Program Specialist

Job Summary:

Please note: This position is located in Richmond, CA.

As a core member of California’s Tuberculosis (TB) Control Branch, the Program Specialist (PS) applies high-level professional skills and subject matter expertise to lead a wide variety of highly visible activities in the Tuberculosis Control Branch, California Department of Public Health. The position provides administrative and strategic leadership and analysis for complex and diverse projects to the Branch Chief and others including monitoring progress in real-time on complex initiatives, independent high-level communications for scheduling and responding to executives in other agencies, developing presentations and highly visible and/or sensitive communications and correspondence, including documents of a highly technical nature. The position requires extensive leadership and independent action in diverse functions, tact and diplomacy in an effort to navigate and communicate within complex and highly sensitive areas internally and outside of the Branch.

The PS will design and develop a variety of critical reports and communication materials, produce executive summaries, resolve a variety of issues, assist staff in gathering data and information and leads and independently executes responses to a variety of governmental requests in a busy environment with competing deadlines; also performs routine office work. The PS will serve as the lead for TB elimination and health equity communications and developing and tracking these efforts for the TB Control Branch.

Please note:  This position is based in Richmond, CA and offers a hybrid work environment including both remote and office centered work. The standard for hybrid work is a minimum of four days per week in-person and up to one teleworking day per week. The amount of telework is at the discretion of the Department’s operational business needs and subject to change at any time consistent with the CDPH Telework Program.

Starting salary range is $75,600

Department Overview:

UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS) is dedicated to improving health and reducing the burden of disease in the world’s most vulnerable populations. It integrates UCSF expertise in all of the health, social, and biological sciences, and focuses that expertise on pressing issues in global health. IGHS works with partners in countries throughout the world to achieve these aims. IGHS seeks to improve health worldwide, especially in developing countries, through research that informs policy. IGHS is committed to ensuring a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment as we work towards becoming an anti-racist organization. We strongly encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. Please see our statement on anti-racism here: https://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/about-us/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/statement-structural-racism.

One of IGHS’s many partners is the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). The CDPH mission is to advance the health and well-being of California's diverse people and communities. This position will be part of a team focused the prevention and control of tuberculosis in California, reducing health disparities in populations most impacted by TB, and providing leadership and resources to support California’s 61 local health jurisdictions.