
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Experience using computers, specifically with Microsoft Office software applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook or similar), e-mail, and Internet usage.
- Strong searching sills including web-based searches.
- Strong, analytical problem solving, decision-making, and leadership skills.
- Strong aptitude with technology and demonstrated ability to learn/use new computer software applications.
- Demonstrated ability to write for the web.
- Demonstrated organizational skills and ability to be self-directed.
- High level of attention-to-detail and the ability to generate high quality and timely work products.
- Ability to prioritize, multi-task, take initiative, and to work as part of a team.
- Be willing to travel occasionally to national, regional, or local events/meetings
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Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Experience writing, with demonstrated ability to write for the web.
- Successful completion of criminal history records check.
Instructions for required writing samples:
- Provide a sample web page copy (not an article) that uses web-writing best practices to convey information on a topic with which the applicant is familiar, 250-500 words.
- Provide an email written in a professional style to request an interview with a program contact for a potential model program to be developed for our website. See https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/project-examples/1062 for an example of a similar model program write-up.
- Provide a brief summary describing the content of this publication: http://www.ncsl.org/documents/health/RuralHealth_PolicyOptions_1113.pdf, 30-80 words. See examples:
Preferred Qualifications:
- Degree in English, communications, journalism, library and information science, public health, social work, sociology, or other degree related to information dissemination, rural health, population health, or health policy.
- Master’s degree.
- Experience with synthesizing complicated information from multiple sources into cohesive and plain language.
- Experience researching a topic and conducting interviews to inform writing.
- Understanding of U.S. rural health issues or issues related to the opioid crisis through education or work experience.
- Experience or training related to organizing information, searching the Internet, and utilizing a website to disseminate information.
- Experience working with a content management system and basic HTML.
- Experience working with state or national organizations.
- Experience developing website content.
- Experience writing for a national audience.
- Experience with format, layout, and design principles of electronic and print publications.