Medicaid Program Specialist 3 (Pcn 062329)

This position is open to Alaskan Residents only.

Please check out the residency definition to determine if you qualify.

This position is currently located in Anchorage. The position may be in Anchorage or Juneau, depending upon the location of the most qualified candidate.

What you will be doing:

In this role, within the Department of Health Commissioner's Office, your responsibilities will include supporting the development, implementation, and maintenance of the Medicaid state plan. This will involve monitoring state and federal legislative activities related to Medicaid and other medical assistance programs and utilizing skills in interpretation, research, and policy recommendations to address the impact of legislation and/or regulation changes on the Medicaid program.

Additionally, you will assist with coordinating aspects of new programs and/or policy changes for existing programs across divisions, review and provide bill analysis recommendations, function as the backup legislative and stakeholder liaison for the Medicaid Program Specialist 4, and serve as the primary liaison to state agencies. Furthermore, you will be involved in training development and presentation for state Medicaid staff on state plan structure, requirements, the amendment process, and tribal consultation. You will also participate in and monitor internal stakeholder workgroups, support projects as required, and provide updates to the Commissioner's Office.

Our organization, mission, and culture:

The mission of the Department of Health is to promote and protect the health and well-being of Alaskans. This position is part of an enthusiastic multi-disciplinary team of professionals and facilitates ongoing intradepartmental work toward ensuring Medicaid beneficiaries' social, emotional, and physical health.

The benefits of joining our team:

This position offers applicants the opportunity to communicate regularly with various departmental staff members and stakeholders, work within a team, and perform work directly benefiting Alaskans while demonstrating cognitive flexibility and problem-solving skills.

The working environment you can expect:

This position is located in the Anchorage Department of Health Commissioner's Office in the Frontier Building or in the Juneau Department of Health Commissioner's Office in the Alaska Office Building (AOB) and is currently eligible for a hybrid telework agreement. Telework arrangements (hybrid) are approved only when an individual has demonstrated they meet the documented standards for approval and when such an agreement makes operational and functional sense for the department.

Who we are looking for:

The ideal candidate will possess some or all the following competencies:

• Manages and Organizes Information: Identifies a need; gathers, organizes, and maintains information; determines its importance and accuracy, and communicates it by a variety of methods.

• Self-Management: Sets well-defined and realistic personal goals; displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner; works with minimal supervision; is motivated to achieve; demonstrates responsible behavior.

• Stress Tolerance: Deals calmly and effectively with high stress situations (for example, tight deadlines, hostile individuals, emergency situations, dangerous situations).

A cover letter is NOT required for this position. Your complete application, including supplemental questions, will be used to determine which applicants will advance to the interview phase of the recruitment and selection process.

To view the general description and example of duties for this job class, please go to the following link and search for Medicaid Program Specialist 3:https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/classspecs

Competency Description         

The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class.  They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency.

 They typically list expectations, as opposed to specific tasks, and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency's description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to meet the competency successfully, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

Please ensure your application (through work history, training, education, licenses, certifications, volunteer work, etc.) supports/demonstrates that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Minimum Qualifications:

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in

• Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: Uses a logical, systematic, and sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one's knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources, as necessary.

• Oral Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

• Technical Expertise: Effectively applies technical knowledge to solve a range of problems; develops technical solutions to new or highly complex problems that cannot be solved using existing methods or approaches; is sought out as an expert to provide advice or solutions in the technical area.

• Written Communication: Writes in a clear, concise, organized, and convincing manner for the intended audience. 

equivalent to those typically gained by:

Progressively responsible professional experience such as supporting the administration of a Medicaid or Medicare program, health insurance service, health insurance management information system, health insurance finance or accounting program, Supplemental Security Income benefits or vocational rehabilitation program; auditing or monitoring medical or public assistance programs for fraud or quality assurance; processing medical claims using medical coding and medical billing knowledge; designing, developing, testing for quality assurance, and implementing an information system and/or training or education which includes such course work as business administration, computer sciences, economics, healthcare, legal studies, medical billing or coding, public health, public assistance, psychology.

Special Note:

"Competencies" means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.

"Professional experience" means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment.  

"Progressively responsible" means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.

"Training" and "education" in this guidance are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs. 

"Typically gained by" means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

At the time of application, please submit the following:

•  Professional Writing Sample: A professional writing sample, maximum two pages, about either a policy or regulatory change and analysis of the policy or regulatory change is required. An application without the writing sample will be considered incomplete.

At the time of the interview, please provide the following:

• Three (3) professional references whom we may contact by phone, one (1) of whom must be your current or most recent supervisor, if not already provided in the application.

• Current performance evaluation, if available.

• A copy of academic transcripts (unofficial are okay; please ensure that the institution name/URL is listed on the transcripts) if used to support that you meet the minimum qualification competencies.

Please read the below information carefully. This applies to your application submission.

SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS

For your application to be evaluated, you must answer the Supplemental Questions.

The State of Alaska uses four proficiency levels to measure and describe an applicant's level of competence in applying certain behaviors, knowledge, skills, and abilities to accomplish a specific task.  The four proficiency levels are Mastery, Fluency, Literacy, and Discovery. You must rate your proficiency level for each competency listed in the supplemental questions.

EDUCATION

To verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application. (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts). Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not, transcripts will be required before employment.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION

If education is completed in a foreign college or university, it may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable. If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs or an accredited U.S. state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university.

 It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.  The omission of the required documentation listed will result in an incomplete application, and you will not receive further consideration.

WORK EXPERIENCE

When using work experience not already documented in your application, please provide the employer's name, your job title, employment dates, and whether you were working full-time or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and if minimum qualifications are met.

Work experience needed to meet the minimum qualifications must be documented in the application.  If the application does not support minimum qualifications, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment.  A resume will not be used to determine that minimum qualifications have been met for the position to which you are applying.

If you have currently or previously been appointed to a flexibly staffed position, please ensure your work experience within a flexibly staffed position indicates the actual dates employed at each level.  Ensure your time and any subsequent flex promotion(s) are documented as a separate position.

 This is required as minimum qualifications require experience at a particular level in which the lower level may not be considered. If this information is not accurately reflected in your application, this may cause the processing of your application for consideration to be delayed.

NOTE: Attaching a resume or curriculum vitae is not an alternative to filling out the application. Noting "see resume or CV" or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting.

The State of Alaska does not provide VISA Employer sponsorships.

MULTIPLE LOCATIONS:

The location of this position is currently in Anchorage. The position may be located in Anchorage or Juneau depending upon the location of the most qualified candidate.

Please select the location(s) you are willing to be considered for. There is one position to be filled.

MULTIPLE VACANCIES

This recruitment may be used for more than one (1) vacancy. The applicant pool acquired during this recruitment may be used for future vacancies for up to ninety (90) days after this recruitment closes. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply to each recruitment notice to ensure consideration for all vacancies.

APPLICATION NOTICE

You can ONLY apply for this position through the Workplace Alaska website or via hardcopy application. If you accessed this recruitment bulletin through a job search portal such as AlaskaJobs or any other database, you MUST use a Workplace Alaska online or hardcopy application to apply successfully. Instructions on how to apply with Workplace Alaska may be found on the Workplace Alaska "How to Apply" webpage, found here: http://doa.alaska.gov/dop/workplace/help/

NOTICE

Questions regarding the application process can be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at 800-587-0430 (toll-free) or (907) 465- 4095. If you choose to be contacted by email, please ensure your email address is correct on your application and that the spam filter will permit email from the 'govermentjobs.com' domains.  For information on allowing emails from the 'governmentjobs.com' domains, visit the Lost Password Help page at https://www.governmentjobs.com/OnlineApplication/User/ResetPassword.

EEO STATEMENT

The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities who require accommodation, auxiliary aides or services, or alternative communication formats, please call 1-800-587-4095 in Juneau or TTY: Alaska Relay 711 or 1-800-770-8973 or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at P.

O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal-opportunity employer.

WORKPLACE ALASKA APPLICATION QUESTIONS & ASSISTANCE

Questions regarding application submission or system operation errors should be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at 1-800-587-0430 (toll-free) or (907) 465-4095 if you are in the Juneau area. Requests for information may also be emailed to recruitment.services@alaska.gov.

For applicant password assistance, please visit https://www.governmentjobs.com/OnlineApplication/User/ResetPassword. 

For specific information about the position, feel free to contact the hiring manager at:

Name/Title: Emily Beaulieu - Medicaid State Plan Coordinator

Phone:  907-538-7665

Email:emily.beaulieu@alaska.gov