Job Description

Supplemental Information

This position is located within the Louisiana Department of Health / Office of Aging and Adult Services / Headquarters / East Baton Rouge Parish

Announcement Number: OAAS/CSH/180375
Cost Center: 3201066000
Position Number(s): 50488457

This vacancy is being announced as a Classified position and may be filled as a Probationary or Promotional appointment.

No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

Current permanent status classified State Employees may be required to serve a new probationary period in lieu of promotion, if selected.

The maximum amount listed for this job title is the maximum salary a person can make as they gain experience in the position. It is not the maximum amount that we are allowed to pay a new hire.

Serves as the Office of Aging and Adult Services (OAAS) Program Director (Program Manager 2) for the Money Follows the Person Rebalancing program (Louisiana\'s initiative is referred to as My Place Louisiana), which focuses on transitioning Medicaid participants residing in Nursing Facilities back to their home and/or community-based service setting.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
40% Implements and manages the operational protocol for the administration of My Place Louisiana program statewide as well as the programmatic operations of the transition coordination for older adults and persons with adult on-set disabilities residing in an institutional setting. Manages individual data indicators, transition targets, budget projections, and grant benchmarks.
25% Manages the completion of reports to CMS that includes progress toward transition benchmarks, quality management information and data, and any additional data that is required or requested. Responsible for developing and adhering to the MFP OAAS budget.
20% Directs subordinate managers and staff positions allocated to the program within OAAS, determines work assignments, and reviews and approves work.
10% Liaison who represents MFP and OAAS or related statewide task forces, work groups, councils, and coalitions as assigned. Develops concise briefings for the OAAS Assistant Secretary, Deputy Assistant Secretary or LDH Medicaid Project Director on status, changing needs, and opportunities for the program.
5% All other duties as assigned.

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For further information about this vacancy contact:
Casey Hickman

LDH/HUMAN RESOURCES
BATON ROUGE, LA 70821
225 342-6477

This organization participates in E-verify, and for more information on E-verify, please contact DHS at 1-888-464-4218.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

A baccalaureate degree plus four years of professional level experience in administrative services, economics, public health, public relations, social services, health services, or surveying and/or assessing health or social service programs or facilities for compliance with state and federal regulations.

SUBSTITUTIONS:

Six years of full-time work experience in any field may be substituted for the required baccalaureate degree.

Candidates without a baccalaureate degree may combine work experience and college credit to substitute for the baccalaureate degree as follows:

A maximum of 120 semester hours may be combined with experience to substitute for the baccalaureate degree.

30 to 59 semester hours credit will substitute for one year of experience towards the baccalaureate degree.

60 to 89 semester hours credit will substitute for two years of experience towards the baccalaureate degree.

90 to 119 semester hours credit will substitute for three years of experience towards the baccalaureate degree.

120 or more semester hours credit will substitute for four years of experience towards the baccalaureate degree.

College credit earned without obtaining a baccalaureate degree may be substituted for a maximum of four years full-time work experience towards the baccalaureate degree. Candidates with 120 or more semester hours of credit, but without a degree, must also have at least two years of full-time work experience to substitute for the baccalaureate degree.

Graduate training with eighteen semester hours in one or any combination of the following fields will substitute for a maximum of one year of the required experience on the basis of thirty semester hours for one year of experience: public health; public relations; counseling; social work; psychology; rehabilitation services; economics; statistics; experimental/applied statistics; business, public, or health administration.

A Juris Doctorate will substitute for one year of the required experience.

A master\'s degree in public health; counseling; social work; psychology; rehabilitation services; economics; business, public, or health administration will substitute for one year of the required experience.

Graduate training with less than a Ph.D. will substitute for a maximum of one year of the required experience.

A Ph.D. in public health; counseling; social work; psychology; rehabilitation services; economics; business, public, or health administration will substitute for two years of the required experience.

NOTE:

Graduate training will substitute for a maximum of two years of the required experience.

NOTES:

Health services include all services dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disease, or the promotion, maintenance and restoration of health for sick or injured individuals.

Examples of public health jobs include sanitarian, public health engineer and public health epidemiologist.

NOTE:
Any college hours or degree must be from an accredited college or university.

Job Concepts

Function of Work:
To manage medium size and moderately complex statewide program(s).

Level of Work:
Manager.

Supervision Received:
Administrative direction from a higher-level administrator/executive.

Supervision Exercised:
Supervision over lower-level positions in accordance with the Civil Service Allocation Criteria Memo.

Location of Work:
Department of Health and Hospitals and other social service entities as established by an approved DSCS Allocation Criteria Memorandum.

Job Distinctions:
Differs from Program Manager 1-A--DHH and Program Manager 1--B-DHH by the presence of responsibility for administering medium size or moderately complex statewide program(s) and supervision exercised.

Differs from Program Manager 3--DHH by the absence of responsibility for administering large size and highly complex statewide program(s) and supervision exercised.

Examples of Work

Plans, prepares and implements strategic long and short-term goals and objectives of the statewide program(s).

Oversees statewide program compliance with state/federal laws and regulations.

Organizes, schedules and coordinates all statewide monitoring and surveillance procedures; evaluates preparedness and response efforts of staff.

Directs the agency\'s operational planning, strategic planning, performance reporting and grants coordination.

Directs the policy development and issuance functions of the agency. Oversees the legislation coordination and rulemaking functions of the agency.

Directs, implements, and manages a system of health and program related data and performance indicators that provide information for assessment of services provided.

Directs programmatic evaluations of department programs and the administrative functions of the unit.

Prepares grants; develops the financial criteria of those grants; and, reports to those grant funding sources.

Plans the implementation of new or changed statewide treatment service initiatives. Collaborates with those organizational units and clients impacted by the new or changed statewide initiatives.

Directs the development and drafting of the department\'s legislative package for each legislative session. Monitors the implementation of all legislation passed requiring action by the department.

Directs the development and implementation of the quality management system such as appropriate quality of care standards, outcomes measures, systematic monitoring and evaluation procedures, mechanisms for problem identification, and resolution/follow-up for the department\'s programs/ offices.

Represents the Secretary on numerous boards, commissions, and task forces.

Represents agency and program(s) on task forces, commissions, and national/regional/state/local committees

Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity to make a difference through public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.

As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:

Insurance Coverage More information can be found at

Holidays and Leave - State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:

• New Year\'s Day
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,
• Mardi Gras,
• Good Friday,
• Memorial Day,
• Independence Day,
• Labor Day,
• Veteran\'s Day,
• Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor

State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.

Retirement - State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):

• Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (

). LASERS has provided this to give you more detailed information about their system * Teacher\'s Retirement System of Louisiana (
), * Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (
), among others

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