Director of Health and Human Services
Calaveras County
Date Posted:
March 11, 2025
Salary:
$179,400.00 – $220,542.40
Description:
Under general policy direction, plans, organizes, coordinates and
directs the activities and programs of the County’s Health and
Human Services Agency, and provides expert professional
assistance to County management staff in areas of
responsibility.
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS:
This is an at-will department head position appointed by the
County Executive Officer. The class has department head
level responsibility for the direction and administration of the
County’s Health and Human Services Agency. The incumbent is
responsible for overall policy development, program planning,
fiscal management, administration and operation of the integrated
Health and Human Services Agency. The incumbent is
responsible for accomplishing agency goals and objectives,
administering the agency’s budget and supervising professional
and other support staff. Assignments allow for a high
degree of administrative discretion in their execution.
Qualifications:
Education, Training, and
Experience:
Where college degrees and/or college course credits are required,
degrees and college units must be obtained from an accredited
college or university. Courses from non-accredited
institutions will not be evaluated for the requirement.
Education: Possession of a
Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with
major course work in business or public administration,
gerontology, social services, psychology, public health or a
related field. Possession of a Master’s Degree in the
fields listed above is strongly preferred.
-AND-
Experience: At least eight (8) years of increasingly responsible management level experience in a public agency, preferably over mental health, public health, community services, social services or similar setting which has included planning, implementation, and administration.
Knowledge of:
Administrative principles and practices including policy, goal
setting and objectives development, program and budget
development and implementation, and employee supervision;
Principals, practices, methods and current development of public
health, mental health, community, senior, family and social
services programs; Applicable Federal, State and local laws and
regulations regulating public health and mental health practices;
Applicable Federal, State and local laws and regulations,
including Local Agency Personnel Standards; Principles and
practices of program management, including development, funding
sources, grant writing proposals, program evaluation, quality
control and fiscal management; Principles and methods of public
and community relations and public information practices and
techniques; Local demographics and government organization as it
relates to determination and management of health and human
services, including the determination and management of social
services programs and the needs of low-income, disabled, mentally
ill and senior persons; County, state and federal public health,
mental health and social service programs and agencies; Research
and analysis including financial analysis.
Ability to:
Plan, organize, assign, direct, review, and evaluate the work of
assigned staff in a variety of complex public health, mental
health, senior, public guardian, Veterans, substance abuse, and
social services programs; Select, motivate, and evaluate staff in
work procedures and providing for their professional development;
Administer and manage a variety of technical public health,
mental health, community and social services projects and
programs; Analyze complex problems, evaluate alternatives, reach
sound conclusions and develop, recommend and implement
appropriate solutions; Use sound independent judgment;
Communicate effectively with a variety of individual citizens,
citizen groups, boards and commissions, staff and governmental
groups; Prepare sound oral and written reports and
recommendations, and clear and concise technical reports,
correspondence and other written materials; Interpret, explain
and apply appropriate laws, rules, regulations, programs and
procedures; Identify program funding sources, and prepare grant
application proposals and contracts; Effectively monitor and
achieve compliance with provisions of program contracts; Prepare
and maintain the agency’s budget; Identify the cultural and
sociological patterns influencing community public health, mental
health, community and social services; Represent the County in
contacts with outside agencies and the public; Establish and
maintain cooperative working relationships with those contacted
in the course of the work.
How To Apply:
