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09/27/2024

Environmental Health Director

Canton City Public Health

Employment with the Canton City Public Health comes with a full array of benefits. We offer comprehensive health insurance, paid vacations, paid holidays, a retirement plan, and sick time.

Applicants must apply at governmentjobs.com. Applicants MUST submit a copy of a valid driver's license or other photo ID along with their application and any other pertinent documentation.

This is an open examination. To be eligible for this position, applicants must be a U.S. Citizen or have a permanent resident card. Applicants must be a High School graduate or possess a G.E.D. and be at least 18 years of age.

Salary: $72,894-$112,986

Job Description

Position Summary:
A member of Canton City Public Health senior management team, this position provides leadership, oversight, and program management for the Environmental Health service area, whose overarching goal is to protect the community’s health through the prevention and control of environmentally related communicable diseases and through the minimization of exposure to environmental health hazards. Examples of delivered programming includes (but is not limited to) food safety, private water systems, sewage treatment systems, rabies control, public health nuisance, school safety, campgrounds, body art and tattoos, vector-borne disease surveillance, pools and spas, and solid and infectious waste. This role oversees the research, funding, programming, and establishment of existing and new programming in this service area.  Ensures that all operations, budget, and programming in Environmental Health are conducted and monitored in a safe, timely, and efficient manner and in accordance with Ohio law, with a focus on customer and community service. The position performs with independence in decision-making and reports to the Health Commissioner.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Oversees all services and activities within assigned service area and identifies needs and opportunities to provide new services. Ensures service area compliance with all applicable department and legal requirements.
• Directs the day-to-day activities of environmental health staff including hiring, training, counseling, evaluating staff performance, and recommending discipline of staff. This includes operations and staffing of the Canton City Recycle Center.
• Assures that all staff are providing excellent customer service.
• Reviews and approves employee schedules and time off requests; review and approve daily logs, mileage logs, and expense reports.
• Prepares and monitors budgets (i.e. grant and general revenue budgets) and ensures compliance with department, city and other funding agency policies and guidelines.
• Authorizes purchase orders, invoicing, and payments to contractors for services.
• Provides administrative and fiscal oversight of programs and services within assigned program area.
• Identifies needs and opportunities to provide new programs or services. Identifies, compiles, drafts and applies for grant opportunities to sustain and grow programming. Tracks and meets grant deliverables and timeframes related to division programs.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable rules and statutes.
• Initiates corrective and enforcement actions for compliance deviations. Assumes responsibility for the development and implementation of needed policies and procedures.
• Monitors local, state, and federal regulatory changes. Notifies staff of any  changes in department or city policy or Ohio Revised or Administrative Code to maintain organizational compliance.
• Participates on the department leadership team and contributes to decisions on department issues, policies and strategic initiatives. Facilitates regular environmental health staff meetings for information sharing, team building and vision development. 
• Participates in the creation and execution of the department strategic plan. Monitors and evaluates performance of both strategic priorities and program goals through a data-driven approach.
• Participates in department accreditation planning processes and leads service area strategic planning processes.
• Participates in quality assurance and improvement activities.
• Conducts assessments of existing programs and services to ensure alignment with department, local, state, and national public health priorities.
• Develops and maintains relationships with community stakeholders, city department heads, and local and state public health organizations.
• Engages in networking activities with external public and private sector organizations.
• Represents department on local, regional, and statewide committees or work groups.
• Participates in the legislative process as needed. Responds to media requests when requested.
• Analyzes public health trends and makes recommendations to the Health Commissioner.
• Develops and revises job positions/descriptions to meet changing program needs. Collaborates with Health Commissioner in developing long-range staffing and organizational plans to facilitate proactive changes and meet the needs of the community.
• Develops and delivers recommendations to the Commissioner and Board.
• Develops and extracts reports from various data sources for delivery to internal and external customers.
• Gathers and organizes documents to satisfy public records requests or other reporting obligations.
• Collaborates with leaders from other program areas to coordinate unified and effective responses to any public health emergency or investigation.
• Serves on the department Incident Command System (ICS) team, and assists in identifying necessary emergency response roles and protocols for identified service area staff.
• Provides appropriate staff preparedness training as needed.
• Provides support functions in response to public health emergencies as directed by the Health Commissioner.

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed.  The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.

Minimum Qualifications and Credentials:

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health, Sciences, Business Administration, Public Health Administration, or related field.
• Current registration as an Environmental Health Specialist in Ohio. 
• Minimum of five years of public health program administration experience with demonstrating an increase in responsibility.
• Two years of leadership/managerial experience, including responsibility of staff supervision.
• Expert knowledge and application of public health laws, practices and policies. 
• Strong working knowledge of Ohio Revised Code and demonstrated knowledge of applicable regulatory standards and policies.
• Expert providing excellent customer service, verbal and written communication skills, and presentation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal relationship skills and experience serving communities through a lens of cultural competency. 
• Mathematical aptitude necessary to develop budgets and monitor expenditures.
• Individual should embrace the mission, vision and values of Canton City Public Health.
• Valid Driver’s License.

Work Environment

• Performance of duties requires frequent sitting, hearing, and eye/hand/foot coordination. Will include driving of passenger vehicles. 
• Frequent talking is required along with occasional engagement in repetitive motions.
• Duties will involve representing the department favorability in public settings such as meetings, workgroups, presentations, and as a public spokesperson to the media. 
• Performance of primary duties takes place in a regular office environment with occasional exposure to adverse environmental conditions.
• Primary duties will include working outdoors with potential exposure to inclement weather, trip hazards, and other environmental exposures.
• Will require frequent adjustments to a typical work schedule to accommodate the needs of the community (nights and weekends). 
• Requires occasional travel outside of the area and overnight for training, meetings and conferences. 
• City vehicle can be provided for work activities/work travel with supervisor approval. 

Benefits
This position takes part in a pension plan from the Ohio Public Employment Retirement System. Eligible for insurance (medical, dental, vision, life), paid sick leave, paid vacation and paid holidays. 

     Testing Information

SHOULD TEN OR FEWER QUALIFIED APPLICATION BE RECEIVED, AN EXAMINATION MAY NOT BE REQUIRED UNLESS TESTING IN NEEDED TO MERGE APPLICANTS ONTO AN EXISTING LIST. NAMES WILL BE PLACED ON AN ELIGIBILITY LIST IN ACCORADANCE WITH THEIR APPLICATION FILING DATE. SHOULD MORE THAN TEN QUALIFIED APPLICANTS REGISTER FOR THIS EXAMINATION THOSE APPLICANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED OF THE FORMAT, LOCATION, DATE, AND TIME OF THE EXAMINATION.

RATING
Your name will be placed on a list of eligible candidates upon receiving a passing score. Once the list has been established, your name will remain on the list for a period of one (1) year.

     Additional Information

*DISCLAIMER*

All applicants should receive an email from noreply@governmentjobs.com confirming that their application was received. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please contact Civil Service at jobs@cantonohio.gov to confirm that your application went through.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO VETERANS
As provided in ORC 124.23C, any person who has completed service in the uniformed services, who have been honorably discharged from the uniformed services or transferred to the reserve with evidence of satisfactory service, and who is an Ohio resident and any member of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including the Ohio National Guard, who has completed more than 180 days of active duty service pursuant to an executive order of the President of the United States or an act of Congress of the United States may file with the director a certificate of service or honorable discharge (DD-214 – Long version), and upon this filing, the person shall receive an additional credit of twenty percent (20%) of the person’s total grade given in the examination in which the person receives a passing grade.
   
A member in good standing of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including the Ohio National Guard, who successfully completes the member’s initial entry-level training shall receive a credit of fifteen percent (15%) of the person’s total grade given in the examination in which the person receives a passing grade.
 
NOTICE OF DRUG TESTING REQUIREMENT
Pursuant to Civil Service Rules applicants are hereby advised that the position of employment being examined for MAY be subject to a drug test. The results of the drug test may affect the hiring status of any candidate in consideration.
 
NOTICE OF BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION
Be advised that candidates MAY be subjected to a confidential background investigation, including, but not limited to, a criminal record check and driving record check.

ADA COMPLIANCE
Reasonable accommodation in accordance with ADA Compliance will be made available upon request to those qualified applicants in need of it, in order to achieve the essential job functions as described above.
 
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for appointment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, political affiliation, age, type of disability, or any other non-merit factor.

At the City of Canton, we are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. 

BY ORDER OF THE CANTON CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

 Rachel A. Forchione, Director

Anna M. Moeglin, Assistant Director

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