Program Manager 3 - New Orleans, United States - State of Louisiana

Description

The Louisiana Department of Health is dedicated to fulfilling its mission through direct provision of quality services, the development and stimulation of services of others, and the utilization of available resources in the most effective manner.

LDH serves as a model employer for individuals with disabilities.
This position is located within the Louisiana Department of Health / Office of Public Health / Immunization Program / Orleans Parish


Announcement Number:
OPH/CG/193265


Cost Center:
Position Number(s):

This vacancy is being announced as a Classified position and will be filled as a Probationary appointment.
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.

• Resumes WILL
  NOTbe accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

A resume upload will


NOT
populate your information into your application. Work experience left off your electronic application or only included in an attached resume

is not eligible to receive credit
For further information about this vacancy contact:Ciera Green LDH/HUMAN RESOURCESBATON ROUGE, LA
This organization participates in E-verify, and for more information on E-verify, please contact DHS at


MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

A baccalaureate degree plus five 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


Function of Work:
To administer large and highly complex statewide program(s).


Level of Work:
Administrator.


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 2DHH by the presence of responsibility for administering large and highly complex statewide program(s) and supervision exercised.

Differs from Program Manager 4DHH by the absence of responsibility for directing all program functions of large and complex program(s) and supervision exercised.

Administers statewide programs by formulating and implementing current and long-range plans, policies, procedures, and regulations.

Develops and administers the management of federal cooperative agreements and state interagency agreements.

Initiates, reviews and approves requests for proposals, legal and personal services contracts, interagency agreements and Memorandums of Understanding.

Formulates current and long-range plans, procedures, and policies for the statewide program(s).

Participates, develops, coordinates, monitors, manages, oversees and directs the annual budget, capital outlay and operations expenditures.

Directs the preparation of the centralized budget allocates to regional and central office cost centers.

Monitors quality and quantity of services by developing data collection systems and regularly evaluating progress toward meeting the objectives and deliverables of the program(s).

Directs activities of the program(s) through subordinate program officers including operations, organization, budget, personnel, quality assurance, and special projects.

Directs the preparation of detailed reports relating to special projects and assignments.
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