Health Program Manager 4 (Deputy Section Chief PCN 061226)

State Of Alaska

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Anchorage, AK - USA

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 9 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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Job Description

This Individual Position is Exempt from the Hiring Freeze. Qualified Applicants are Encouraged To Apply.


Welcome to the Department of Health!

Wed be delighted to have you join our team.

If you envision yourself in this role and are ready to start an exciting career with us apply today!


This position is open to Alaskan Residents only.

Please check out the residency definitionto determine if you qualify.



What You Will Be Doing:

  • Serve as Deputy Section Chief for the Section of Epidemiology helping lead and support a team of nearly 100 public health professionals.
  • Partner with the Chief Epidemiologist to guide strategy and coordinate major programs including infectious diseases HIV/STD prevention immunizations and environmental public health.
  • Make key operational decisions and step in as acting Section Chief when needed to ensure strong consistent leadership.
  • Help lead Alaskas response to emerging and ongoing public health threats through rapid coordinated action.
  • Build partnerships across programs and agencies to help protect the health and safety of communities across Alaska.


Mission and Values/Culture:
The Alaska Section of Epidemiology works to keep Alaskans safe from infectious diseases injuries and environmental health hazards by collecting analyzing and using data to guide public health action. The team partners with local Tribal state and federal organizations to conduct disease and injury surveillance support immunization and HIV/STD programs and inform prevention and response efforts. As Deputy Section Chief you will help lead this important work by providing strategic leadership and operational oversight across programs strengthening staff and partnerships and supporting rapid coordinated responses to emerging health threats across the state.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:
Joining the Section of Epidemiology offers the opportunity to make a meaningful statewide impact by protecting communities from infectious diseases injuries and environmental health threats. You will work alongside a highly skilled multidisciplinary team of epidemiologists clinicians data analysts and public health leaders who value collaboration and innovation. The role offers opportunities to lead complex initiatives grow professionally and influence public health practice across Alaska. Your work will directly support data-driven decisions that protect the health and safety of diverse communities across the state.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:
The position is based in Anchorage within the Alaska Division of Public Health offices with the opportunity to engage with partners and communities across the state. The daily work environment is primarily office-based with a mix of in-person and virtual collaboration and may include occasional in-state travel to support partner engagement or public health coordination efforts.

Who We Are Looking For:
The ideal candidate will possess some or all of the following position-specific competencies in addition to the minimum qualifications listed below:

  • Financial Management:Prepares justifies and/or administers the budget for program areas; plans administers and monitors expenditures to ensure cost-effective support of programs and policies; assesses financial condition of an organization.
  • Organizational Awareness: Knows the organizations mission and functions and how its social political and technological systems work and operates effectively within them; this includes the programs policies procedures rules and regulations of the organization.
  • Program Oversight: Plans coordinates and monitors programs to ensure that federal state and/or local government program requirements and plans are met providing professional consultation on the specialized services of the program or associated project(s).

Special Notice:
  • A valid Drivers License is required at the time of appointment.


To view the general description and example of duties for this job class please go to the following link and search for Health Program Manager 4: Qualifications

Competency-Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions
This job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications.Please ensure your application(through work history volunteer experience (duties summary) training education licenses certifications etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge skills abilities and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Competency Description
The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge skills abilities (KSAs) tasks and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations instead of specific tasks and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competencys description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA task and behavior needed to meet the competency successfully but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

Please ensure your application (through work history training education licenses certifications etc.) supports/demonstrates you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with the competencies in:
  • Program Planning:Ensures state/Tribal/community health improvement planning uses community health assessments and other information related to the health of a community (e.g. current data and trends; proposed federal state and local legislation; commitments from organizations to act). Develops program goals and objectives.
  • Community Dimensions of Practice: Distinguishes the roles and responsibilities of governmental and non-governmental organizations in providing programs and services to improve the health of a community.
  • Partnering:Develops networks and builds alliances; collaborates across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals.
  • Public Health:Applies knowledge of the concepts principles theories methods and tools associated with protecting and improving the health of people and their communities including promoting healthy lifestyles researching disease and injury prevention and detecting preventing and responding to infectious diseases.
  • Human Capital Management:Builds and manages workforce based on organizational goals budget considerations and staffing needs. Ensures that employees are appropriately recruited selected appraised and rewarded; takes action to address performance problems. Manages a multi-sector workforce and a variety of work situations.
  • Leadership: Influences motivates and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.
  • Conflict Management: Encourages creative tension and differences of opinions. Anticipates and takes steps to prevent counter-productive confrontations. Manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a constructive manner.
Equivalent to those typically gained by:
A Bachelors degree from an accredited college in biological health or behavioral science; health practice; education; public healthcare or business administration; or a closely related field;
AND/OR
Progressively responsible professional supervisory experience performing health program planning development coordination evaluation or implementation; providing technical health care assistance and consultation; conducting health care utilization or quality assurance examinations; and/or delivering health care service.

Special Note:Agencies employing Health Program Managers are responsible for administering a wide range of medical behavioral and social health insurance programs for children and adults. Positions typically focus on a particular health area. Where licensure is required the job vacancy announcement will identify the type of license necessary to apply for that specific position. The essential functions of some positions may involve exposure to infectious disease and/or biohazards. Travel may be required.

Professional experience means work that is creative analytical evaluative and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the professions principles concepts theories and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to ones own judgment.

Progressively responsible means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity difficulty or level of responsibility.

Additional Required Information

At the time of the interview please provide the following:

  1. Three (3) professional references whom we may contact by phone one (1) of whom must be your current or most recent supervisor if not already provided in the application.
  2. Current performance evaluation if available.
  3. A copy of academic transcripts (unofficial is okay; please ensure that the institution name/URL is listed on the transcripts) is used to support that you meet the minimum qualification competencies.
  4. Email or bring a writing sample you authored that demonstrates your ability to communicate complex public health (or similar) information to a non-scientific or scientific audience.Please limit the length of the sample to no more than two pages.

If chosen for the position the candidate will be required to provide the following items before employment:

  1. A copy of your current drivers license.


Please read the information below carefully. This applies to your application submission.


SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS

For your application to be evaluated you mustanswer the Supplemental Questions.


The State of Alaska uses four proficiency levels to measure and describe an applicants level of competence in applying certain behaviors knowledge skills and abilities to accomplish a specific task. The four proficiency levels are Mastery Fluency Literacy and Discovery. You must rate your proficiency level for each competency listed in the supplemental questions.


EDUCATION
To verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies you must fill in the Education section of the application If you have not obtained a degree please indicate the number of units completed Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts) Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not transcripts will be required before employment.


SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION
If education is completed in a foreign college or university it may be used to meet the above requirements if applicable. If utilizing this education you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs or an accredited U.S. state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.The omission of the required documentation listed will result in an incomplete application and you will not receive further consideration.


WORK EXPERIENCE

When using work experience not documented in your application please provide the employers name job title employment dates and whether you worked full-time or part-time Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and if minimum qualifications are met Work experience needed to meet the minimum qualifications must be documented in the application If the application does not support minimum qualifications the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment A resume will not be used to determine that minimum qualifications have been met for the position you are applying for.


If you have currently or previously been appointed to a flexibly staffed position please ensure your work experience within a flexibly staffed position indicates the actual dates employed at each level Ensure your time and any subsequent flex promotion(s) are documented as a separate position This is required as minimum qualifications require experience at a particular level in which the lower level may not be considered If this information is not accurately reflected in your application this may cause the processing of your application for consideration to be delayed.

NOTE: Attaching a resume or curriculum vitae is not an alternative to filling out the application.Noting see resume or CV or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination that your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting.

The State of Alaska does not provide VISA Employer sponsorships.

MULTIPLE VACANCIES
This recruitment may be used for more than one (1) vacancy. The applicant pool acquired during this recruitment may be used for future vacancies for up to ninety (90) days after this recruitment closes. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply to each recruitment notice to ensure consideration for all vacancies.


APPLICATION NOTICE
You can ONLY apply for this position through the Workplace Alaska website or via a hard copy application. If you accessed this recruitment bulletin through a job search portal such as AlaskaJobs or another database you MUST use a Workplace Alaska online or hard-copy application to apply successfully. Instructions on how to apply with Workplace Alaska may be found on the Workplace Alaska How to Apply webpage found here:
Questions regarding the application process can be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at (toll-free) or (907) 465- 4095. If you choose to be contacted by email please ensure that your email address is correct on your application and that your spam filter will permit emails from the domain.For information on allowing emails from the domains visit the Lost Password Help page at State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities who require accommodations auxiliary aids or services or alternative communication formats please call 1- in Juneau or TTY: Alaska Relay 711 or 1- or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at P.O. Box 110201 Juneau AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal-opportunity employer.

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For specific information about the position feel free to contact the hiring manager at:


Joseph McLaughlin/State Epidemiologist/Section Chief

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Job DescriptionThis Individual Position is Exempt from the Hiring Freeze. Qualified Applicants are Encouraged To Apply.Welcome to the Department of Health!Wed be delighted to have you join our team.If you envision yourself in this role and are ready to start an exciting career with us apply today!Th...
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