The application deadline is March 15, 2024 at 11:59 pm Pacific.
The Assessment, Policy Development, & Evaluation (APDE) of the Health Sciences Division of Public Health | Seattle & King County is seeking a Temporary Best Starts for Kids Data Team Intern III to join our team and help support the Family Ways program!
Job Duties
- Work with evaluation team and Program Manager to develop a partner survey to better understand community partner experiences coordinating with Family Ways, partner perspectives on partnership development, facilitators, and barriers to partnerships. Results of this survey will also be used to inform a Network Analysis of partnerships.
- Lead partner survey data collection and analysis. Present results to evaluation and program team.
- Lead analysis of existing qualitative data on partnership development collected from program staff.
- Lead development of a report, presentation, or other visual representation of data that includes findings from the partner survey and program staff data collection, including key takeaways to answer the Family Ways evaluation question: “To what extent did Family Ways develop and sustain community-rooted partnerships?”
- Present project findings to program staff and APDE staff.
- Support other Family Ways or Best Starts for Kids evaluation projects as allowed by time and interest.
Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills
- Demonstrated knowledge of equity and social justice principles and practices and ability to apply this knowledge to all areas of the work, including methods, analysis, results interpretation, and dissemination.
- Detail oriented work ethic with the ability to work quickly and accurately meet deadlines, work on a number of tasks simultaneously, and organize and prioritize work in response to changing needs.
- Demonstrated ability to work as part of a diverse team with internal and external collaboration partners.
- Basic qualitative analysis skills – familiar with analysis methods and process, interpretation of qualitative data including selecting appropriate methods and visualization formats.
- Basic quantitative analysis skills – able to summarize survey data and present visually. Able to select appropriate methods for analysis and visualization.
- Ability to prepare and share results with project team to facilitate learning and continuous quality improvement. This may include presentations, reports, and data visualizations.
- Currently enrolled at an accredited college/university as a graduate level student in the social or health sciences (e.g. medical anthropology, public health epidemiology, medical sociology, social work) or closely related public health field.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience collaborating with Community-Based Organizations and Public Health Program Staff
- Ability to design and administer online surveys (prior experience using Survey Monkey or Microsoft Forms will be a plus for this project)
Best Starts for Kids
Building on the deep knowledge, connections, and skills within King County communities, and backed by what science and research tells us about human development, the Best Starts for Kids King County initiative meets children and families with the right services at the right time. The first Best Starts for Kids levy, approved by King County voters in 2015, reached 490,000 of King County’s youngest children and their families and 40,000 youth and young adults, catalyzing strong starts in a child’s earliest years, and sustaining those gains through to adulthood. In August 2021, King County voters chose to renew the levy with over 62% approval for another six years. The plan for Best Starts for Kids 2.0 will maintain current Best Starts for Kids investments in promotion, prevention, and early intervention, while deepening our investments to address critical needs in our community. View the Best Starts for Kids Implementation Plan: 2022 – 2027.
