Behavioral Health Administrative Specialist 2
The Behavioral Health Division is organized into three areas of focus : (1) Operations & Strategy; (2) Service Delivery; and (3) Equity, Community Partnerships and Quality Assurance. In this position, you will provide administrative, operations, and program support to the Behavioral Health Deputy of Service Delivery, in service to the people of Oregon and guided by the mission, vision, values and goals of the Oregon Health Authority and the Behavioral Health Division.
You will be responsible for planning and coordinating meetings, workgroups, and project schedules. Your focus is on facilitating cohesive communication, collaboration, issue resolution, strategic planning, and decision-making. You will participate in team meetings and assume responsibility for the completion of follow up, which involves researching, analyzing, evaluating, collecting, organizing, assembling, preparing reports, incorporating information for special projects, making recommendations for action, and implementing recommendations approved by leadership; such as monitoring and researching activities being taken to address internal and external audit site visits and findings, co-designing, and organizing collaborative teaching-learning forums, and tracking and synthesizing grant solicitation and funding distribution.
You will also assist in the design, implementation, and sustainability of key initiatives and projects by developing and updating spreadsheets and tracking tools through research and data synthesis, assessment, and comprehensive documentation with a focus on interpreting and evaluating laws, rules, policies, procedures to assure operational alignment and compliance.
Minimum Qualifications : These qualifications must be visible in your application for consideration.
- Three years of secretarial or administrative support experience that includes coordinating office procedures, preparing narrative and statistical reports, and administrative data collection and analysis; OR
- An associate degree in general office occupations and two years of secretarial or administrative support experience that includes coordinating office procedures, preparing narrative and statistical reports, and administrative data collection and analysis; OR
- An equivalent combination of education and experience.
Desired Attributes : The following are skills and lived experiences that we have identified as key to success in this role at OHA. These are the attributes we are looking for in our top candidate. If you possess any of these, please let us know in your application.
Can demonstrate advanced Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, TEAMS, Outlook skillset; and otherwise use computers and computer systems to set up functions, enter or compile data, or process information.Organizational and time management skills commensurate with the detailed and complex development process. Use mathematics to solve business problems.Give full attention to what is being said, taking time to understand points being made, asking appropriate questions, and not interrupting at inappropriate times; with the ability to effectively convey information, verbally and in writing.Demonstrated ability to apply rules; identify underlying principles, reasons, or facts to break down information or data into separate parts; observe, receive, and obtain information from all relevant sources; identify information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events; understand the implications of new information for current and future problem-solving and decision-making; monitor and review information from materials, events, or the environment to detect or assess problems; analyze information and evaluate results; combining all information to form rules or conclusions, including finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events; and establish long-range objectives and specify the strategies and actions to achieve them.Demonstrated ability to develop constructive and cooperative working relationships with others and maintain them over time, encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.Experience providing technical support and training to others around processes, procedures, use of systems or software with the demonstrated ability to translate or explain what information means and how it can be used.Experience working in a fast-paced working environment, managing different assignments simultaneously to completion.