Care strategist

Location

Portland, OR | United States

Job description

Position Title: Reproductive Justice and Gender Affirming Care Strategist

Reports To:  OHEA Director

Duration: Full-time, Limited Duration through June 2025 with opportunity to extend.

Compensation: Salaried $65,000-70,000

Benefits: 100% employer-paid medical and dental insurance; health and wellness stipend; COVID leave; 401K plan with employer match after 3 months of employment; professional development stipend; cell phone and internet reimbursement; home office stipend; paid time off (PTO), paid summer and winter break & 10 paid holidays annually. Flexible work hours and remote work. Must be based in the state of Oregon.

About OHEA

OHEA is a people of color led collaborative, organized to center and uplift the wisdom of our communities of color through racial justice informed health equity policies and practices, as part of the movement to dismantle white supremacy and shift the imbalance of power. OHEA is guided by six culturally specific organizations, African Family Holistic Health Organization, Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization, Micronesian Islander Community, Native American Youth and Family Center, Oregon Community Health Workers Association, and the Oregon Latino Health Coalition. 

OHEA is one of ten Regional Health Equity Coalitions (RHECs) in the state of Oregon. As a RHEC we are backboned by a community based organization, currently that organization is the Oregon Community Health Workers Association (ORCHWA). OHEA staff members are staff of our fiscal sponsor, though our work is independent of the fiscal sponsor.

We focus our work in three areas:

Advocacy: We provide political education opportunities and work with our community partners to identify the most effective policy changes needed to advance health equity in Oregon.

Convener: We identify opportunities to convene partners around a specific shared equity goal.

Knowledge Center: Informed by community wisdom, we partner with institutions to improve their practices and policies around engaging with community partners and members.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

The Reproductive Justice and Gender Affirming Care Strategist is responsible for stewarding OHEA’s community led, queer and trans people of color focused, reproductive justice and gender affirming care health needs assessment in the tri-county region of Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas counties.The position is a limited duration with potential to extend employment. This position would work closely with OHEA’s team to advance OHEA three core work areas, including advocacy and political education, convening partners across communities and systems, and uplifting community wisdom through our knowledge center. Specifically, this position would focus work in the following areas:

• Lead OHEA’s work with a community led Reproductive Justice and Gender Affirming Care health needs assessment (CHNA);
• Coordinate with Data Analyst to ensure survey designs are rooted in decolonial, feminist, disability justice, and racial justice values;
• Coordinate and design remote community engagement events that foster meaningful and responsible engagement;
• Coordinate and oversee our Community Action Team, a cohort of community members who are directly impacted by QTBIPOC reproductive justice and gender affirming care issues and engage in political education and advocacy-related actions in health equity;
• Coordinate administrative supports related to contracts, program budget, and contractors;
• Connecting with health systems and related partners in a strategic call to action based on the recommendations of the assessment;
• Develop communications with a multifocus on accessibility related to language, format, and other ways to connect the work with our communities;
• Serve as liaison to partner coalition spaces, provide health equity analysis as needed.
• Participate on the OHEA facilitation team in Racial Justice and Health Equity training.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Qualifications:

• Lived experience and a deep understanding of health inequities, racial injustice, reproductive justice, gender affirming care, and the impacts of the social determinants of health.
• Experience in organizing community communication and coordinating remote events.
• Experience or desire to learn more about policy and advocacy efforts for policy, systems and environment change.
• Experience in strategic navigation of a diverse range of stakeholder organizations and leadership, including health systems.
• Grounding in anti-racism practices and/or decolonized practices, with a desire to learn more.
• Historical involvement with community members in a collaborative decision-making process.
• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills
• Facilitation and convening experience with a desire to grow skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep commitment to centering communities most impacted in all levels of decision making and solution creation.
•  An understanding of Oregon’s racist and exclusionary history. 
• Understanding of Oregon’s current and historical political and policy-making landscape and process.
• Experience or familiarity with community health needs assessments. 
• Anti-oppression and anti-racism work experience and/or training.
• Experience working on issues affecting communities most impacted by health inequities; including but not limited to, Black, Indigenous and people of color communities, LGBTQIA2+ communities, immigrant and refugee communities, individuals living in rural and frontier communities and disabilities communities. 

The Oregon Health Equity Alliance (OHEA) does not discriminate based upon race, religion,

color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions),

sexuality, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Application Steps

Please send a resume or CV and a short cover letter that addresses why you are interested in joining the team and how your experience will set you up for success in this role. Additionally if you have identified areas within the scope of work here that you want to learn more about, please note those as well, as you feel comfortable. 

• Submit materials to [email protected] with the subject line “Reproductive Justice and Gender Affirming Care Strategist” by 3/31/2024

We plan to begin interviewing applicants early April so if you are interested, please submit your application or reach out to us if you have questions or time constraints you’d like to talk through with us. 

• You can email [email protected] with the subject line “Questions about RJGAC application process' '. We are a very small team, so please be patient as we work to reply to all emails in a timely manner.

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