Job Number: OPH/PJ/1585
This position is located within the Louisiana Department of Health l Office of Public Health l Central Office l East Baton Rouge Parish.
Cost Center: 0326-7340
Position Number(s): 50552197
This vacancy is being announced as a Classified position and may be filled either as a Probationary Appointment or Promotional Appointment.
*Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of job experience on application.*
Workforce Development, Deputy Director, Bureau of Planning & Performance (Program Manager 1A)
The Louisiana Office of Public Health (OPH) seeks to hire a strategic, high performing Deputy Director for Workforce Development. Serving all of OPH, the Deputy Director will work with team members to plan, implement, and ensure effectiveness of strategies strengthening retention and attraction to OPH as well as supporting professional development of team members. A successful candidate is skilled in building relationships, managing and communicating with team members, assessment, planning, program management, evaluation and producing positive outcomes.
Key responsibilities include
- Develops workforce strategy based on data and OPH priorities
- Plans, implements, evaluates performance, and ensures positive outcomes for workforce strategy’s multiple, scalable programs
- Facilitating and managing a process to develop an improved onboarding program
- Oversight and/or managing leadership development programming
- Oversight and/or development, implementation and management of mentoring programming
- Managing contractors and special projects
- Leads teams
- Resource provider for effective learning modalities and topics
- Oversight and/or management of Workforce Needs Assessment survey and report
- Ensures compliance with national accreditation and state policies
Personal attributes that support success would include
- Well organized and accountable to meet strategic aims
- Ability to lead both small and large initiatives to achieve targeted deadlines and outcomes
- Self-motivated, self-starter
- Direct and clear communication skills- both written and verbal, personal and technical
- Adaptable to lead both technical and non-technical projects
- Ability to develop and manage many initiatives at one time
- Uses proven methods to provide management visibility of the work underway
- Use of data to drive strategic decisions
- Connecting all facets of bureau and OPH efforts
- Ability to learn and implement new technology
Preferred background or experience in
- Public Healthâ mission and vision, including Public Health 3.0
- Workforce development including retention, attraction, and learning strategies
- Effective learning techniques
- Performance improvement topics including quality improvement, state health assessment and improvement planning, national PHAB accreditation, performance management, and workforce development; Practical understanding of how performance improvement topics interrelate. Use of quality improvement/ waste reduction techniques
- Working knowledge of Louisiana Department of Health systems
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
To apply for this vacancy, click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.
For further information about this vacancy contact:
Paula Jackson @ Paula.Jackson@la.gov
LDH/HUMAN RESOURCES
P.O. BOX 4818 BATON ROUGE, LA 70821
This organization participates in E-verify, and for more information on E-verify, please contact DHS at 1-888-464-4218.
Any college hours or degree must be from a school accredited by one of the following regional accrediting bodies: the Middle States Commission on Higher Education; the New England Commission of Higher Education; the Higher Learning Commission; the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities; the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools; and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
Function of Work:
To administer small and less complex statewide health or social service program(s).
Level of Work:
Program Manager.
Supervision Received:
Broad direction from a higher-level manager/administrator.
Supervision Exercised:
May provide functional supervision in accordance with the Civil Service Allocation Criteria Memo.
Location of Work:
Department of Health and Hospitals; Human Service Districts as established; and other social service entities as established by an approved DSCS Allocation Criteria Memorandum.
Job Distinctions:
Differs from Program Monitor-DHH and Program Monitor Supervisor-DHH by the presence of responsibility for administering small or less complex statewide program(s).
Differs from a Program Manager 1-B-DHH by the absence of supervisory responsibility.
Differs from a Program Manager 2-DHH by the absence of responsibility for administering medium or medium complex statewide program(s).
Supervises the coordination of research, analysis and policy management activities related to statewide health or social service program(s).
Develops current and long-range plans, policies and procedures for administering the statewide program(s).
Monitors revenues and expenditures of statewide program budget; formulates budgetary projections.
Prepares and submits grant proposals.
Drafts and finalize contracts and Memorandums of Understanding; monitors/manages budgetary and programmatic aspects of those agreements assuring compliance with requirements/deliverables. Approves contract invoices.
Responds proactively to audit findings, programmatic challenges and issues; coordinates responses and reports to auditors and federal/state governmental entities.
Provides on-going consultation and technical assistance to professional and support staff on programmatic issues.
Serves as liaison for agency on statewide task forces, work groups, councils, and coalitions.
Manages the legislative tracking process during legislative sessions assuring timely analysis of bills and resolutions passed which may impact services. Serves as legislative coordinator.
Revises rules, regulations and procedures to meet changes in law or policy.
Develops and implements training programs for electronic agency policy.
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