Medicaid Assistant Regional Administrator

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Medicaid Assistant Regional Administrator

Salary

$4,784.00 - $8,608.00 Monthly

Location

New Orleans, LA

Job Type

Promotion

Job Number

MVA/PJ/206321

Department

LDH-Medical Vendor Administration

Opening Date

02/26/2025

Closing Date

3/5/2025 11:59 PM Central

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Supplemental Information

The Louisiana Department of Health is dedicated to fulfilling its mission through direct provision of quality services, the development and stimulation of services of others, and the utilization of available resources in the most effective manner.

LDH serves as a model employer for individuals with disabilities.

About this position:

This position is located within the Louisiana Department of Health / Medical Vendor Administration / Eligibility Field Operations / Region 1 / Orleans Parish

Announcement Number: MVA/PJ/206321

Cost Center: 305-2050402

Position Number(s): 50332108

This vacancy is being announced as a Classified position and will be filled as a Promotional appointment of a current classified LDH employee.

AN IDEAL CANDIDATE SHOULD POSSESS THE FOLLLOWING COMPETENCIES:

Acting Decisively: The ability to make decisions quickly and effectively.

Adapting to Change: The ability to adjust plans, expectations, and behaviors in response to change.

Building and Supporting Teams: The ability to combine your actions and efforts with others to work toward achieving a common goal.

Communicating Effectively: The ability to relay information correctly and appropriately to connect people and ideas.

Demonstrating Accountability: The ability to accept ownership for your actions, behaviors, performance, and decisions.

Demonstrating Courage: The ability to apply moral, disciplined, intellectual and/or empathetic courage to do something challenging, difficult, or uncomfortable

Demonstrating Initiative: The ability to assess information and take action independently to help the organization achieve its goals.

Displaying Professionalism: The ability to recognize how your actions impact the perceptions of both you and your organization.

Driving Results: The ability to identify important goals and work to achieve them.

Managing Conflict: The ability to recognize and navigate disagreements in a rational, unbiased, and productive way.

No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy, click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

• Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete. *

  For further information about this vacancy contact:

  Paula Jackson

  paula.jackson@la.gov

  LDH/HUMAN RESOURCES

  BATON ROUGE, LA 70821

This organization participates in E-verify, and for more information on E-verify, please contact DHS at 1-888-464-4218.

Minimum Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Two years of the required experience for the following minimum qualifications must have been at the supervisory level or above:

Eight years of social services experience; OR

Six years of full-time experience in any field plus five years of social services experience; OR

A bachelor's degree plus five years of social services experience; OR

An advanced degree plus four years of social services experience.

EXPERIENCE SUBSTITUTION:

Every 30 semester hours earned from an accredited college or university will be credited as one year of experience towards the six years of full-time work experience in any field. The maximum substitution allowed is 120 semester hours which substitutes for a maximum of four years of experience in any field.

Job Concepts

FUNCTION OF WORK:

To serve as assistant administrator for a region of the state.

LEVEL OF WORK:

Administrator.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:

A Medicaid Assistant Regional Administrator typically reports to a Medicaid Regional Administrator.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:

Subordinate staff typically includes Medicaid Area Managers. May supervise lower level personnel.

LOCATION OF WORK:

Department of Health and Hospitals, Medical Vendor Administration.

JOB DISTINCTIONS:

Differs from Medicaid Area Manager 2 by the presence of responsibility for assisting with regional administration of Medicaid eligibility activities.

Differs from Medicaid Regional Administrator by the absence of overall responsibility for Medicaid eligibility activities in a region.

Examples of Work

Directs aspects of the regional execution of Medicaid eligibility programs with broad guidance and consultation from a regional administrator by establishing priorities, evaluating efficiency, quality, and compliance with federal and state regulations, and taking corrective action as necessary. Assists with the determination and/or preparation of regional annual budget requests, oversight of fiscal matters, and physical plant management for a regional facility and all local branch units within a region. May act as regional administrator when called upon to do so and/or in emergency situations.

Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.

As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:

Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/

Parental Leave– Up to six weeks paid parental leave

More information can be found athttps://www.civilservice.louisiana.gov/Parental-Leave/Default.aspx

Holidays and Leave – State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:

• New Year's Day

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,

• Mardi Gras,

• Good Friday,

• Memorial Day,

• Independence Day,

• Labor Day,

• Veteran's Day,

• Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

* Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor

State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.

Retirement – State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):

• Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Your_Retirement_System.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system

• Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),

• Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others

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  AD: Rate your ability to act decisively based on our definition: The ability to make decisions quickly and effectively.

• 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable acting decisively

• 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to act decisively

• 3= I can act decisively

• 4= I can act decisively and help others improve their ability to act decisively

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  AC: Rate your ability to adapt to change based on our definition: The ability to adjust plans, expectations, and behaviors in response to change.

• 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable adapting to change

• 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to adapt to change

• 3= I can adapt to change

• 4= I can adapt to change and help others improve their ability to adapt to change

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  DA: Rate your ability to demonstrate accountability based on our definition: The ability to accept ownership for your actions, behaviors, performance, and decisions.

• 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable demonstrating accountability

• 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to demonstrate accountability

• 3= I can demonstrate accountability

• 4= I can demonstrate accountability and help others improve their ability to demonstrate accountability

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  DC: Rate your ability to demonstrate courage based on our definition: The ability to apply moral, disciplined, intellectual and/or empathetic courage to do something challenging, difficult, or uncomfortable.

• 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable demonstrating courage

• 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to demonstrate courage

• 3= I can demonstrate courage

• 4= I can demonstrate courage and help others improve their ability to demonstrate courage

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  MC: Rate your ability to manage conflict based on our definition: The ability to recognize and navigate disagreements in a rational, unbiased, and productive way.

• 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable managing conflict

• 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to manage conflict

• 3= I can manage conflict

• 4= I can manage conflict and help others improve their ability to manage conflict

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  Are you a current permanent LDH employee?

• Yes

• No

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Employer

State of Louisiana

Address

For agency contact information, please refer to

the supplemental information above.

Louisiana State Civil Service, Louisiana, 70802

Phone

(866) 783-5462

Website

http://agency.governmentjobs.com/louisiana/default.cfm

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