# Health Program Manager 3 (Family Nutrition Program Manager) — Health · Alaska Jobs [← The Board](https://alaskajobs.org/) · [Healthcare jobs](https://alaskajobs.org/jobs/healthcare) # Health Program Manager 3 (Family Nutrition Program Manager) Health - **Location** — Juneau or Anchorage or Fairbanks, AK - **PCN** — 061103 - **Salary** — $3,623.20 - $3,804.00 Biweekly (Range 21) - **Type** — Full Time - **Open to** — Alaska Residents Only - **Bargaining unit** — Supervisory - **Timing** — Year-round - **Posted** — 2026-09-10 - **Closes** — 2026-09-21 - **Source** — Workplace Alaska (State of Alaska) (synced) Job Description This Individual Position is Exempt from the Hiring Freeze. Qualified Applicants are Encouraged To Apply. Welcome to the Department of Health! We’d be delighted to have you join our team. If you envision yourself in this role and are ready to start an exciting career with us, apply today! This position is open to Alaskan Residents only. Please check out the residency definition to determine if you qualify. This position is currently located in Juneau. The position may be in Anchorage, Fairbanks, or Juneau, depending upon the location of the most qualified candidate. This position requires that the selected candidate be a Registered Dietitian What you will be doing: The WIC Family Nutrition Program Manager role offers an experienced public health nutrition professional the opportunity to lead and strengthen WIC services across Alaska. In this role, you will lead regional WIC staff, coordinate outreach through Public Health Centers, and work closely with local teams, grantees, and vendors to ensure women, infants, and children receive high-quality nutrition services, education, supplemental foods, and healthcare referrals. You will have the opportunity to shape regional program operations, build strong community partnerships, and support culturally responsive and equitable services for families throughout Alaska. As part of Alaska’s statewide WIC program, you will combine your leadership and public health expertise to support program compliance while making a meaningful difference in the health and well-being of Alaska’s families. Our organization, mission, and culture: The Division of Public Health is the state's lead public health agency focused on the services that protect the public's health and advance the health status of all Alaskans and communities by preventing illness and injury. WIC is a public health program that provides nutrition and breastfeeding education, counseling, support, referrals to needed services, and nutritious food to eligible women, infants, and children up to age five. We embrace the values of excellence, innovation, continuous improvement, integrity, and inclusiveness. In your role, you will positively impact families' food security across Alaska. The benefits of joining our team: We are committed to employee health and well-being, offering opportunities for professional growth and development, self-care, and a supportive, collegial work environment with job stability and security. Additional benefits include: option for hybrid telework, if desired 11 paid holidays paid leave retirement options insurance (health, vision, and dental) The working environment you can expect: This position is located either in the Fairbanks Public Health Center, the Juneau Public Health Center, or in the heart of Anchorage, in the Frontier Building in mid-town Anchorage. We are a close-knit, fun team dedicated to supporting health access and equity, with a passion for improving the lives of families, women, infants, children, and adolescents. The Division of Public Health has a long history of collaborating with health care providers, non-profits, educators, and families to improve maternal, newborn, and early childhood health outcomes. Who we are looking for: The ideal candidate will possess some or all of the following position-specific competencies in addition to the minimum qualifications listed below: Analytical Thinking/ Problem Solving: Uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one’s knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary. Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change. Program Oversight: Plans, coordinates, and monitors programs to ensure that federal, state, and/or local government program requirements and plans are met, providing professional consultation on the specialized services of the program or associated project(s). To view the general description and example of duties for this job class, please go to the following link and search for Health Program Manager 3 : https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/classspecs Minimum Qualifications Competency-Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions This job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications. Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class. Competency Description The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations rather than specific tasks and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation. Please ensure your application (through work history, training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports/demonstrates that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class. Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with the competencies in Program Planning: Ensures state/Tribal/community health improvement planning uses community health assessments and other information related to the health of a community (e.g., current data and trends; proposed federal, state, and local legislation; commitments from organizations to act). Develops program goals and objectives. Community Dimensions of Practice: Distinguishes the roles and responsibilities of governmental and non-governmental organizations in providing programs and services to improve the health of a community. Partnering: Develops networks and builds alliances; collaborates across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals. Public Health: Applies knowledge of the concepts, principles, theories, methods, and tools associated with protecting and improving the health of people and their communities, including promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing, and responding to infectious diseases. Human Capital Management: Builds and manages workforce based on organizational goals, budget considerations, and staffing needs. Ensures that employees are appropriately recruited, selected, appraised, and rewarded; takes action to address performance problems. Manages a multi-sector workforce and a variety of work situations. Leadership: Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations. Conflict Management: Encourages creative tension and differences of opinions. Anticipates and takes steps to prevent counter-productive confrontations. Manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a constructive manner. Equivalent to those typically gained by: A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in biological, health or behavioral science; health practice; education; public, healthcare, or business administration; or a closely related field; AND/OR Progressively responsible professional supervisory or lead level experience performing health program planning, development, coordination, evaluation, or implementation; providing technical health care assistance and consultation; conducting health care utilization or quality assurance examinations; and/or delivering healt [Apply at the source ↗](https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/alaska/jobs/5463547/health-program-manager-3-family-nutrition-program-manager-pcn-061103) ## Express confidential interest Alaska politics is a small world. If you can't be seen job-hunting, submit a sealed interest : the employer sees only your alias and pitch. Your name and contact stay sealed until they request an introduction and you approve it . 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