Community Engagement Development Coordinator

Job Summary:

The purpose of this position is to support the Department's community engagement and advocacy efforts. This position is responsible for assisting in establishing, implementing, and evaluating the Department's community engagement strategy, plan, goals, and programming in collaboration with the Vice Chair for Community Engagement and Advocacy, the Department Administrator, faculty, staff, and clinics' existing community leads and Patient Advisory Committees. This individual will prioritize long-term, community-centered relationship building and have experience engaging with communities to facilitate connections for clinics in a cross-clinic health justice model with the purpose of facilitating authentic power-sharing relationships with patients, their families, and wider communities.

Detailed responsibilities include:

Community Relationships: 60%:

• Help to ensure the Department's community engagement efforts are grounded in participatory practices of trust, mutual respect, shared power, and different ways of knowing.
• Maintain relationships with current patients and existing community partners.
• Cultivate meaningful collaborations with geographically located community organizations and members who do not currently receive care at, or have a relationship with, department clinics.
• Assist community organizations/stakeholders in identifying and developing authentic and trustworthy partnerships with DFMCH, and UMP/M Health Fairview.
• Partner with UMP practice management resources and utilize reporting for the clinical service unit (CSU) to ensure optimization of faculty clinical practice

Internal and Organizational Relationship Building: 20%:

• Assist with internal and organizational relationship building across UMP, M Health Fairview and UMN DFMCH to best support DFMCH's community engagement and policy mission.
• Collaborate with other UMN and M Health Fairview engagement units around mutual engagement opportunities, assuring the alignment of work, and identifying new and ongoing opportunities.

Training: 20%:

• Contribute to, align, and help to deliver trainings for department faculty, residents, staff, and community partners that further develop and deepen the understanding of and adherence to equity-empowered community engagement strategies, practices, and governance.
• Coordinate with the Vice Chairs for DEI and Education to embed this education in the Departmental Community Health Course and align the course content with the residency and clinic specific community engagement education and care.

All required qualifications must be documented on application materials.

Required Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree plus at least four years of experience, or a combination of education and related experience to total eight years.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience working independently and as part of a diverse team.
• Experience establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with varied groups.
• Work style that is self-motivated, adaptive, and that includes the ability to fulfill a variety of functions within a team-matrix environment without direct supervision.
• Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends as needed.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge and experience in conducting community engagement activities in a healthcare or nonprofit setting.
• Experience giving public presentations and facilitating meetings.
• Ability to recognize and address issues of equality/equity and social justice.

The Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota was created more than 50 years ago in response to a legislative mandate to train primary care physicians. Since then, we have been leaders in transforming the specialty through education, research, and patient care. We are the academic sponsor of seven family medicine residencies-five in the Twin Cities, two in Greater Minnesota. We are involved in medical student education activities across the Medical School's two campuses: Twin Cities and Duluth. We sponsor five fellowship programs-sports medicine, hospice and palliative medicine, behavioral medicine, clinical informatics, and human sexuality- and offer continuing medical education opportunities. We are regularly among the top National Institutes of Health-funded family medicine departments. Our faculty are actively researching health disparities, healthcare delivery, and population health. More at https://med.umn.edu/familymedicine.

Pay Range: $33.05 to $37.50 per hour, we anticipate most offers will be around the midpoint of this range, depending on education and experience.

Time Appointment: 100% Appointment

Position Type: Civil-Service

Please visit the Office of Human Resources website for more information regarding benefit eligibility.

The University offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Competitive wages, paid holidays, and generous time off
• Continuous learning opportunities through professional training and degree-seeking programs supported by the Regents Tuition Benefit Program
• Low-cost medical, dental, pharmacy and disability plans
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• University HSA contributions
• Employer-paid life insurance
• Employee wellbeing program
• Excellent retirement plans with employer contribution
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) opportunity
• Financial counseling services
• Employee Assistance Program with eight sessions of counseling at no cost
• Employee Transit Pass with free or reduced rates in the Twin Cities metro area

Applications must be submitted online. To be considered for this position, please click the Apply button and follow the instructions. You will be given the opportunity to complete an online application for the position and attach a cover letter and resume.

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The University recognizes and values the importance of diversity and inclusion in enriching the employment experience of its employees and in supporting the academic mission. The University is committed to attracting and retaining employees with varying identities and backgrounds.

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The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (UMTC)

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (UMTC), is among the largest public research universities in the country, offering undergraduate, graduate, and professional students a multitude of opportunities for study and research. Located at the heart of one of the nation's most vibrant, diverse metropolitan communities, students on the campuses in Minneapolis and St. Paul benefit from extensive partnerships with world-renowned health centers, international corporations, government agencies, and arts, nonprofit, and public service organizations.

At the University of Minnesota, we are proud to be recognized by the Star Tribune as a Top Workplace for 2021, as well as by Forbes as Best Employers for Women and one of America's Best Employers (2015, 2018, 2019, 2023), Best Employer for Diversity (2019, 2020), Best Employer for New Grads (2018, 2019), and Best Employer by State (2019, 2022).