Employment & Internships
Our work breaks down into three main categories:
- Supporting the health of all who live in and visit Dane County
- Protecting the environment
- Working with community partners to improve health and prevent health inequities
We value the strengths, perspectives, and contributions of a diverse workforce and community. Come join us!
Current Employment Opportunities
- Public Health Nurse (Project) (closes 4/19/2024). The person in this position will work in the Nurse-Family Partnership program providing comprehensive home visiting services to first time mothers until the child is 2 years of age. Over the 2½ year period nurses work with clients on their goals. A focus is on improving pregnancy outcomes, child health/development, and the economic self-sufficiency of the family.
- Environmental Health Program Manager (closes 4/19/2024). The person in this position will supervise a unit of assigned environmental health staff. Responsible for interviewing, hiring, orientation, supervision, performance evaluation and discipline. Provides oversight to the programmatic aspects of inspection, licensing, education, regulation and enforcement activities of an environmental health program. Ensures compliance with state and local sanitation and health codes. Develops and documents program policy and procedures. Attends meetings to represent the environmental health program.
- LTE Public Health Field Staff (closes 4/23/2024). We are hiring 2 LTE Water Quality Field Staff and 2 LTE Vector Control Technicians. Water Quality Field Staff will be responsible for collection and analysis of beach water quality samples. They will also perform basic microbiological analysis on drinking water and other samples as needed. Vector Control Technicians will perform field sampling of water for mosquito larvae; identify mosquitoes in the lab and perform data entry; conduct adult mosquito surveillance and perform larval mosquito control as needed. They will also collect ticks through established protocols, identification to species, and data entry.
Internships
There are no internships currently available.
