Home Visiting Model Consultant - Western Region

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide consultation and technical assistance to local grantees implementing home visiting programs in their communities.
• Establish contract language for local implementing programs.
• Work collaboratively with HVS fiscal staff to ensure appropriate sub-recipient monitoring of the Local Implementing Agency (LIA).
• Sustain a positive, credible, professional, and interpersonal relationship with all state and local partners and always represent the best interest of MDHHS/MPHI.
• Participate in all appropriate LIA programmatic site visits.
• Work with HVS program staff to analyze and develop procedures to integrate evidence-based home visiting into the broader Early Childhood and Home Visiting Systems.
• Collaborate with key MDHHS and Michigan Public Health Institute staff to evaluate program measures, monitor the effectiveness of interventions, and support Continuous Quality Improvement efforts.
• Participate in conversations with the National model representatives to ensure a strong collaborative relationship.
• Contribute to the overall planning and implementation of the state’s Home Visiting system.
• Participate in grant development/writing as needed, conference planning, and other MHVI activities as identified by the manager.
• Participate in national and state advisories as requested or invited.
• Align activities with the HVS Child Welfare Coordinator and Substance Use Coordinator to support implementation of Thriving Futures.
• Support inclusion of representative parent voice as an equity strategy in all state and local grantee activities.
• Participate in all required state/MPHI training.
• Develop policies and procedures for grantees to support practices that include consideration of unique community variables and consider impact of those variables prior to implementation.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Education: Master’s degree in nursing, public health, or a related field.
• Experience: One year of experience in maternal and/or child health required. Three years’ professional experience in maternal and/or child health preferred. One year’s experience in prevention focused evidence-based home visiting required. Three years of professional experience in prevention-focused home visiting preferred.
• Experience: Experience providing leadership to other professionals or community groups via consultation, training, supervision, or administration is required.