Objectives: The purpose of this study was to analyze the roles of workforce required for effective execution of health promotion programsof community health centers in Korea. Methods: Survey was undertaken on 92 people in community health centers and the AnalyticHierarchy Process was employed in order to obtain results regarding the relative importance of role required for health educators. Results:The analysis suggests that of all 5 categories, ‘Assess needs for health education’ and ‘Evaluate health promotion programs and Conductrelated research’ were relatively more important than the other categories of role. Taking into account the weightings of the main categoriesand the subcategories, the analysis shows that the order of importance follows, ‘Use existing health-related statistical data’, ‘Collecthealth-related data’, ‘Survey method and knowledge and skills related to health statistics’, ‘Write an evaluation report’, ‘Understand andapply health education planning theories’. Conclusion: As a health promotion expert of community health center, a health educator ispreferentially required to perform 1) the role to analyze the needs of the community and enable the planning for a customized healthpromotion program, 2) the role to execute evaluation throughout a health promotion programs and disseminate evaluation findings andapply them in following programs, in consideration of higher relative importance of these roles.