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Review Vacancy

Date Posted 03/16/23

Applications Due03/30/23

Vacancy ID126492

AgencyPeople With Developmental Disabilities, Office for

TitleEqual Opportunity Specialist 3

Occupational CategoryAdministrative or General Management

Salary Grade661

Bargaining UnitM/C - Management / Confidential (Unrepresented)

Salary RangeFrom $85712 to $108342 Annually

Employment Type Full-Time

Appointment Type Permanent

Jurisdictional Class Non-competitive Class

Travel Percentage 0%

Workweek Mon-Fri

Hours Per Week 37.5

Workday

From 9 AM

To 5 PM

Flextime allowed? No

Mandatory overtime? No

Compressed workweek allowed? No

Telecommuting allowed? No

County Albany

Street Address 44 Holland Avenue

City Albany

StateNY

Zip Code12229

Minimum Qualifications Non-competitive: eight years of the experience in equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion, or human rights. At least one year of the experience must have been at a supervisory level; OR one year of State service in an equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion, minority business, employment compliance, human resources, or training position allocated at or above Grade 23.

Qualifying experience includes working with organizations concerned with equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion, civil rights, minority business development, or similar programs; or in recruiting, training, and upgrading the educational and job qualifications of protected class members.

Substitutions: associate’s degree may substitute for two years of the nonsupervisory experience; bachelor’s degree for four years; and J.D. or master’s degree for five years.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Passion for systems change and diversity, equity, and inclusion for people with developmental disabilities and other marginalized identities.
- A willingness to learn and grow as a manager, coworker, and leader.
- Experience with all Microsoft Office products including Excel, Word, Teams, and Power Point.
- Strong organization, collaboration, and facilitation skills.

Duties Description The New York State Office of People With Developmental Disabilities (NYS OPWDD) has approximately 18,000 employees across 1,000+ locations and provides services to more than 120,000 people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. OPWDD recently created the Executive Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) with the charge to infuse DEI objectives and methodologies through different key business functions and executive ranks in OPWDD.

The DEI Bureau of Research and Analytics in the Executive Office of DEI is responsible for a mixed-methods research agenda in the following disciplines: language access, cultural and linguistic competence, DEI, and intersecting identities. This includes a large project portfolio consisting of a $10.6 million contract with the Georgetown University National Center for Cultural Competence, $1 million in external-facing grants from the Developmental Disabilities Planning Council focused on enhancing the agency's cultural and linguistic competence (i.e., Ensuring Access Grant, Office of New Americans Ramirez June Initiative), policy analyses resulting in actions plans that involve multiple OPWDD divisions, and all priority research, data, and grant activities.
The Equal Opportunity Specialist 3 will report to the Assistant Director and will serve as a project lead, carrying out the following duties and responsibilities:
- Develop detailed scope statements, document project requirements, develop project schedules, and coordinate project activities utilizing LEAN principles, when applicable.

- Present project plans and resource needs as well as identify risks and potential solutions to the Assistant Director.
- Design and implement quality metrics to analyze and monitor project performance and sustain continual improvement across the Agency.
- Manage the Bureau's portfolio projects throughout the lifecycle of the project.

- Coordinate multiple complex DEI research projects or components of projects, including existing priority grants through the Federal Medical Assistance Program, grants in partnership the Developmental Disabilities Planning, and projects within the NYS Community of Practice on Cultural and Linguistic Competence, and other community-based grants.

- Outline team member responsibilities while supervising and supporting staff to be successful in their roles.

- Manage, edit, and track applicable deliverables and work products.

- Maintain project resource libraries and institutional memory for all projects.

- Coordinate, facilitate, and participate in meetings with internal and external partners; develop content understanding and prepare meeting documentation.

- Effectively communicate with team members, staff across the agency, external stakeholders, and all project partners.

Additional Comments The Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) and it's Division of Executive Office.
is committed to creating and sustaining a culture of inclusion. We believe that we are most effective in managing and improving our service system with a
diverse team of employees. With such a large workforce, we rely on the collective individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression, ideas
and talent that our employees bring to their work. This speaks to our culture, and is a key part of our successes. As we continuously recruit people for our
team, we welcome the unique contributions that applicants bring in terms of their education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression,
nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
• Preference will be given to OPWDD employees impacted by closures. If you are being impacted by closure, please indicate this on your resume/cover letter.
• In order to be eligible for appointment and to maintain employment, you cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State
Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program). If you are appointed and subsequently listed as an
excluded individual or entity on any of these lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program), you may be terminated from your
employment.
• OPWDD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Some positions may require additional credentials or a background check to verify your identity.

Name Chelsea Williams

Telephone 518-473-4785

Fax 518-474-9902

Email Address MainOffice.Careers@opwdd.ny.gov

Address

Street 44 Holland Avenue

City Albany

State NY

Zip Code 12229

 

Notes on ApplyingPlease submit a cover letter and resume as an attached PDF or Word document by 3/30/23. Please reference the EOA #2023-134 in all correspondence.

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