Executive Officer 2 Youth Behavioral Health

Salary : $65,395.20 - $101,150.40 Annually
Location : Des Moines - 50319 - Polk County, IA
Job Type: Full-time
Job Number: 24-02966
Agency: 401 Health & Human Services - Central Office
Opening Date: 03/06/2024
Closing Date: 3/26/2024 11:59 PM Central
LinkedIn Tag: #LI-POST
Point of Contact: Deann Decker, deann.decker@idph.iowa.gov
Job Description
Only applicants who meet the Minimum Qualification Requirements and meet all selective requirements (listed below) will be placed on the eligible list.
The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Division of Behavioral Health (BH) is seeking a knowledgeable, dynamic, professional to fill the position of Executive Officer 2 (EO2) over Mental Health Initiatives. There will be ongoing collaboration with community partners and service providers. The Project Director will act as liaison between recovery and treatment systems of administration and care. They will be familiar with and work in collaboration with the contract managers to facilitate timely and accurate contracts.
-Direct and coordinate all Youth Behavioral Health projects.
-Designs projects that increase access to services and improve the quality of services for youth.
-Develop and recommend solutions for resolving priority items that have been identified to improve publicly funded youth mental health services.
-Ensure budget oversight, service development and delivery, training and implementation, quality improvement, policy development and operations.
-Develop, coordinate and expand crisis outreach, engagement and case management services for youth and their families interested in engaging in substance use disorder and mental health treatment and recovery.
-Collaborate with local, state and federal partners.
-Continually assess and refines system gaps.
-Ensure best practices are implemented in all participating agencies.
-Identify models of best practice for youth to expand access to care and create pilot projects with the purpose of successful and timely engagement and admission to treatment and/or recovery systems.
-Analyze a variety of information and recommend priority items that are the most important to address and improve the accessibility, effectiveness, quality and individual centered of publicly funded mental health services that will have the most beneficial effect for youth and their families.
-Ensure that the action plan is implemented and achieves the desired results of improvement for youth, their families, mental health providers and policy makers.
Selectives
397 Mental Health
6 months' experience in providing service, treatment or assessment to those affected by mental health challenges, either in a private setting, group homes, local assistance agencies, or state or privately-run treatment institutions. Application must demonstrate that applicant has received a general orientation to the symptoms and treatment protocols for mental illness or public policies, procedures, or applicable laws related to the topic, or assistance programs for those affected by mental illness. Experience may come from public, private or non-profit organizations.
OR
663 Substance Abuse Programs
6 months' experience, 12 semester hours, or a combination of both in prevention programs, clinical substance abuse, or preventative abuse (counselors, treatment workers) that includes: • Applicants who develop and/or present programs designed to inform a population on the use, abuse, and dependency of alcohol or other drugs. • Initiation, design and/or review of education curriculums, which include alcohol/drug, related information (pharmacology, reasons for use, chemical dependency, etc.). • Presentations to professionals, community organizations, youth in school, on chemical dependency. • Preparation of media campaigns, including newspaper articles and public service announcements on prevention of substance abuse. • Training of youth, parents, and professionals in assertiveness training ("saying no" strategies), communication skills, assertive discipline, decision-making, peer helping, employee assistance programming, and/or student assistance programming. • Consultation with community organizations or other human service providers to develop prevention programming. • Provide OWI classes to first-time offenders. • Inform the public of the effects of chemical dependency on families.
AND
535 Public Health
6 months' experience, 12 semester hours, or a combination of both related to improving, maintaining, and protecting the general condition of health within society, either on a personal, institutional, organizational, or community basis. Experience may be gained from direct provision of health care or from other ancillary programs and support mechanisms such as government public health departments.
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Applicants must meet at least one of the following minimum requirements to qualify for positions in this job classification:
1) Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a degree in any field, and experience equal to four years of full-time professional-level work in program administration, program development, program operations , or management.
2) A total of eight years of education and/or full-time experience (as described in number one), where thirty semester hours of accredited college or university course work in any field equals one year of full-time experience.
3) All of the following (a, b, and c):
a. Two years of full-time professional-level work experience in program administration, program development, program operations , or management; and
b. A total of four years of education and full-time experience (as described in part a), where thirty semester hours of accredited college or university course work in any field equals one year of full-time experience; and
c. A total of two years of graduate-level education and full-time experience (as described in part a), where twenty-four semester hours of accredited graduate college or university course work in a public-service-related area (e.g., public or business administration, social work, public health, law, education, engineering) equals one year of full-time experience. Graduation from the Iowa Certified Public Manager Program is also equivalent to one year of full-time experience or education.
4) Current, continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes twelve months of full-time work as an Executive Officer 1 or comparable specific management-level position.
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