Supplemental Information
This position is located within the Louisiana Department of Health / Office of Aging and Adult Services / Headquarters / East Baton Rouge Parish
Announcement Number: OAAS/SP/173606
Cost Center: 3201010200
Position Number(s): 166948
This vacancy is being announced as a Classified position and may be filled as a Job appointment, Probationary, Promotional or Detail to Special Duty appointment.
(Job appointments are temporary appointments that may last up to 48 months)
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
NOTE: regarding the advertised pay range: The maximum amount listed for this job title is the maximum salary a person can make as they gain experience in the position. It is not the maximum amount that we are allowed to pay a new hire.
Occupational Summary
The Office of Aging and Adult Services (OAAS) has an opening for a Deputy Assistant Secretary. This position will be located at the OAAS headquarters office in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The incumbent in this position will be responsible for leading the business operations statewide in continuing to facilitate high quality care in serving elderly and disabled adults. The incumbent will serve OAAS in this position by ensuring the financial processes and budget activities support the programmatic needs of the organizations. The oversight of staff include the functions of personnel, procurement, budget, disaster emergency response, Adult Protective Services, the Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord Injury Program and business function support of Villa Feliciana Medical Center. Data driven assessment of the needs and the management of funding for those needs supports the agency\'s mission and provides for the development of mitigation strategies to reduce risk and increase quality of care; contracting assistance where resources are limited, while proactively managing the funds provided.
The expectation for this role is to support the Assistant Secretary and to provide that OAAS is a good steward of state funds and federal funds that are utilized in providing supports to vulnerable individuals that live in our state\'s communities and nursing facilities. The functional areas of work are largely administrative in nature, as this role is the leader of financial activities of the agency. This incumbent will report to the Assistant Secretary of OAAS. The incumbent will interface with programmatic and administrative staff, as well as LDH Executive leadership and other LDH agencies with an objective of ensuring the office priorities are aligned with the organizational priorities and that OAAS is operating at an optimal level of service and support.
The ideal candidate will have working knowledge of state systems, LDH organizational structure, the LAGOV financial system, state budget processes, and assessment and care of the elderly and disabled adults. Preference will be given to applicants with professional leadership experience.
Skillset characteristics include:
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