Locating a Corporate Health Promotion Plan Coordinator

Locating an individual to lead your organization in creating a Corporate Health Promotion Plan

Without a qualified Corporate Health Promotion Plan coordinator to lead and manage your organization’s creation of a culture of wellness, efforts can be scattered and momentum can stall. While it’s vital that the creation of a culture of wellness be someone’s priority, not all organizations need a full-time coordinator.  There are a number of ways to gain the time of a qualified coordinator.

Be careful not to confuse Corporate Health Promotion Plan skills with fitness skills. You are not looking for a personal trainer or a nutritionist to run your Corporate Wellness Program. The following are good indications that an individual may be qualified to be a Corporate Health Promotion Plan coordinator:

• knowledge of community health, population health and worksite Corporate Wellness Programs
• competent working with and understanding aggregate data, preferably Corporate Health Promotion Plan data
• competent managing projects, including developing timelines and facilitating meetings
• competent in strategic planning, including defining goals and related objectives
• ability to understand, and use the findings of, journal articles on effective Corporate Health Promotion Plan Strategies.

What will a Corporate Health Promotion Plan coordinator do?

The Corporate Health Promotion Plan coordinator is responsible for guiding a process that creates worksite facilities, policies and practices that promote health. The individual may do some of all of the following for your Corporate Wellness Program:

• act as a liaison between upper management and the Corporate Health Promotion Plan employee advisory workgroup
• interpret health-related data on your Corporate Health Promotion Plan
• create and manage work plans and budgets for implementation of selected Corporate Health Promotion Plan Strategies
• facilitate Health Promotion Committee meetings
• lead your organization in establishing measurable goals for the Corporate Health Promotion Plan
• recommend effective Corporate Health Promotion Plan Strategies, using the evidence in the health behavior literature and national and/or recommended best practices
• document and report short-term and long-term progress on Corporate Health Promotion Plan Strategies and goals.

Where can we find a qualified Corporate Health Promotion Plan coordinator?

Explore the following when looking for a Corporate Health Promotion Plan coordinator:

• Existing employees: Are there individuals on employees who have the background, or are interested in gaining the skills, to support as a Corporate Health Promotion Plan coordinator? Is it possible to dedicate a portion of someone’s time (e.g., .5 FTE) to the position of coordinating your organization’s Corporate Health Promotion Plan Strategies? If possible, budget enough to cover not only salary but also continued learning, journal subscriptions and membership fees for this Corporate Health Promotion Plan position.
• New employees – Can you hire an individual to be your organization’s Corporate Health Promotion Plan coordinator? Would it need to be a full-time position, or would part-time be sufficient?
• Corporate Health Promotion Plan Consultation – Various organizations (e.g., health plans, benefit consultants and public health departments) provide Corporate Health Promotion Plan consultation on building a culture of wellness within a worksite.

An outside Corporate Health Promotion Plan consultant can advise an internal Corporate Health Promotion Plan coordinator and your Health Promotion Committee on establishing priorities and selecting Strategies. Or, you can contract with a Corporate Health Promotion Plan consultant to be your coordinator. If you go with the latter approach, you’ll want to contract with the individual for sufficient hours to carry out all of the responsibilities associated with coordinating an effective strategy.