Coordinator I, Fatherhood

About the role

The role involves providing education and case management services to the fathers or partners of Healthy Start mothers and babies, focusing on enhancing their capabilities and promoting the Healthy Start family.

Responsibilities

• Provides fatherhood case management services for 25 fathers/partners annually.
• Maintains regular and ongoing communication with the mother’s Healthy Start Case Manager to ensure effective and coordinated services.
• Conducts a fatherhood assessment and develops a service plan, identifying needs and goals related to employment, education, parenting, and personal health.
• Completes client documentation and ensures accurate database entry according to Healthy Start guidelines.
• Ensures HIPAA confidentiality, voluntary consent to participate, and as appropriate, release-of-information documentation.
• Maintains HRSA Healthy Start performance standards related to number of clients served and the frequency and method of contact.
• Attends monthly Healthy Start case staffing and case manager meetings.
• Secures information or materials needed to present educational materials to fathers of Healthy Start.
• Operates audio/visual equipment in presentations of educational programs.
• Works in the community to partner with existing programs, transportation connections, Workforce Tulsa, Job Corps, etc. that may hire a Tulsa Healthy Start father participant.
• Assists in facilitating the Tulsa Fatherhood Coalition and serves as a resource person for neighborhood networks.
• Consults with Healthy Start management and THD marketing department regarding appropriate educational and promotional fatherhood materials.
• Supports participant in early weeks of employment regarding specific job expectations.
• Serves as a resource person for participants in early weeks of classes regarding education expectations.
• Promotes Healthy Start’s educational programs and represents the Tulsa Health Department to individuals and community groups, health fairs, local area media, school personnel, religious organizations, childcare programs, social services agencies, and healthcare providers.
• May assist in the facilitation of the Tulsa Fatherhood Coalition and serve as a resource person for neighborhood networks.
• Consults with Healthy Start management and THD marketing department regarding appropriate educational and promotional fatherhood materials.
• Supports participant in early weeks of employment regarding specific job expectations.
• Serves as a resource person for participants in early weeks of classes regarding education expectations.
• Promotes Healthy Start’s educational programs and represents the Tulsa Health Department to individuals and community groups, health fairs, local area media, school personnel, religious organizations, childcare programs, social services agencies, and healthcare providers.
• Attends required training in support of duties and responsibilities of this position.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Education: Baccalaureate degree in health education/health promotion education or a related field required; master’s degree in health or a related field preferred.
• Experience: Three years of experience in health education, or case management, or working with low-income families/fathers.
• Licenses: Valid Oklahoma driver’s license.

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal and good communication skills are required.
• Ability to obtain cooperation from clients who come from a wide range of economic, social, and cultural backgrounds.
• Skills in interviewing and engaging clients; and in working with agency staff and community resources.
• Comfortable in gathering information about and providing education related to reproductive health.
• Ability to work closely and cooperatively with programmatic co-workers toward a Healthy Start family’s goals.
• Public speaking, including radio/television interviews.
• Ability to build community relationships.
• Knowledge of community resources and helping relationships that would assist fathers and/or families.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Paid Holidays (typically 13 days per calendar year + 2 floating holidays)
• Paid Time Off (PTO) 20 hours per month
• Extended Sick Leave (ESL)
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Group Life Insurance and Supplemental Life Insurance
• Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
• Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Critical Illness Care Plan including Cancer*
• Accident Plan
• Hospitalization Plan
• Supplemental and Whole Life Plans
• Legal and Identity Theft Protection Plans
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness
• Cost of Living Adjustments (COLAs)
• Investment Benefits (e.g., 401A Employer/Employee Matching Fund (max. $150 per month), 457 Deferred Compensation Plan)
• Post Employment Health Plan (PEHP) - employer contributes 1% of the employee’s salary per year and unused employee sick leave is transferred to PEHP account upon retirement
• Employee Assistance Program
• Working 4 Balance - Workplace Wellness Program
• Flexible Plan
• Tulsa Municipal Employees Federal Credit Union
• THD employment qualifies for nursing education loan repayment through the NURSE Corps Loan Repayment Program.