The University of Maryland School of Public Health is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health and is located at the flagship institution of the state of Maryland in College Park on the ancestral lands of the Piscataway people the traditional stewards of the lands where we work live and learn We at the University recognize honor and are forever indebted to the unwilling generational sacrifices and stolen labor of the enslaved Africans and their descendants upon which the foundations of the US and our institution were built We are a community nearly half a million members strong of diverse students faculty staff and alumni a small city of residents and commuters first responders and health care workers learners artists and athletes a place where thousands come to work every day to make a differenceWe value diversity and strive for inclusion in all we do uplifting people and communities who have experienced historic and ongoing oppression The Faculty Assistant will serve alongside a diverse faculty and student team and contribute to fulfilling our shared campus school and department missionsThis position is part of the Maryland Consumer Health Information Hub team in the UMD Horowitz Center for Health Literacy Please see the Horowitz Center website for information about the HubThis position will contribute to the overall goal of information equity in Maryland The primary purpose is to identify and collaborate with Maryland organizations to increase public access to plain language health safety insurance and social services benefits information The Outreach Assistant will identify consumer materials and help amplify and disseminate the materials through the Hubs and other organizations communication channels The Assistant will be primarily responsible for collaborating with public and medical libraries and consumer informational referral services such as 211 MDThink and local websites and information aggregation services The Assistant will work closely with the Community Partner Outreach Assistant to plan and manage organizational contacts and relationships The secondary purpose of this position is to develop and deliver consumerpatient focused presentations on the quality and suitability of health information and services These presentations will build on existing Hub resources and work with Hub team members and partner organizations to customize presentations for different public audiences Duties Participate in team meetings and coordinate with Hub team members Participate in 1 2 annual in person Hub convenings Inform supervisors of partnerships work products deadlines and roadblocks or challenges Contribute to Hub tracking and reports Create a partnership and information outreach plan including a tracking system and schedule and ask for feedback from internal and external colleagues Identify and manage a multilingual collection of health safety insurance and social services benefits information from partner organizations that the Hub can distributeamplify Identify Hub and partner organization channels to distribute and amplify consumer information throughout Maryland and implement distributionamplification Present the Hub to partners and triage technical assistance requests to Hub team members Research and recommend technology formats and channels to increase information distributionamplification Promote language access and community engagement strategies to partner organizations Develop and deliver in person virtual and hybrid presentations to diverse groups on how to search for and evaluate the quality and suitability of health information and services Other duties as assigned