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Oregon Medicaid Community Engagement VISTA (Portland)
ORGANIZATION: Oregon Health Authority
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This position joins Oregon Health Authority’s statewide AmeriCorps VISTA team. In addition to activities at your individual site, each member receives additional orientation, training throughout the year, team meetings, and the support of the team leaders and project director based at the state public health agency. For more information about the Oregon Health Authority AmeriCorps VISTA Partnership Project, please visit: http://healthoregon.org/vista. Selections are made on a rolling basis and early applications are strongly encouraged. The last day to submit an application is June 12, 2024. The Medicaid Policy Unit within Oregon Health Authority (OHA) , serves approximately 1.4 million Oregon Health Plan (OHP) members benefitting from Oregon's Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program. OHP members are from all walks of life including working families, children, pregnant adults, single adults, individuals with disabilities, and seniors. Each day at OHA, you will work to enhance the OHP member experience alongside dedicated and thoughtful colleagues with the common goal of eliminating health inequities by 2030. The VISTA in this position will receive a monthly Portland Metro Area Trimet public transportation pass as well as ample opportunities to work & learn alongside Oregon Health Authority staff. The OHA AmeriCorps VISTA Partnership Project is committed to building a diverse workforce to strengthen our work in Oregon communities. We value applicants who can bring lived experience to further OHA’s strategic goal to eliminate health inequities by 2030. With the innovative public health work happening in Oregon, it is a wonderful place to explore a future in public health! This position will be a combination of in-person and hybrid work from home.
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About Oregon Health Authority
Location:
800 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR 97232, US
Mission Statement
The Oregon Health Authority AmeriCorps VISTA Partnership Project aims to alleviate, prevent and reduce poverty by engaging new public health professionals in a year of full-time service in major public health organizations to create or expand public health systems capacity. The project aims to reduce poverty in our communities by building sustainable public health programs and systems that ensure health equity, community resiliency and improved health outcomes.
Description
AmeriCorps VISTA members serve full-time, forty hours per week in a capacity building role in statewide organizations, local public health departments, Tribal governments or non-profits across the state of Oregon. Our members serve in areas of: community partnership development, health equity, volunteer recruitment and training, fundraising, communication and marketing, communicable disease prevention, and more. Work is done in an indirect service and capacity building role in a professional office setting and there are many opportunities for training and professional development. AmeriCorps members with OHA focus their efforts on bulding the organizational, administrative, and financial capacity of organizations that improve health services. They develop programs to meet a need, write grants, and recruit and train volunteers.
In August 2019 the OHA AmeriCorps VISTA Partnership Project celebrated it's 10th year and conducted a program evaluation, culminating in a report A Summary Evaluation: Looking Back at Ten Years of Individual, Organizational, and System-Level Impacts (2009 - 2019). The evaluation explored the program’s impact on AmeriCorps members, the public health workforce, organizations AmeriCorps members serve with, public health systems AmeriCorps members have developed or reinforced, and poverty alleviation.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
800 NE Oregon StPortland, OR 97232
DATE POSTED
May 29, 2024
SKILLS
- Networking
- Organization
- Problem Solving
- Reading Comprehension
- Relationship Building
- Verbal / Written Communication
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 20
- Orientation or Training
- 1 year