Candace S. Email and Phone Number

• Oversees and directs the work under the Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce grant. • Provides project coordination, oversee implementation of work plan and project objectives, and manage staff and partners for this grant funding.• Ensures that all grant requirements and reporting requirements are met and that BCHD remains compliant through the life of the grant.• Monitors interventions and programs funded by the grant to ensure compliance with grantor guidelines.• Manages overall grant activities, including completing all reporting requirements and execution of contracts under this project.• Works closely with the BCHD Organizational Development Manager and HR office to develop and implement a strategic workforce development plan and subsequent workforce development training.• Supports the agency in vision and strategy development in the areas of workforce development. • Actively develops agency people strategies that increase the health and well-being of BCHD employees, helping them thrive. • Leads the development of workforce analytics and program evaluation

• Directed the Medicaid/CHIP home visiting lead/asthma program and the Statewide Integrated Health Improvement Strategy (SIHIS) asthma program.• Switched program to the REDCap database for all case managers leading to a 75% improvement. • Hand-picked by upper management to mentor teams and managers from other Local Health Departments while serving as the point of contact for internal and external stakeholders.• Oversaw the daily operations of the Healthy Homes Program, budget preparation, and submission, local health department invoicing and reporting of effort.• Effectively led team ensuring good cross-functional communications and provide input to functional managers on team and team member performance.• Provided leadership in establishing and reporting on and around key program metrics to create more data driven, objective measures around program efficacy.

• Collaborated with departmental leaders to establish organizational goals, strategic plans and objectives.• Served as point of contact for center clients and staff to resolve issues and implement long-term solutions.• Developed project plans that identify resource and budgetary needs.• Co-created the Annual Henrietta Lacks Lecture and other community events.• Collaborate closely with design, product management, and engineering to drive planning and execution across teams.• Identify and mitigate risks to execution by clarifying scope, removing blockers, and ensuring efficient communication between appropriate stakeholders.• Assist teams in creating schedules, setting goals, and identifying milestones to ensure success at the individual project and team portfolio level. • Track and report progress of projects and goals in an efficient, audience-appropriate manner.

• Implemented, and operate comprehensive data warehouse systems.• Provided and coordinated troubleshooting support for data warehouses.• Developed and maintained standards, such as organization, structure and nomenclature, for design of data warehouse elements, such as data architectures, models, tools and databases.• Created supporting documentation, such as metadata and diagrams of entity relationships, business processes and process flow.

• Consulted with advertising agencies and staff to arrange promotional campaigns in all types of media for products, organizations and individuals.• Updated and maintained content posted on web.• Wrote press releases and other media communications to promote clients.• Prepared and edited organizational publications, such as employee newsletters and stockholders' reports, for internal and external audiences.• Arranged public appearances, lectures, contests and exhibited for clients to increase product and service awareness and to promote goodwill.• Assisted in the development and marketing efforts of the Baltimore WorkforceInvestment Board “Encore Awards” recognition event.