Job Description

What you will be doing:
This is a new multifaceted position within the Division of Senior & Disabilities Services (SDS) Provider Certification and Compliance (PCC) Unit. In this role, you will work closely with internal and external division partners to develop regulations, service delivery standards, qualified provider criteria, and ongoing quality and compliance monitoring for SDS’s new home and community-based Medicaid-funded adult host home service.

You will ensure compliance with state and federal requirements for all Home and community-based programs. This will involve reviewing and analyzing provider documentation, issuing determinations on certification applications, tracking and trending issues with providers, making recommendations for quality improvement activities, and conducting program compliance monitoring through the provider desk and onsite reviews.

Our organization, mission, and culture:
Our mission is to promote health, well-being, and safety for individuals with disabilities, seniors, and vulnerable adults by facilitating access to quality services and supports that foster independence, personal choice, and dignity.

Provider Certification and Compliance staff contribute to the division's mission by evaluating providers' ability to provide quality care to Alaska’s most vulnerable and ensuring they have ongoing compliance support.

The benefits of joining our team:
In this position, you will work with a talented, dedicated, and professional team driven to ensure quality services are provided to Alaska’s most vulnerable citizens so they can thrive in their home communities. Working within a team of ten staff and in very close collaboration with other teams at SDS as well as other partner agencies, there is ample opportunity to have a positive impact on the lives of Alaskans as well as gain valuable professional experience in the field of Medicaid compliance, certification, and quality assurance. We would love to have you join us!

The working environment you can expect:
This position is in East Anchorage, next to East High School. Under a hybrid telework model, work hours can be flexible within the general state hours of operation. This position is primarily office-based, but some local and in-state travel may be required.

Who we are looking for:

To be successful in the position, the candidate will need the following core competencies:

• Compliance: Experience with and/or a close familiarity with Medicaid and Waiver programs and systems, or similar health care services and delivery systems, and knowledge of procedures for assessing, evaluating, and monitoring programs or projects for compliance with State and federal laws, regulations, and guidance.
• Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: Uses a logical, systematic, and sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one’s knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
• Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences.

A cover letter is NOT required for this position. Your complete application, including supplemental questions, will be used to determine which applicants will advance to the interview phase of the recruitment and selection process.

Special Notice:

• This position requires infrequent local and in-state by either automobile or aircraft in all weather conditions.

To view the general description and example of duties for a Health Program Manager 2, please go to the following link: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/ classspecs

Minimum Qualifications

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, as opposed to specific tasks, and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency 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 (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.

• Analysis and Assessment: Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information.
• Writing: Recognizes or uses correct English grammar, punctuation, and spelling; communicates information (e.g., facts, ideas, or messages) in a succinct and organized manner; produces written information, which may include technical material and information that is appropriate for the intended audience.
• 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.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:
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 profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment.

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

Additional Required Information

At time of interview applicant(s) are requested to submit:

• Copies of your two (2) most recent performance evaluations, if available. If unavailable, two supervisory letters of reference may be substituted.
• 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.

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

SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS

For your application to be evaluated, you must answer the Supplemental Questions.

The State of Alaska uses four proficiency levels to measure and describe an applicant’s 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.

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