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About FCHC:

Since 1976, Florida Community Health Centers, Inc. (FCHC) has been a health care leader in Florida. We provide comprehensive primary and specialty health care and patient support services through a network of Centers surrounding Lake Okeechobee and across Florida's Treasure Coast. Our mission is to ensure that everyone in our communities has access to culturally competent, high-quality health care that they can afford. FCHC has locations in Clewiston, Moore Haven, Okeechobee, Fort Pierce, Port St. Lucie, Stuart, Indiantown, Pahokee and West Palm Beach. FCHC's Corporate Office is centrally located in West Palm Beach, Florida. FCHC has multiple staff members who speak Spanish and Creole, and translation is available for other languages as needed. FCHC has created a "one-stop shop" for patients-providing Pediatric and Adult Primary Care, Dental, OB/GYN and Women's Health, Infectious Disease, Behavioral Health, Pharmacy, chronic disease education and care management, referral assistance, benefit enrollment assistance and coordination, and telehealth services. Our patients benefit from a "medical home" model, where they may access our extensive array of health care clinicians and services in an atmosphere where they are treated with respect, care, and concern. Mission The Mission of Florida Community Health Centers, Inc. (FCHC) is to provide accessible, cost-effective, high-quality, comprehensive health care to all persons in our communities. Vision Florida Community Health Centers, Inc. (FCHC) will maintain strong leadership in, and advocate for, the provision of health care services. FCHC will foster and promote collaborative relationships and will develop partnerships with local, state, and federal public health service agencies and the community in general, to enhance the quality of delivery systems for comprehensive health care. FCHC will be an employer of choice and will demonstrate excellence with a highly trained staff and governing board. Values FCHC values Integrity, Compassion, Commitment to serving others (external and internal to the organization), Innovation, Effectiveness (cost and outcome), Efficiency, being Mission-driven, Commitment to serving others internal to organization and Commitment to Excellence.

Position Summary:

As a member of Senior Management, responsible for managing existing grants and pursuing new funding opportunities (service expansion), responsible for public relations, and responsible for Board/staff development programs for Company. This includes analysis, planning, execution, control, and evaluation for all three areas. Seek additional funding opportunities such as Federal grants; state grants; local grants such as CSC, Healthy Start, jails and other local business, community or governmental related grants. Ensure existing grants are maintained and all reporting requirements are met to ensure continuation. Responsible for researching new business opportunities, to include additional services, delivery sites, and partnerships with community, business or civic organizations. Promote community interest and awareness for FCHC and attract new projects and collaborations to increase the number of patients served. Responsible for the development and execution of an annual Marketing Plan and budget to include promotional materials; print and media advertising; community functions such as health fairs and open houses; and education of state and federal legislative representatives. Responsible for coordinating the recruitment and training of new members to the Board of Directors for FCHC, as well as coordinating new member training and the annual Board of Directors training session.

Duties and Responsibilities Grant/Proposal Writing:

• Develops, maintains and distributes an annual grant The calendar should include from and through dates; renewal application dates; reporting requirement dates; and reporting responsible party.
• Obtains Requests for Proposals and attends scheduled grant writing workshops for existing and new grants.
• Monitors existing grants to ensure all reporting requirements are met and that all parties are complying with the grant. Facilitates problem resolution with any existing
• Schedules management/employee workgroups to coordinate the preparation of grant applications by submission deadlines. Develops a timetable and areas of responsibilityto ensure grant completion in a timely
• Ensures all grant submissions meet all of the necessary requirements of the requestfor
• Seeks new grant opportunities to enhance revenue and increase the number ofpatients
• Presents to the Senior Management team new funding opportunities that are deemed to benefit Coordinates the preparation of new grant applications with related parties to ensure all areas of the RFP are met and that the grant is prepared in such a manner that will result in a successful award.
• Establishes and maintains personal contact with all grantor agencies, foundations, corporations.
• Attends local, civic and business group meetings to enhance local
• Completes an annual detailed needs assessment for each service area and countywhere FCHC provides services.
• Researches and obtains countywide information of the census data for the communitiesthat we serve (i.e., MSFW, age, race, income, Medicaid population, uninsured, special population, )

Service Expansion/Consolidation:

• Develops, revises and monitors FCHC's annual strategic plan (long range and short range)in collaboration with Senior Management and the Board of
• Presents FCHC's strategic plan on an annual basis to the Board of Directors,management and employees of
• Actively pursues new business
• Researches the addition of new This research must include a cost benefit analysis that includes funding and reimbursement considerations as well as the cost to add the new service.
• New or expanded delivery This research must include location of new land or buildings for future expansion as well as possible current, existing building expansion.
• Promotes business relationships and develops community partnerships to promote service

Community Development/Public Relations:

• Develops, in coordination with each Center Manager, an annual marketing plan for their respective center. The plan is updated quarterly and a summary of the monthly activities are presented to the administrative staff in a monthly marketing
• Assists with the development of an annual budget for public relations
• Responsible for the development and approval of all promotional materials prior to distribution to the centers, such as company brochures, newsletters,
• Responsible for the development and approval of all print and media advertising such as billboards, newspapers ads, telephone directories, and articles and stories for submission to news stations and newspapers.
• Works with local newspapers, radio and television media to promote
• Oversees center planned community functions such as health fairs, open houses andmedia or legislative visits. Ensures the events are widely publicized to the
• Works to develop community volunteer committees that can participate in promoting FCHC's goals and mission.
• Reviews all advertising contracts, the purchase of promotional materials and approves the purchase requests prior to forwarding to the Purchasing
• Assist the IT Director with the website content, enhancements and modifications. Ensures the information in the website is kept current.
• Initiates and oversees any local fundraising
• Assists other Senior Managers with s.

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