AmeriCorps Member – Special Events Coordinator

Job Description Summary:

Job Description:

Healthy Communities is CHC’s AmeriCorps program designed to create cohesion in vulnerable communities and to promote healthcare and support services through outreach, awareness, linkage to care and support. Healthy Communities also serves to identify the unique and integral needs of our communities and neighborhoods and to establish strategic plans to address them. Service delivery will directly address the public health crisis in vulnerable communities and make healthcare and support services accessible through flexible delivery of services. AmeriCorps members will conduct community outreach, education, patient engagement, and link patients to CHCI care and referrals to community based assistance. Additionally, AmeriCorps members will participate in statewide and local activities which promote awareness of health and health services.

This is an AmeriCorps Member role – Special Events Coordinator – that supports the Communications Department in Middletown and throughout CT. 

Terms & Program Benefits:

• One-year service term from September 8, 2026 thru August 31, 2027
• Serve a minimum of 33 hours a week for a total of 1700 hours during service year
• $25,000 stipend over the course of one year, paid bi-weekly
• An education award of $7,395 at the end of successful service term completion
• This is not a staff position.

This is the opportunity for you if you:

• Possess a positive energetic attitude
• Enjoy working with people
• Are extremely organized and pay great attention to detail
• Have a strong interest in public relations
• Thrive in a fast paced environment
• Can take initiative and work independently as well as part of a team

As a Special Events Coordinator for the Community Health Center, Inc., you will:

• Conduct monthly patient health education workshops; monitor the completion of pre-post surveys by workshop participants; and complete data entry of workshops and surveys.
• Track and document all completed patient engagement activities in patient’s electronic health record.
• Serve across organization to identify and maintain calendar of events from all CHC departments, sites, schools, programs that will provide health education in the community, improve patients’ access to healthcare services as well as provide resources that AmeriCorps members can leverage to implement outreach activities.
• Collaborate with communications team to develop content for social media and digital platforms to promote events.
• Provide logistical support and coordination of event planning activities for identified events like client registration, ordering and/inventorying of supplies, room reservation, etc.
• Design and provide content for CHC AmeriCorps social media and CHC website to promote health education sessions in the community.
• Work with AmeriCorps program to create and design content related to AmeriCorps member outreach and education sessions within the community, including distribution of marketing materials.
• Participate in community and internal meetings.

Qualifications:

• High school or equivalent required
• Proficiency in Microsoft office and internet-related applications
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Excellent oral and written skills
• Successful clearance of all required criminal history checks (NSCHC)
• Able to travel between CHC sites and in state

Preferred:

• Associate’s degree in public health, communications, public relations related field
• Bilingual Spanish/English
• Knowledge and/or experience utilizing various social media and technology platforms
• Experience creating, designing, marketing content

Organization Information:

Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC), with offices in Connecticut, Colorado and California, is one of the country’s most creative and dynamic providers of primary medical, dental, and behavioral health services, and a leader in practice-based research, health professionals training, and use of innovative technologies to advance health and healthcare. CHC is designated as a federally qualified health center and a patient-centered medical home by HRSA, the Joint Commission, and NCQA, respectively. We deliver more than 600,000 patient visits per year from primary care hubs and community clinics across the state of CT, all connected by technology and common standards for quality. We employ several hundred medical, dental, and behavioral health providers who are engaged in practice, teaching, and research. Our Weitzman Institute is devoted to research and practice transformation and is recognized around the country as one of the premier research institutes focused on improving health care and health outcomes for special and vulnerable populations. In addition, the organization has developed three wholly owned subsidiaries from the original pilot developments within the Weitzman Institute: the National Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Training Consortium (NNPRFTC), the National Institute for Medical Assistant Advancement (NIMAA), and ConferMed.

Location:

Middletown - Weitzman Building

City:

Middletown

State:

Connecticut

Time Type:

Part time