CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) is a nonprofit
organization whose mission is to build sustained, community-based
response programs to natural disasters. In response to the COVID-19
pandemic, CORE GA provides free vaccinations and additional
resources to disadvantaged communities and emerging hotspots
around Georgia. This is accomplished through maintaining strategic
partnerships with local health agencies and community-based
organizations to reach high-risk populations in vulnerable areas.
CORE’s mobile public health teams require the Assistant Team
Supervisor to support the initiatives in these communities, and to
provide operational and outreach assistance and a strong face to the
public. The Assistant Team Supervisor will support the coordination
and operations of vaccination events and health outreach events
throughout the local health district.
This is a hybrid position and will be in the field a minimum of 3 days
a week. Additionally, it is a contracted role slated to end 05/31/2025
Main Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain partnerships with community organizations, local businesses, and healthcare providers to expand outreach efforts
- Coordinate vaccination and outreach sites across the health district and serve as point of contact for all communications
- Support with mobile public health unit, including staff, site setup, operations, and breakdown
- Assist in managing equipment, supply and vaccine inventory, including monthly inventory check
- Monitor daily site operations and adapt to frequent changes
- Submit mandatory data reporting and maintain accurate records
- Engage with community members and leaders to provide updated health education
- Research, verify and link participants to additional community-based resources
- Distribute health supplies (e.g., Narcan, test kits, etc.)
- Adhere to safety protocols and ensure compliance with program guidelines, policies, workflows, and reporting measures and structures
- Develop and implement new public health programming for respective areas
- Other duties as assigned
Scope and Travel:
- No direct reports
- Comfortable traveling up to 1-3 hours from operational hub in a company vehicle or personal vehicle
Qualifications:
- Minimum 1-2 years of public health experience in a community setting
- Available Full-Time, 40 hours a week, including weekends (weekly schedule varies)
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds
- Live within 25 miles of the local operational hub
- Access to reliable transportation
- Comfortable working outdoors throughout the year
- Meets eligibility requirements to drive a CORE vehicle
Experience:
- Demonstrated experience working with underserved/under
- resources communities
Skills and Competencies:
- Excellent analytical skills, observation and analysis capacity
- Very good knowledge of G-Suite and Microsoft Office (including MS Word, Excel)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective information sharing
- Aptitude for identifying issues and developing effective solutions
- Skills to prioritize tasks and manage time efficiently
- Ability to create and foster a collaborative team environment
- Understanding and valuing diversity within the community, team, and organization
- Fluency in another language, preferred
- Flexibility to adjust to changes in the workplace and manage unexpected challenges
Clear pre-employment background check requirements, including local, state, and national criminal records checks, sex offender registries, employment, education verifications and child abuse registry check (if required by state regulations) are required post job offer and prior to employment.
Safeguarding
CORE is committed to keeping children and vulnerable individuals safe and has a Zero Tolerance policy for sexual exploitation and abuse. Every CORE employee, consultant and volunteer is bound by CORE’s Code of Conduct and Safeguarding Policy. By applying for this position, an applicant confirms that they have not previously violated an employer’s safeguarding, sexual misconduct, (child) sexual exploitation and abuse, or human trafficking policy.
What We Do
Originally founded in 2010 by Sean Penn as J/P Haitian Relief Organization (J/P HRO) to provide long-term support for the people of Haiti and their communities following the devastating 2010 earthquake, CORE unifies local and national government leaders, community-based organizations, other international NGOs, UN agencies, and donors with community members for holistic relief efforts.