Part IV: Descriptions of the 50 Best Jobs for Each Personality Type _______________________________Health Educators
! Personality Code: SE! Education/Training Required: Bachelor’s
degree
! Annual Earnings: $42,920
! Beginning Wage: $25,340
! Earnings Growth Potential: High
! Growth: 26.2%
! Annual Job Openings: 13,707
! Self-Employed: 0.1%
! Part-Time: 12.0%
Promote, maintain, and improve individual and
community health by assisting individuals and
communities to adopt healthy behaviors. Collect
and analyze data to identify community needs
prior to planning, implementing, monitoring,
and evaluating programs designed to encourage
healthy lifestyles, policies, and environments.
May also serve as a resource to assist individu-
als, other professionals, or the community and
may administer fi scal resources for health edu-
cation programs. Document activities, recording
information such as the numbers of applications
completed, presentations conducted, and persons
assisted. Develop and present health education and
promotion programs such as training workshops,
conferences, and school or community presentations.
Develop and maintain cooperative working relation-
ships with agencies and organizations interested in
public health care. Prepare and distribute health edu-
cation materials, including reports; bulletins; and
visual aids such as fi lms, videotapes, photographs,
and posters. Develop operational plans and poli-
cies necessary to achieve health education objectives
and services. Collaborate with health specialists and
civic groups to determine community health needs
and the availability of services and to develop goals
for meeting needs. Maintain databases, mailing lists,
telephone networks, and other information to facil-
itate the functioning of health education programs.
Supervise professional and technical staff in imple-
menting health programs, objectives, and goals.Design and conduct evaluations and diagnostic stud-
ies to assess the quality and performance of health
education programs. Provide program informa-
tion to the public by preparing and presenting press
releases, conducting media campaigns, and/or main-
taining program-related Web sites. Develop, prepare,
and coordinate grant applications and grant-related
activities to obtain funding for health education pro-
grams and related work. Provide guidance to agen-
cies and organizations in the assessment of health
education needs and in the development and delivery
of health education programs. Develop and maintain
health education libraries to provide resources for
staff and community agencies. Develop, conduct, or
coordinate health needs assessments and other pub-
lic health surveys.
GOE—Interest Area/Cluster: 05. Education and
Tr a i n i n g. Work Group: 05.06. Counseling, Health,
and Fitness Education. Other Jobs in " is Work
Group: Educational, Vocational, and School Coun-
selors; Fitness Trainers and Aerobics Instructors.
Skills: Service Orientation; Social Perceptiveness;
Monitoring; Learning Strategies; Instructing; Speak-
ing; Coordination; Active Learning.
Education and Training Programs: Health Com-
munication; Community Health Services/Liaison/
Counseling; Public Health Education and Promo-
tion; Maternal and Child Health; International Pub-
lic Health/International Health; Bioethics/Medical
Ethics. Related Knowledge/Courses: Sociology
and Anthropology; Customer and Personal Service;
Education and Training; Personnel and Human
Resources; Psychology; # erapy and Counseling.
Work Env ironment : Indoors; disease or infections;
sitting; using hands on objects, tools, or controls.