Health and Human Resources Specialist, Senior

About the role

This position serves as the Program Administrator for the Women, Infant, Children (WIC) Farmer’s Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) to ensure compliance with federal and state regulations, secure federal funding for the program, and deliver consistent benefit issuance to WV WIC participants.

Responsibilities

• Ensure consistent benefit issuance to WIC participants in WV
• Authorize farmers to be WIC authorized FMNP vendors
• Train and monitor farmers to ensure federal and state compliance
• Assist with program policy and clarification
• Assist with marketing and outreach strategies
• Attract and retain more WV farmers for program participation
• Serve as a liaison to ensure problem resolution and procedure changes
• Write the FMNP state plan
• Work to modernize FMNP — including creating online platforms and processes that streamline service delivery of the program
• Prepare data and program reports for the WV Legislature
• Work with USDA Food and Nutrition Administration (FNA) for WV compliance issues

Requirements

Training

Bachelor's Degree from a regionally accredited four-year college or university. Additional experience as described below may be substituted for the required training on a year-for-year basis.

Experience

Four years full-time, equivalent part-time paid or volunteer experience in a technical or program area that is related to the area of employment. Post-graduate education in a field related to the technical or program area may be substituted for the required experience on the basis of fifteen semester hours for one year of experience.

Other information

Three (3) years of full-time or equivalent part-time paid experience in the Health and Human Resources series may substitute for the required training and experience.