Program Specialist VII Rural Texas Strong
About The Position
The Rural Texas Strong Program Specialist reports to the Rural Texas Strong Project Manager in the Provider Finance Department within the Chief Financial Officer Division at the Health and Human Services Commission. This position will be responsible for the successful initiation, daily oversight, and delivery of initiatives related to the Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This role will work closely across the Rural Texas Strong teams within the CFO division, including contracting staff, as well as across divisions with Legal, Procurement, and Information Technology staff. This position involves supporting complex process-oriented workflows, working with a team to support federal funding initiatives, ensuring alignment with agency goals and process optimization, and managing high-stakes state and federal legislative priorities. This position will be responsible for the day-to-day evaluation and stakeholder engagement of this multi-initiative program, using accepted project management, administrative and stakeholder/group leadership skills. This role will be responsible for supporting the development of and maintaining project plans, community engagement plans and strategies, coordination across multi-initiatives, and monitoring timelines and milestones. This includes assistance to other program staff, government agencies, rural health providers, and vendors. This role performs advanced project coordination and management work and under minimal supervision, with latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.
Requirements
- Knowledge of local, state, and federal laws or regulations related to healthcare or health and human services programs.
- Knowledge of budget development, budget execution, financial tracking, or performance management activities.
- Skill in identifying, developing, or using performance measures or indicators to assess program effectiveness or outcomes and applying program management processes and techniques, including planning, monitoring, coordination, and reporting.
- Skill in communication, presentation, writing and report development.
- Skill in using standard business and productivity software, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Click-Up and Visio.
- Ability to prepare correspondence, presentations, reports, data analyses, or executive-level briefing materials.
- Ability to gather, analyze, and synthesize information to write and prepare reports.
- Ability to develop, evaluate, or interpret policies and procedures; and provide guidance or direction to staff, teams, or stakeholders.
- Ability to communicate effectively with staff, government agency leaders, legislative offices, community agency leaders, and utilizing business or operational terms.
- Ability to learn and adapt to a dynamic working environment, change, and new policies and processes.
- Degree from an accredited four-year college or university in public or business administration, human or social services, counseling or social work, communications, finance, IT systems, or another related field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in leadership, project management, or program administration roles.
- Minimum 2 years of experience working with healthcare, government, or human service organizations including higher education.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of health and human services programs, procurement processes, and state legislative processes.
- Experience with federal grants or programs or IT project management.
- Minimum 2 years’ experience writing and tracking federal grant applications, navigating the Texas legislative cycle, or analyzing healthcare/Medicaid finance structure.
Responsibilities
- Performs high-level support related to project management to create and maintain complex process-oriented workflows, conduct related research, support planning efforts, conduct program risk assessments, and administrative activities related to assigned program(s).
- Provides high-level grant and legislative support through collaborating in the planning, development, implementation, analysis, and documentation of the RHT program initiatives, technical and federal grant writing, compliance reporting, and supporting legislative inquiries, monitoring and reviewing compliance with federal and state requirements, laws, regulations, policies, and procedures for RHT grant initiatives.
- Provides high-level stakeholder engagement skills by serving as a liaison to staff, government agencies, government offices, community organizations, or the public, providing training and technical assistance and project management to portfolio staff, and creating and executing a grant community engagement plan.
- Plan and manage efficient project meetings, distribute project information and status reports, maintain project general inbox according to state requirements, laws, regulations, policies and procedures.
- Performs related work as assigned.
Benefits
- 100% paid employee health insurance for full-time eligible employees
- A defined benefit pension plan
- Generous time off benefits
- Numerous opportunities for career advancement
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
