This 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 Center the Hub and its activities and the authorizing legislation The Information Outreach Faculty Assistant will plan collect feedback and revise and implement the Hubs activities in collaboration with other Hub team members This position has a primary and secondary purpose 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 These organizations include but arent limited to state and local government agencies health systems nonprofit and community based organizations libraries consumer referral services and educational institutions The Outreach Assistant will use the Hubs plain language and language access criteria to identify consumer materials from these organizations and help amplify and disseminate the materials through the Hubs and other organizations communication channels The Information Outreach Assistant will work closely with the Community Partner Outreach Assistant to plan and manage organizational contacts and relationships The Information Outreach 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 secondary purpose of this position is to develop and deliver consumerpatient focused presentations on how to search for and evaluate the quality and suitability of health information and services These presentations may be in person virtual and hybrid and will likely happen in close coordination with Hub partner organizations The Outreach Faculty Assistant 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 in collaboration with the Partner Outreach Assistant 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 audience appropriate formats and channels to increase information distributionamplification Monitor and recommend new technologies such as artificial intelligence AI tools that may affect information distributionamplification Promote language access strategies to partner organizations Develop and deliver in person virtual and hybrid consumerpatient focused presentations on how to search for and evaluate the quality and suitability of health information and services Other duties as assigned