Strategic Alignment Specialist

The position supports the California Department of Public Health’s (CDPH) mission and strategic plan enhancing preparedness and response for emerging public health threats through provision of leadership, guidance, and advance coordination and collaboration across a variety of complex program areas including policy, equity, public health practice, communications, access to clinical expertise, epidemiology, and pursuit of funding opportunities.

THIS IS A STATEWIDE RECRUITMENT. THE CANDIDATE WILL BE HEADQUARTERED IN THE COUNTY NEAREST THE RESIDENCE OF THE SELECTED CANDIDATE. THE COUNTIES ARE:  Sacramento and Contra Costa

This is a remote-based position with up to 20% (approximately 1 day per week/4 days per month but may vary depending on need and scheduling with local partners) of travel required to assigned Local Health Jurisdictions (LHJs).

The Health Program Specialist II (HPS II) is responsible for coordinating and providing technical expertise within the Regional Public Health Office on high-level policy, workforce development, and communications activities that promote program alignment and cross-functional team coordination. The HPS II is responsible for ensuring coordination between RPHO leadership and staff and is responsible for activities and deliverables related to the Office’s vision, priorities, goals, and strategies including logistics, reporting, and evaluation requirements. The HPS II facilitates coordination and development of strategies within RPHO to develop policy guidelines, standardize processes, and highlight best practices to support RPHO’s partnership with local health jurisdictions, other Centers, Divisions and Offices within CDPH as appropriate and needed, and local public health regions. The Strategic Alignment Specialist will respond to often urgent, time-sensitive inquiries, and works with RPHO functional teams, including regional program coordinators, program specialists, public information officers, research scientists, and business operations leadership and staff to align functional activities, avoid duplication of effort, and ensure efficient operations.

Desirable Qualifications

In addition to evaluating each candidate's relative ability, as demonstrated by quality and breadth of experience, the following factors will provide the basis for competitively evaluating each candidate:

• Knowledge of and experience with local and regional communities in California; including experience with or at local health departments
• Able to work with and lead multi-disciplinary teams.
• Communicate with and convene a large group of internal and external stakeholders, including state and local program representatives and senior department leadership.
• Ability to identify and resolve a broad range of complex governmental and programmatic challenges.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead and manage multiple projects and daily tasks.
• Equity-minded, responsive, and sensitive to diverse populations
• Ability to assess issues and quickly identify the best possible solution(s)
• Possess excellent and effective written and oral communication skills
• Ability to collaborate with others.
• Ability to establish and foster relationships with partners.
• Ability to formulate and train on policies, procedures, and workflow.
• Ability to analyze program situations and develop effective courses of action to solve them.
• Attentive to details/
• Intermediate MS Office Suite expertise- Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Proficient in virtual meeting platforms.

How To Apply

Complete Application Packages (including your Examination/Employment Application (STD 678) and applicable or required documents) must be submitted to apply for this Job Posting. Application Packages may be submitted electronically through your CalCareer Account at www.CalCareers.ca.gov. When submitting your application in hard copy, a completed copy of the Application Package listing must be included.

At the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), equity, diversity, and inclusion are at the core of our mission to advance the health and well-being of California’s diverse people and communities. We are genuinely and strongly committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness where we can grow and learn together with a diverse team of employees. In recruiting for team members, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring to us and the work we do.