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Access to Care (ATC) & Community Integrated Planning Manager

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Access to Care (ATC) & Community Integrated Planning Manager

Salary

$90,185.70 - $135,278.55 Annually

Location

Brighton, CO

Job Type

Regular Full-time

Job Number

07233

Department

Public Health Department

Division

Health Equity and Strategic Iniatives

Opening Date

11/06/2025

Closing Date

11/20/2025 4:30 PM Mountain

Our Mission

To responsibly serve the Adams County community with integrity and innovation.

EEO

Adams County is an equal opportunity employer. No person is unlawfully excluded from employment opportunities based on race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, marital status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Position classification

Hybrid -- Job duties and expectations allow for onsite and remote work scheduled every week. Employees in this classification are regularly scheduled onsite one (1) to four (4) days per week based on the County needs and as determined by Department Director. Hybrid classified roles can be onsite more than the set minimum based on employee preference.

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What Success Looks Like In This Job

The Access to Care and Community Integrated Planning Manager is a strategic leadership role within Adams County Health Department (ACHD) and the Strategic Health Initiatives (SHI) Division focused on transforming systems to improve community access to services while advancing comprehensive community-led planning efforts, including the development and implementation of ACHD’s Community Health Assessment (CHA), Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), and Community Engagement Plan. This position oversees the SHI Division’s Regional Health Connector, Community Health Worker program, Health Enrollment program, and Planning and Evaluation team and is responsible for supporting the operations of each program and ensuring alignment of strategies with community needs and priorities, current policies, and local, regional, and statewide partners.

Examples of Duties for Success

Leadership & Administration:

+ Provide strategic leadership for County-wide access-to-care initiatives through a Chief Health Strategist approach, ensuring strategies reduce barriers, improve fairness in health outcomes, and align with organizational and community priorities.

+ Oversee development and execution of the Community Health Assessment (CHA), Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), and Community Engagement Plan.

+ Support policy and systems change efforts in collaboration with ACHD’s Policy and Public Affairs team.

+ Maintains active working knowledge of policies, systems, and key players impacting access to care as well as frameworks, principles, and practices related to community engaged planning.

+ Strengthens organizational capacity through infrastructure development, technical assistance, workforce development, and evidence-informed strategies.

+ Leads ongoing opportunities to engage communities across ACHD work by developing the infrastructure, supports, resources, and tools for program staff to effectively develop and implement community-led initiatives so community input is integrated into all public health functions.

Management & Supervision:

+ Supervise and coach staff, fostering a collaborative, learning-oriented culture while ensuring accountability and effective performance management.

+ Provide guidance to staff on project management, change management, and community-integrated approaches to maximize program success.

+ Manage program budgets, contracts, and procurement processes, ensuring fiscal accountability, transparency, and community alignment.

Planning & Evaluation:

+ Provides leadership and technical assistance to ACHD divisions and programs on design models for planning, assessments, evaluation, and qualitative data collection and analysis to assure capacity of ACHD staff to naturally integrate planning, assessment, and evaluation into their work and report on overall progress of goals

+ Leads the ACHD Community Health Assessment (CHA) and Community Engagement Plan

+ Provides strategic direction and oversight for a collective impact approach to the development and implementation of the ACHD Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), and serves as project manager overseeing execution of CHIP.

+ Collaborates with the Epidemiology and Data Science Division to ensure a thorough, ongoing process integrating continual monitoring of population health and community engagement to inform ACHD work. Establishes short, mid, and long term performance metrics to monitor progress over time to align with the Performance Management and Quality Improvement (PM/QI) team.

+ Serves as the primary liaison for ACHD in multidisciplinary health planning teams across Adams County and the state to identify and interpret trends in population health, identify emerging issues, and monitor progress in improving population health, while assuring integration of community voice to inform the work.

Partnerships & Community Engagement

+ Build and sustain partnerships with health systems, providers, funders, community organizations, and other County departments to coordinate strategies and prevent service gaps.

+ Lead community-engaged planning efforts to ensure authentic community voice informs decision-making, program design, and goal setting.

+ Serve as a visible representative and advocate for access-to-care and community integrated planning initiatives, including presentations to leadership, boards, and other interested and impacted community partners.

+ Represent ACHD on local and state health planning committees to address emerging issues and ensure coordinated, community-informed strategies.

+ Performs other related duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Emergency Preparedness and Response Duties: Completes trainings identified as appropriate for this level employee. Employee participates in all exercises and drills on emergency preparedness and response, as required. Employee responds, as required, to support emergencies, incidents and events with a public health and medical impact.

HIPAA Statement: Maintain sensitive & confidential client information according to the HIPAA policy confidentiality requirements.

Qualifications for Success

+ A strong understanding of the public health model for community change, including policy, systems, and environmental change.

+ A strong understanding of health systems and policies, insurance programs, and service navigation.

+ Understanding of social determinants of health and their impact upon community health and wellbeing.

+ Experience implementing community health assessment and public health improvement planning frameworks such as the Colorado Health Assessment and Planning System (CHAPS), Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP), State Health Improvement Planning (SHIP), and Community Health Assessment and Group Evaluation (CHANGE).

+ Strong ability to assess needs and capacity of communities, including the facilitation of community dialogues and prioritization processes for identifying community health priorities.

+ Familiarity with or willingness to learn public health insurance application processes.

+ Strong understanding of community engagement best practices for a variety of different communities.

+ Familiarity with the underlying factors that lead to unfair health outcomes and how to address them through partnerships, programs, system transformation, and policy.

+ Experience applying strategies and tools to effectively lead teams through complex project management, change management, and the application of complex policy and systems change frameworks to advance community-driven initiatives.

+ Demonstrated ability to accurately scope out length and difficulty of tasks and projects, set goals and objectives, breakdown process into steps and develop project plans within and across the organization.

+ Demonstrated ability to create climate in which people want to do their best, can motivate many kinds of team members, and can support each person to be their very best through open dialogue and shared ownership.

+ Demonstrated ability to facilitate dialogue among a broad range of audiences to advance a common understanding and shared priorities.

+ Demonstrated ability to identify and engage unique partnerships to advance public health.

+ Experience looking at trends and patterns in services to inform community health strategy.

+ Ability to adjust to changing organizational and political environments to achieve intended goals of the work.

+ Extensive experience addressing unfair health outcomes across different settings and speaking to the systemic factors associated with access to care and community engaged planning initiatives.

More Qualifications for Success

Experience:

+ At least five years of progressively responsible experience in public health, social determinants of health (SDoH), community health, or social work.

+ Includes a minimum of three years of supervisory or team leadership experience, guiding diverse teams toward shared and sustainable outcomes.

Education & Training:

+ Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in public health, public policy, public administration, sociology, social work, or a closely related field; OR

+ Bachelor’s degree in one of the fields listed above, plus at least seven years of professional experience, including three years of supervisory or team leadership experience guiding diverse teams toward shared and sustainable outcomes.

License or Certificate: Possession of or the ability to obtain a valid CO Driver License

Background Check: Must pass a criminal background check.

Working Conditions and Physical Abilities:

+ This role remains in a semi-stationary position, often sitting or standing for prolonged periods of time.

+ Occasionally, this role will move about to accomplish tasks; and requires reliable transportation to drive from one worksite to another.

+ This position’s physical demands are assessed to be light work that includes moving objects from 14 pounds to lifting supplies up to 50 pounds.

+ This role constantly communicates with others.

+ Requires sufficient writing ability to communicate fluidly and accurately in grant proposals and program reports.

+ This position can expect no adverse environmental conditions as work is performed in an office building.

Adams County complies with Colorado’s Job Application Fairness Act (“JAFA”). JAFA prohibits employers from asking individuals to disclose their age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation on an initial employment application. However, additional application materials such as certifications and transcripts containing this information may be required for certain positions; if such additional materials are requested, applicants may redact information that identifies the applicant’s age, date of birth, or dates or attendance or graduation.

Adams County provides a comprehensive benefits package to employees that goes above and beyond what is offered at most organizations.

Clickhere (https://youtu.be/ILAvllPaGb4) to watch our video about why Adams County is an Employer of Choice!

Benefits You Expect:

+ AFLAC Supplemental Medical Insurance

+ Basic Term Life & Optional Term Life Insurance

+ Deferred Compensation Plan

+ Dental/Vision/Medical Plans

+ Generous Vacation/Sick leave

+ Long-Term Disability

+ Retirement Plan

+ Short-Term Disability

Plus some you might not expect:

+ Employee Assistance Program

+ Employee Fitness Center

+ Employee Health Clinics

+ Flexible Work Schedules

+ Recreation Center Discounts

+ Training & Tuition Reimbursement Programs

+ Wellness programs

+ Lactation friendly certified workplace

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Please be aware that your cover letter and resume will not be accessed in the initial screening process, so you must complete your application and supplemental questions with as much detail as possible. Any personally identifiable information (PII) such as name and address will be redacted from applications that meet the minimum screening requirements and are forwarded to the hiring manager. If the hiring manager selects you to advance in the hiring process, your cover letter and resume will then be accessible to the hiring team. Information provided on the application is used to determine if a candidate meets minimum qualifications. Only information provided at the time of the application being completed will be considered and additional information that is not listed on the application will not be considered when deciding if a candidate meets or does not meet the qualifications. Applicants are STRONGLY encouraged to include all information and details on their application. I understand and agree that only information provided at the time of my application will be used to determine if I meet the minimum requirements for this position.

+ Yes, I understand and agree

+ Yes, I understand but disagree.

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Please select how you meet the minimum experience and education requirements for this position.

+ 7 years of progressively responsible experience in public health, social determinants of health (SDoH), community health, or social work AND Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in public health, public policy, public administration, sociology, social work, or a closely related field.

+ 5 years progressively responsible experience in public health, social determinants of health (SDoH), community health, or social work AND Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in public health, public policy, public administration, sociology, social work, or a closely related field.

+ None of the above

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Do you possess a minimum of three years of supervisory or team leadership experience?

+ Yes

+ No

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Do you currently possess or the ability to obtain a valid Colorado Driver License?

+ Yes

+ No

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Describe a time you provided strategic direction for a community-based cross-sector initiative aimed at improving access to care. What steps did you take to align partners, address systemic barriers, and measure progress towards shared goals?

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This role requires leadership in both team development and performance management. How do you approach mentorship and professional development for your direct reports, especially in a cross-functional, collaborative environment?

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This position is responsible for providing strategic direction and oversight for the ACHD Community Health Assessment, Community Health Improvement Plan, and Community Engagement Plan. Describe your experience developing or managing similar community-integrated planning or assessment processes. How did you ensure authentic community voice and participation?

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Employer

Adams County

Address

4430 S. Adams County Parkway, Suite C4000BBrighton, Colorado, 80601-8213

Website

http://www.adcogov.org/current-career-opportunities

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