Thursday, October 22, 2020

Chicago Public Schools OSHW Job Openings

The Office of Student Health and Wellness at Chicago Public Schools is hiring for a number of positions!

Join a determined and innovative team of public health professionals dedicated to the health and wellbeing of all students and eliminating health related barriers to learning.

 

Interested candidates must apply through the CPS Careers site.


  • School Garden Specialist (Job Number: 2000026U) - Job Description
  • School Garden Project Manager (Job Number: 2000026W) - Job Description
  • Student Health Specialist - Infection Prevention and Control (Job Number: 2000025R)
  • Student Health Project Manager - Primary Care Services (Job Number: 2000021N)
  • Healthy CPS Hotline Coordinator (Job Number: 20000238) - 2 vacancies
  • Children and Family Benefits Unit Regional Specialist (Job Number: 2000022O) - 2 vacancies
  • Children and Family Benefits Unit Coordinator (Job Number: 200001ZY) - 5 vacancies
  • Intake Contact Tracer (Job Number: 200001TA) - 6 vacancies

For more information visit www.CPS.edu/HealthyCPS

Questions? Email OSHW@cps.edu or call the Healthy CPS Hotline 773-553-KIDS (5437)

Health Career Connection (HCC) Undergraduate Students: Paid Health Internships

For over 30 years, HCC has inspired and empowered the next generation of diverse health professionals. Through their paid, 10 week, full-time internship program with leading health care and public health employers, interns are provided an educational stipend and have the unique opportunity to:

  • Gain hands-on exposure and experience
  • Strengthen their network
  • Discover or affirm their health career direction
  • Find mentors
  • Develop professional skills
  • Secure jobs (70% are offered a fulltime job or extended internship)
  • Increase competitiveness for graduate education (Public Health, Medicine, Mental Health, and Business)

To ensure safe experiences for students during the COVID-19 pandemic, HCC works with host organizations to provide in person, hybrid, or virtual internships that comply with health regulations.

HCC is open to all undergraduate students and recent graduates. Students enrolled in graduate programs are not eligible to apply. HCC internships are open to all students and strongly encourage BIPOC students, first-generation students, and those from economically challenged and underserved backgrounds to apply.

To apply, student should submit their application and required materials by December 13, 2020. To learn more about HCC and our programs, please visit the HCC website

AAPHP Public Health Practice Award

Applications are now being accepted for the AAPHP Public Health Practice Award to support a student-led public health project. This project may include the practicum, or some other intervention, research and/or evaluation project conducted in a mutually beneficial partnership with a community partner (defined as an educational, governmental or non-governmental organization). Activities used to complete the requirements for a thesis or internship may be eligible. Examples of how funds can be used include (although this list is not exhaustive): purchase supplies or technical expertise for the project; provide incentives for research participation; cover travel costs for disseminating the findings; or support the awardee directly.  Three scholarships are available:

•    One scholarship to support an undergraduate student project ($500).

•    Two scholarships to support graduate student projects ($1000 each).

Student eligibility requirements:

1. Enrolled in a public health degree program in an AAPHP member or affiliate institution for the 2020-21 academic year.

2. Completed at least 15 semester units or 22.5 quarter units and are in excellent academic standing with a minimum GPA of 3.0 for undergraduate students and 3.5 for graduate students. 

3. Currently approved by their program to conduct a community- engaged project or thesis.

4.Currently conducting or will begin the planned project by February 1, 2021.

Applications and supporting documents must be submitted to AAPHP by November 20, 2020. Scholarship awards will be announced by January 8, 2021.