What are the responsibilities and job description for the Management Analyst 1-2 position at State of Louisiana?
Department MISSION
DCFS is working to keep children safe, helping individuals and families become self-sufficient, and providing safe refuge during disasters.
Department VISION
We care for the well-being and safety of Louisiana's people.
Department VALUES
Treating all people with dignity, compassion and respect, while providing services with integrity.
AN IDEAL CANDIDATE SHOULD POSSESS THE FOLLOWING COMPETENCIES:
Selected Core Competencies:
- Leading Change: The ability to initiate, manage, influence, and evaluate change.
- Learning Actively: The ability to acquire necessary knowledge and skills to improve performance and achieve organizational goals.
- Using Data: The ability to use relevant and valid data to inform a recommendation for action.
Selected Preferred Competencies:
- Accepting Direction: The ability to accept and follow directions from those higher in the chain of command.
- Acting with Ethics and Integrity: The ability to be consistent, honest, and a trustworthy steward of State resources.
- Adapting to Change: The ability to adjust plans, expectations, and behaviors in response to change.
- 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.
- Following Policies and Procedures: The ability to comply with policies and procedures of the organization as well as State Civil Service rules, and all applicable federal and state laws.
- Managing Time: The ability to control your time to increase effectiveness, efficiency, or productivity.
This vacancy is located in the DCFS Child Welfare Federal Program and Grants Unit - East Baton Rouge parish.
Preferred Experience:
Knowledge of Title IV-E or Medicaid eligibility requirements
Experience in Title IV-E, Foster Care or Adoptions programs
Knowledge of DCFS Child Welfare or LDH data systems, i.e. TIPS, FATS, CAFÉ, LAMI, LASES, LaMEDS
Experience using Microsoft Excel reports
This position may be filled as a probational appointment or a job appointment that may last up to 48 months. Job appointments may convert to probational appointments. Also, it may be filled as a detail and promoted within 12 months.
You must include all relevant education and experience on your official State application.
Resumes cannot be submitted in lieu of completing an application.
The duties that you describe in the Work Experience section of your application will be reviewed by State Civil Service as part of the process in determining if you meet the minimum qualifications for this job.
Your experience WILL NOT be evaluated based on the job title alone. You must describe your actual duties. If you are a current employee of the State of Louisiana it is important that you indicate in the “Duties” section for each job the specific programs that you worked in to receive credit for that experience.
List all prior employment. Work experience left off of your electronic application or only included in an attached resume will not be credited. Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Applicants qualifying based on college training or receipt of a baccalaureate degree will be required to submit an official college transcript to verify credentials claimed prior to appointment. Please make every effort to attach a copy of your transcript to your application. The transcripts can be added as an attachment to your online application. The selected candidate will be required to submit original documentation upon hire.
As part of a Career Progression Group, vacancies may be filled from this recruitment as a Management Analyst 1 or 2 depending on the level of experience of the selected applicant(s). Please refer to the 'Job Specifications' tab located at the top of the LA Careers 'Current Job Opportunities' page of the Civil Service website for specific information on salary ranges, minimum qualifications and job concepts for each level.
No Civil Service test score or assessment is required 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.
DCFS is an "Equal Opportunity Employer" and Louisiana is a "State as a Model Employer for People with Disabilities".
For additional information about this vacancy, please contact Cassondra.Johnson.DCFS@La.Gov.MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Four years of experience in administrative services, health services, social services, or engineering; OR
Six years of full-time work experience in any field plus one year of experience in administrative services, health services, social services, or engineering; OR
A bachelor's degree plus one year of experience in administrative services, health services, social services, or engineering; OR
An advanced degree or a Juris Doctorate.
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.Function of Work:
To analyze agency management policies, procedures, practices, methods, and systems to provide administrative officials with information and recommendations for the most efficient utilization of resources.
Level of Work:
Experienced.
Supervision Received:
General from a Management Analyst 2, or agency administrator or official.
Supervision Exercised:
None.
Location of Work:
May be used by all state agencies.
Job Distinctions:
Differs from Management Analyst 2 by lack of accountability for recommendations made to management.Performs analytical work in the evaluation of management operations in a state department.
Obtains and analyzes data concerning programs or operation, scope and goals, and the policies, practices, methods and procedures used to implement and maintain programs.
Conducts management studies of organizations, duty assignments of employees, administrative control systems and impact of programs.
Obtains and evaluates data on personnel, equipment, material and space utilization.
Makes work simplification, measurement and related studies to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the agency or program assigned.
Assists in the implementation of new management procedures or program improvements.
Participates in training or retraining as necessary.
Prepares reports on studies and makes recommendations for changes.
Salary : $2,784 - $5,460
