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Community Integrated Planning Senior Advisor - 165473

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Community Integrated Planning Senior Advisor - 165473

Salary

$82,709.56 - $119,928.86 Annually

Location

Brighton, CO

Job Type

Regular Full-time

Job Number

07281

Department

Public Health Department

Division

Health Equity and Strategic Iniatives

Opening Date

01/07/2026

Closing Date

1/14/2026 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

This position is in Adams County Health Department (ACHD) Division of Strategic Health Initiatives (SHI). SHI prevents disease and advances fair health outcomes through community-based health promotion, policy and systems changes. Reporting to the Access to Care and Community Integrated Planning Manager, the Community Integrated Planning Senior Advisor plays a pivotal role in leading collaborative, data-drive, and community-centered assessment and planning efforts that inform ACHD’s strategic priorities. This position provides advanced public health planning and project management expertise to guide the development and implementation of the ACHD Community Health Assessment (CHA), Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), and Community Engagement (CE) Plan, ensuring shared leadership and share accountability across all divisions of ACHD as well as other partnering Adams County departments.

In partnership with ACHD’s Epidemiology and Data Science Division, and under the strategic direction and oversight of the Access to Care and Community Integrated Planning Manager, this position is responsible for coordinating county-wide and regional planning processes that strengthen partnerships, advance fair health outcomes, and authentically embed community voice into decision-making. The Community Integrated Planning Senior Advisor also serves as a liaison with internal and external partners, including community organizations, hospitals and health systems, and local and state agencies, to ensure alignment, integration, and shared leadership and accountability in community health planning and evaluation efforts.

Examples of Duties for Success

Leadership and Public Health Advanced Practice:

+ Serves as the project manager for the design and implementation of the department-wide CHA, CHIP, and CE Plan process, ensuring integration of evidence-based and community-informed methodologies as well as best practices for collective impact and change management

+ Serve as a subject matter expert and provide technical assistance across the department in community health assessments and planning, data analysis, evaluation and survey design, and population health improvement frameworks

+ Collaborate with the Performance Management and Quality Improvement Team to develop and manage performance measures and evaluation tools that monitor quality of and progress toward CHIP and CE Plan goals and inform department-wide progress

+ Assesses current state of various health and social determinants topics, translates public health data and community insights into actional recommendations for policy and systems change, and designs opportunities to collaborate within ACHD and align with community identified priorities through a collective impact approach

+ Supports alignment of ACHD CHA/CHIP and CE Plan with the ACHD Strategic Plan, priorities of collaborating Adams County departments and broader Adams County communities, and statewide public health improvement priorities

+ Provides capacity-building support and technical assistance to ACHD programs on community-integrated planning and evaluation practices

+ Effectively manages resource development and resource allocation, including grant writing and the management of budgets and contracts

Collaboration and Community Engagement:

+ Cultivates and sustains partnerships with community-based organizations, residents, local jurisdictions, health systems, and cross-sector partners (including other Adams County departments) with humility and in culturally responsive ways to ensure community-integrated health planning

+ Facilitate community engagement strategies that center community voice, lived experience and expertise, and accessible participation opportunities to ensure decision-making process and approach that fully involve impacted communities.

+ Uses public health and community engagement models to identify community health needs, priorities, assets and gaps.

+ Facilitates collaborative models for community health improvement using both collective impact and process improvement facilitation to leverage existing community efforts and strengths.

+ Represents ACHD on regional and state committees to coordinate community health assessments and identify shared priorities

Communication and Facilitation:

+ Designs and facilitates planning sessions, community forums, workgroups, and data collection opportunities such as focus groups that support and encourage authentic community engagement and consensus-building

+ Effectively translates and presents complex public health data, strategies, findings, and recommendations through meaningful narratives to various audiences, including community partners, ACHD leadership, County leadership, and other elected officials to support advocacy, transparency, and informed decision-making

+ Manages multiple projects at one time by using project scopes of work and tracking tools to maintain accountability. Maintains productivity standards and practices effective time management and prioritization of tasks.

+ Maintains active working knowledge of public health advanced practice, including the social determinants of health, community outreach and partnership development, population-based health promotion, disease prevention, coalition building, and collective impact.

+ Compiles and interprets data, makes recommendations on quality improvement; and assists with design and implementation of systems/programs.

+ Creates clear and accessible reports, presentations, dashboard, and other communication tools to share progress and outcomes with interest-holders.

+ Models effective communication that promotes trust, collaboration, and shared accountability among internal and external partners

Commitment to the Community

+ Commits to a learning mindset and continuous improvement regarding the practice of community engagement in all aspects of work within Adams County and ACHD, including management style, work style, training, and communication.

+ Regularly assesses work and supports changes to remove systemic barriers and build systems that address unfair outcomes

+ Creates and maintains partnerships and processes that support and integrate practices that center community needs and ensure fair opportunities into all aspects of Adams County Health Department work.

+ Prioritizes transparency and supports an open door culture

+ Integrates community driven work that addresses system-level barriers and fosters fair opportunities into internal and external goal setting.

Additional duties:

+ Performs other duties as assigned and required.

+ Responds, as required, to support public health emergencies, incidents, and events.

+ Participates in all emergency preparedness exercises and drills, as required.

+ Completes emergency preparedness and response trainings, as appropriate, as appropriate, within the health department.

+ Maintains sensitive & confidential client information according to the HIPAA confidentiality requirements.

Supervisory Responsibility:

+ None.

Qualifications for Success

Knowledge of:

+ Social determinants of health, their impact upon health, and strategies to address them within community settings.

+ Public health surveillance data and how to use them to plan and evaluate public health efforts.

+ Techniques and best practices related to community engagement, coalition building and developing community partnerships.

+ Community needs assessment, program development, and evaluation techniques.

+ Population health policy, prevention, and systems change strategies as well as community planning elements that protect public health and facilitate healthy behaviors and access to basic services

+ Microsoft operating system computer, Internet and spreadsheet functions and resources.

+ Colorado Public Health Assessment and Planning Systems (CHAPS)

+ 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

More Qualifications for Success

Education & Experience:

+ A master’s degree in public or environmental health, public policy, sociology, planning, evaluation, or a related field AND three (3) years of related experience with progressively increasing responsibility,

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+ A bachelor’s degree in the same fields and five (5) years of related experience with progressively increasing responsibility.

Special Qualifications:

+ Must be proficient in use of online meeting platforms and Microsoft Office tools including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

+ Reliable transportation is required to get to different community meeting locations as needed.

+ Bilingual preferred.

+ Must pass a criminal background check

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements

Work is primarily conducted indoors with occasional time spent in an outside environment. Incumbent will experience routine exposure to hazards of a typical office environment. Requires travel between Adams County offices and to locations in the surrounding community for investigations and meetings. May be required to work outside regular hours to attend meetings or events.

+ Requires sufficient ability to communicate in response to inquiries, to conduct needs assessments and evaluations, and to speak with groups of people in presentations.

+ Requires sufficient writing ability to fluidly and accurately communicate needs in program development.

+ Requires ability to operate computer equipment

+ Requires the ability to perform administrative and computer work for significant periods of time.

Adams County and the 17th Judicial District Attorney's Office 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.

+ A master’s degree in public or environmental health, public policy, sociology, planning, evaluation, or a related field AND three (3) years of related experience with progressively increasing responsibility.

+ A bachelor’s degree in the same fields AND five (5) years of related experience with progressively increasing responsibility.

+ None of the above.

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For this position, you must be proficient in using online meeting platforms and Microsoft Office tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Do you meet this requirement?

+ 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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For this position, you are required to have reliable transportation, as you will need to travel to various community meeting locations as needed. Do you meet this requirement?

+ Yes

+ No

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This role leads the countywide Community Health Assessment, Community Health Improvement Plan, and Community Engagement Plan. Please describe your experience with similar community-integrated planning or assessment processes and how you would engage key partners to ensure authentic community voice. If applicable, include any existing collaborations or relationships you have in Adams County.

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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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