Director of Community Assessment, Planning and Evaluation

THIS IS A NEW ASSEMBLED EXAMINATION. The eligible list resulting from this examination will cancel any existing list and may last approximately one year, but can be extended.

Applications must be in the possession of the Human Resource Services Department by 5:00 p.m. on the Last Day for Filing. Applications will only be accepted on-line.

Supplemental Questionnaire: A properly completed Supplemental Questionnaire must be submitted with each application. Applications and Supplemental Questionnaires must be in the possession of the Human Resource Services Department by 5:00 p.m. on the Last Day for Filing. Failure to submit the Application or Supplemental Questionnaire will result in disqualification.

HEALTH CARE SERVICES AGENCY
Alameda County's Health Services Program is administered by the Health Care Services Agency and includes the following program areas: Behavioral Health Care, Public Health, Environmental Health, and the Office of the Agency Director. The ultimate mission of the Health Care Services Agency is to provide fully integrated health care services through a comprehensive network of public and private partnerships that ensure optimal health and well-being and respect the diversity of all residents.

PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Alameda County Public Health Department has worked for over 80 years to improve the health and safety of its residents and the neighborhoods they live in. Traditional public health concerns such as disease outbreaks, environmental hazards and access to health care have been joined by contemporary concerns: bioterrorism, crime, violence, and substance abuse. Each of these poses a threat to public health and wellness and calls for short and long-term solutions that lie well outside traditional public health boundaries.  For more information about our Alameda County Public Health Department, please visit the Alameda County Public Health Department Website and latest Annual Budget document found on www.acgov.org

THIS POSITION
This is a single-position classification,  responsible for planning, developing, organizing and administering the activities and staff of the Community Assessment, Planning and Evaluation (CAPE) Division of the Public Health Department. This position reports to the Director of Health and Business Data Analytics and the County Health Officer.

For more detailed information about this job classification click here.  

THE VACANCY
There is currently one vacancy located in the Community Assessment, Planning and Evaluation (CAPE) Division of the Public Health Department.

COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT, PLANNING AND EVALUATION (CAPE) DIVISION
CAPE’s mission is to provide information, evaluation, education and technical assistance to programs, community partners, decision makers and residents in order to improve community health and address the root causes of health inequities. CAPE works to accomplish it’s mission by monitoring population health and social data, presenting health and social data in a way that is impactful, providing technical assistance for and leading program evaluation, providing information to support planning and policy advocacy, and facilitating the development of HCSA-wide systems for measuring success.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
In addition to the minimum qualifications and knowledge and skills listed below, the ideal candidate for this position will have demonstrated a track record of success supervising staff and working with groups who gather, analyze and report on health and social information from a variety of sources, as well as experience working with program managers, policy makers and leadership both inside and outside of a health care services or public health agency. The ideal candidate will also possess exceptional oral and written communication skills, attentive listening, and curiosity, particularly in regards to how systems work.

Additionally, the ideal candidate will have the:

• Aptitude to convert complex information into clear presentation deliverables;
• Capacity to understand systems thinking and use it to inform and conduct daily work;
• Ability to coordinate and manage work with multiple competing priorities or perspectives;
• Ability to easily guide others in accomplishing work objectives;
• Competence to develop and maintain professional relationships, and use knowledge of the organizational culture in making decisions;
• Ability to work effectively with individuals of diverse cultures, interpersonal styles, abilities and motivations or backgrounds;
• Ability to maintain effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusting effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements or cultures;
• Experience and expertise required to leverage knowledge and develop, advocate and implement plans to achieve organizational goals.

Education:

Possession of a Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in public health, epidemiology, or a closely related field.

AND EITHER I

Experience:

The equivalent of three (3) years full-time experience in the class of Supervising Program Specialist, or an equivalent or higher level classification, responsible for supervising epidemiology research or surveillance-related work, in the Alameda County classified service.

OR II

Experience:

The equivalent of five (5) years full-time experience in the supervision of staff performing research or surveillance-related work, including experience with budget and contract management, grant proposal writing, program evaluation, and collaboration with community groups to conduct assessment and mobilization activities.

Substitution:

Possession of a Doctorate degree from an accredited college or university in epidemiology, biostatistics or another closely related field in public health may be substituted for two years of the required experience from either pattern above.

License:

Possession of a valid California Class C driver’s license and a satisfactory driving history as obtained from the Department of Motor Vehicles.

NOTE: The Civil Service Commission may modify the above Minimum Qualifications in the announcement of an examination.

The most suitably qualified candidates will possess the following competencies:

Knowledge of:

• Principles and practices of public health, including current trends in policy, research, treatment, prevention, education and related issues.
• Laws, codes, and regulations governing public health issues.
• Principles and methods of epidemiology, bio-statistics and demography.
• Principles and procedures of epidemiology research, including survey design, data management and statistical analysis.
• Theories, practices and applications of epidemiological methodologies, including methods used in specialized fields.
• Management principles and practices, including work planning, evaluation, supervision and resource allocation.
• Principles of public administration.
• Strengths and limitations of prospective, retrospective and cross-sectional studies.
• Federal, state and local laws, regulations and policies governing the use of public health data.
• Program evaluation methodologies and management analysis.
• Statistical analysis software, and other computer applications related to the work.

Ability to:

• Plan and organize.
• Analyze and problem solve.
• Provide leadership and model an understanding of one’s own influence and demonstrates political astuteness in moving forward the mission of the organization. .
• Make decisions about policies and programs that address inequities and improve public health based on need, evidence and community input.
• Manage a diverse staff effectively.
• Facilitate and ensure effective written and oral communication with attention to linguistic preferences and cultural proficiency.
• Employ effective interpersonal and group interaction skills, including cultural humility, social and emotional intelligence.
• Analyze a budget.
• Manage multiple and changing priorities.
• Be flexible.
• Adapt to stress.
• Incorporate and ensure adherence to departmental core values and ethical standards of practice into all interactions with individuals, organization, and communities.

The examination will consist of the following steps: A review of candidates' applications to verify possession of minimum requirements. Those candidates who possess the minimum requirements for the class will move on to the next step in the examination process which is a review of candidates' Supplemental Questionnaires to select the best qualified applicants to continue in the process. Those candidates selected as best qualified will move on to the next step in the examination process, an oral interview which will be weighted as 100% of the candidate's final examination score. The oral interview may contain situational exercises. CANDIDATES MUST ATTAIN A QUALIFYING RATING ON EACH PORTION OF THIS EXAMINATION. We reserve the right to make changes to the announced examination components.

Alameda County utilizes a Civil Service Selection System founded on merit. Such a system is competitive and based on broad recruitment efforts and equal opportunity for qualified applicants to test in an examination process designed to determine the qualifications, fitness and ability of competitors to perform duties of the vacant position.  Many of our recruitments are targeted and specific to the needs of a current vacant position, in which case, the eligible list may be exclusively used for that current vacant position. Other recruitments may be more broadly used for both current and future vacancies, or for other alternate jobs with comparable scopes of work.

To learn more about our recruitment and selection process, please visit the “What You Need to Know” section of our website, www.acgov.org/hrs.  

Applicants will be informed via email with reasonable notice in advance of any examination process which will require their attendance. The following dates are tentative and subject to change based on the needs of the Agency:

TENTATIVE SELECTION PLAN

Deadline for Filing:                                                                 5:00pm, Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Review of Minimum Qualifications:                                                Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Review of SQ for Best Qualified:                                                         Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Panel Interviews:                                                                                          Tuesday, April 3, 2018

*The combined oral examination/hiring interview, in addition to establishing an eligibility list, may serve as the final selection interview for vacancies in this classification.

Alameda County and the Human Resource Services Department will make reasonable efforts in the examination and/or selection process to accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities and/or medical conditions in accordance/compliance with the State Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), Federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Alameda County’s Reasonable Accommodation Policy and applicable statutes. To request an accommodation due to a disability/medical condition during this or other phases of the examination/selection process, please contact the assigned Human Resources Representative listed on the job announcement before the last date of filing. Alameda County requires applicants to provide supporting documentation to substantiate a request for reasonable accommodation. In order to qualify for a reasonable accommodation, applicants must have a disability/medical condition pursuant to the ADA, FEHA and applicable statutes.

For more information regarding our Reasonable Accommodation procedures, please visit our website, www.acgov.org/hrs  

Alameda County offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that affords wide-ranging health care options to meet the different needs of a diverse workforce and their families. We also sponsor many different employee discount, fitness and health screening programs focused on overall well being.  These benefits include but are not limited to*:

For your Health & Well-Being

• Medical – HMO & PPO Plans
• Dental – HMO & PPO Plans
• Vision or Vision Reimbursement
• Share the Savings
• Basic Life Insurance 
• Supplemental Life Insurance (with optional dependent coverage for eligible employees)
• Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance 
• County Allowance Credit
• Flexible Spending Accounts - Health FSA, Dependent Care and Adoption Assistance
• Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Voluntary Benefits - Accident Insurance, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity and Legal Services
• Employee Assistance Program

For your Financial Future

• Retirement Plan - (Defined Benefit Pension Plan)
• Deferred Compensation Plan (457 Plan or Roth Plan)

For your Work/Life Balance

• 11 paid holidays
• Floating Holidays
• Vacation and sick leave accrual
• Vacation purchase program
• Management Paid Leave**
• Catastrophic Sick Leave
• Employee Mortgage Loan Program
• Group Auto/Home Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Commuter Benefits Program
• Guaranteed Ride Home
• Employee Wellness Program (e.g. At Work Fitness, Incentive Based Programs, Gym Membership Discounts)
• Employee Discount Program (e.g. theme parks, cell phone, etc.)
• Child Care Resources
• 1^st United Services Credit Union 

*Eligibility is determined by Alameda County and offerings may vary by collective bargaining agreement.  This provides a brief summary of the benefits offered and can be subject to change.

** Non-exempt management employees are entitled to up to three days of management paid leave. Exempt management employees are entitled to up to seven days of management paid leave.

All notices related to County recruitments for which you have applied will be sent/delivered via email. Please add @acgov.org and alamedacountyHR@acgov.org as accepted addresses to any email blocking or spam filtering program you may use. If you do not do this, your email blocking or spam filtering program may block receipt of the notices regarding your application for recruitments. You are also strongly advised to regularly log into your County of Alameda online application account to check for notices that may have been sent to you. All email notices that will be sent to you will also be kept in your personal online application account. You will be able to view all of your notices in your online application account by clicking on the "My applications" button on the Current Job Openings page. 

Please take the steps recommended above to ensure you do not miss any notices about a recruitment for which you have applied. The County of Alameda is not responsible for notices that are not read, received or accessed by any applicant for a County recruitment.

NOTE: All notices are generated through an automated email notification system. Replies to the email box alamedacountyHR@acgov.org are routed to an unmonitored mailbox. All notices are generated through an automated email notification system. Replies to the email box are routed to an unmonitored mailbox. If you have questions please go to our website at www.acgov.org/hrs. You may also contact the Human Resources Analyst listed on the job announcement for the recruitment for which you have applied.

Lindsay Christopher, Human Resources Analyst
Human Resource Services, County of Alameda
510-272-6393 | Lindsay.christopher@acgov.org

Alameda County is an Equal Opportunity Employer