PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATOR 2 - 67847

Executive Service

This position is designed as hybrid.

Background Check: This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Who we are and what we do:

TDH incorporates our values into the work we do each day to achieve our mission, live our vision and address our strategic priorities.

Mission: Protect, promote, and improve the health and well-being of all people in Tennessee.

Vision: Healthy People, Healthy Communities, Healthy Tennessee.

Our Values: Trust, Compassion, Service Excellence.

Strategic Priorities: Prevention, Access, Efficiency, Engagement, Equity, Workforce, Excellence, Innovation.

How you make a difference in this role:

Under direction, the Public Health Administrator 2 position is responsible for providing complete program oversight for the following statewide programs within the Maternal Health Section including, Presumptive Eligibility (PE), Family Planning (FP), Maternal Health Innovation (MHI), Maternal Deaths Due to Violence (MVD), Maternal Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder (MMHSUD), Maternal Mortality Review (MMR), and the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) program. Oversight will include organizing, planning, directing, and managing programs to ensure compliance with all State, Federal, and funding guidelines, as well as leading strategic planning efforts and cultivating strong internal and external partnerships to advance program goals.

Job Overview:

An employee in this class supervises a multidisciplinary team responsible for managing multiple large statewide grants and initiatives related to maternal health, reproductive health, and adolescent health. The employee is responsible for strategic program alignment, fiscal oversight, staff supervision, health equity advancement, and partnership development across all assigned programs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide complete program oversight for Presumptive Eligibility, Family Planning, Maternal Health Innovation, Maternal Deaths Due to Violence, Maternal Mental Health and Substance
• Use Disorder, Maternal Mortality Review, and Sexual Risk Avoidance Education programs within Maternal Health.
• Supervise team members working across these programs, including program, technical, and administrative staff.
• Prepare, implement, and oversee strategic plans to ensure alignment with program, division, and department priorities, including advancing the goals of the Tennessee Maternal Health Strategic Plan.
• Partner with program directors to assess and modify program strategies based on performance data and emerging public health needs.
• Oversee all fiscal activities related to assigned programs, including budgeting, grant management, contract monitoring, spenddowns, and compliance with all State and Federal funding requirements.
• Build and strengthen strategic partnerships internally (across TDH) and externally (with healthcare providers, community organizations, advocacy groups, and national partners).
• Assist program directors in recruiting, developing, and maintaining partnerships that align with strategic programmatic goals and help drive outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with Maternal Health epidemiologists to monitor program data, evaluate program effectiveness, and inform continuous quality improvement efforts.
• Represent programs in meetings, trainings, advisory groups, and conferences as needed, ensuring that program activities and successes are communicated effectively to stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education and Experience differ for this executive service classification based on the needs of the department. This might include a bachelor's degree in a health or science field, a master's degree in business administration, Public Health Administration of Health Planning, experience with statewide leadership or directing all functions of a public health program as a whole.

Desired Experience:

• Experience equivalent to substantial (five or more years) full-time, increasingly responsible professional public health program work, including at least two years of full-time supervisory or statewide program oversight experience.
• At least two years of supervisory experience in a public health, clinical, or healthcare-related setting is required.
• Experience with strategic planning, partnership development, and grant oversight strongly preferred.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.