Program Coordinator-IHPC

The Inova Healthy Plate Club (IHPC) is looking for a dedicated Program Coordinator to join our team. This role is Part-Time (28 hours/week), some evenings and weekends required.

IHPC is a community health program reaching K-7th grade students in under-resourced areas both virtually and in-person. Through creative taste tests, hands-on cooking, and nutrition education, IHPC works to increase vegetable consumption among children who attend Title 1 schools or who are eligible for free and reduced lunch.

Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

Featured Benefits:

• Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
• Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions - starting on your first day.
• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
• Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
• Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave

Job Responsibilities:

The Program Coordinator demonstrates strong communication, interpersonal, facilitation, and team building skills in order to work effectively with customers and other members of the healthcare team to provide direction for clinical practice. Coordinates the program in order to ensure maximum effectiveness while managing and developing service line teams. Identifies trends applicable to the target population in order to better coordinate programs, establish priorities, and improve services. Develops, trains, organizes, schedules, implements, supervises and/or evaluates the program or programs. Maintains knowledge of specific fields and identifies national trends as they apply to the population served.

• Promotes the program, increases participation, and evaluates program goals in collaboration with departmental staff, Marketing, and other applicable departments and community organizations.
• Plans and coordinates events and services. Works with the team to promote programs through marketing plans, materials, collateral, and activities.
• Develops, trains, organizes, schedules, implements, supervises, and/or evaluates the program or programs.
• Tracks, reports, and presents various data to include patient satisfaction and outcome data specific to the service line and develops performance improvement plans as necessary.
• Acts as a Liaison between staff, interdisciplinary team members, patients, families, hospitals and clinics.
• Ensures education of staff in various departments and maintains education records. Facilitates product/trials and evaluation/selection of equipment. Evaluates and selects appropriate equipment and supplies required specific to the service line patient population.
• Facilitates and coordinates patient education per service line.
• Participates in professional educational and training opportunities to further develop professional competence and improve program effectiveness. Identifies appropriate list serves, association newsletters, and/or peer review literature sources to maintain knowledge of changes in policies, technologies, and other innovations affecting the field of practice. Identifies national trends as they apply to the population served to coordinate programs and establish service priorities.
• Maintains COE/certification, regulatory/legislative compliance, and knowledge of specific field. Coordinates regular physician meetings for key physicians in the service line and potential physicians to identify concerns and develop process improvement cycles to improve service, achieve/maintain COE/program certification, and ensure compliance with regulatory/legislative guidelines.
• Coordinate extensive volunteer network.
• Teach Inova Healthy Plate Club curriculum at schools, health fairs, community centers and other related events.
• Coordinate aspects of in-person and virtual classes, including the preparation of materials and supplies.
• Represent Inova at community meetings.
• Input data and track and analyze metrics; prepare reports.
• Develop relationships with community stakeholders and secure health promotion event opportunities.
• Organize, inventory and order supplies; wash and sanitize equipment.
• Support the development of new projects and programs for the Inova Healthy Plate Club
• Require some traveling/floating to other locations to provide support as needed
• May perform additional duties as assigned.

Additional Requirements:

• Work Schedule: Part-Time (28 hours/week), some evenings and weekends are required.
• Education: Bachelor's in nursing, health, education, social work, public administration or other related field; or HS Diploma/GED and an additional 4 years of relevant experience; or Associate's degree and an additional 2 years of relevant experience.
• Experience: Two years of experience in developing, implementing and coordinating programs or projects.
• Certification: As required by specific program
• Licensure: As required by specific program