GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS CONSULTANT I - 64005418
About The Position
This is a professional position within the Division of Disease Control & Health Protection; Contracts Unit of the Division Director’s Office, Operation & Management Section. This position is responsible for serving as contract manager for assigned state health office contracts. The role involves managing current and future contracts, including negotiation assistance, administering, enforcing terms and conditions, facilitating extensions, renewals, and closeouts. The consultant is responsible for reporting requirements and compiling necessary documents for funded programs, as well as providing technical assistance to providers for inquiries and information. Key duties include assisting in the development of contract provider budgets, budget amendments, invoicing, and payment processing and tracking, while maintaining records of action in progress. The position ensures ongoing quality assurance through monthly programmatic desk audit reviews and annual on-site programmatic monitoring of all assigned contracts to assess compliance. It also involves conducting administrative monitoring to assure compliance with state and federal laws (e.g., corporations, public records, E-Verify, EEO, Pro-Child Indoor Act of 1994, Record Retention, Insurance, HIPAA, subcontracts) and fiscal monitoring, including quarterly expenditure review, testing, and fiscal year-end reconciliation. The consultant will also provide technical assistance and facilitate training to County Health Department contract management and program staff as needed.
Requirements
- Knowledge of basic management principles and practices
- Knowledge of the methods of data collection and analysis
- Ability to coordinate a consultative program designed to ensure the resolution of managerial and operational problems
- Ability to determine work priorities and ensure proper completion of work assignments
- Ability to communicate effectively
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others
- Ability to assess budgetary needs
- Ability to formulate policies and procedures
- Ability to understand and apply applicable rules, regulations, policies and procedures relating to operational and management analysis activities
- Ability to organize data into logical format for presentation in reports, documents and other written materials
- Ability to collect, evaluate and analyze data to develop alternative recommendations, solve problems, document work and other activities relating to the improvement of operational and management practices
- Ability to conduct fact-finding research
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to solve problems and make decisions
Nice To Haves
- Contract management experience
- Florida Certified Contract Manager
Responsibilities
- Serve as contract manager for assigned state health office contracts.
- Manage current/future contracts including negotiation assistance, administering, enforcing contract terms and conditions, facilitating contract extensions, facilitating contract renewals and contract closeout.
- Responsible for reporting requirements and compilation of all necessary documents for funded programs.
- Responsible for providing or facilitating technical assistance to providers to answer inquiries and provide information as requested and appropriate.
- Responsible for assisting in the development of contract provider budgets, budget amendments, invoicing, and payment processing and tracking.
- Maintains records to show status of action in progress.
- Ensure ongoing quality assurance by facilitating, on a monthly-basis, programmatic desk audit reviews on all assigned contracts.
- Responsible for facilitating on-site programmatic monitoring on an annual basis on all assigned contracts to assess compliance with contractual terms and conditions.
- Responsible for conducting, via desk-review or on-site, an administrative monitoring on all assigned contracts to assure compliance with state and federal law pertaining to corporations, public records, E-Verify, Equal Employment Opportunity, Pro-Child Indoor Act of 1994, Record Retention, Insurance, Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act, and subcontracts.
- Responsible for conducting fiscal monitoring on all assigned contracts including quarterly expenditure review and testing and fiscal year-end reconciliation.
- Provide technical assistance and facilitate training to County Health Department contract management and program staff, as necessary and appropriate, in carrying out their contract management responsibilities.
- Other duties as assigned, including providing assistance as needed in response to and recovery following natural or man-made disasters.
Benefits
- Annual and Sick Leave benefits
- Nine paid holidays and one Personal Holiday each year
- State Group Insurance coverage options, including health, life, dental, vision, and other supplemental insurance options
- Retirement plan options, including employer contributions
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Tuition waivers
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
