Associate Governmental Program Analyst

The incumbent provides expert level user experience assistance on Department of Health Care Access and Information’s (HCAI) data products for customers of Information Services Division (ISD) data, ISD management, the Director’s Office and the HCAI web team. The incumbent is responsible for acting as a user experience specialist for the related product development for five product lines based on three privacy levels for patient-level administrative data files which can be used for healthcare operations, public health and research. With general direction and working both independently and cooperatively with others, the incumbent plans and carries out assignments in a lead role to achieve the unit objectives. The incumbent adheres to HCAI and State user design standards, processes and procedures to provide quality products and will service customers and stakeholders and actively engage these audiences around use, impact and improvement opportunities for HCAI products.

Experience applicable to one of the following patterns may be combined on a proportional basis with experience applicable to the other pattern to meet the total experience requirements, provided that the combined qualifying experience totals at least 30 months. Education may not be used to reduce this 30-month limit.

In the California state service, one year of experience performing the duties of a Staff Services Analyst (Range C). (Persons applying experience toward this pattern must have had a full-time assignment in California state service performing technical personnel work.)

Experience: Either

 

1. Three years of progressively responsible experience in technical personnel work, at least one year of which shall have been with independent responsibility for analyzing and recommending decisions on difficult personnel problems; or

 

2. Three years of progressively responsible technical experience administrative or budget analysis, socioeconomic research or some other field which has developed a broad and comprehensive knowledge of personnel management.

 

(One year of graduate work in public or business administration, personnel industrial relations, psychology, law, political science or a related field may be substituted for six months of the required experience in Pattern II. Experience in California state service applied toward this pattern must include one year of experience performing duties comparable in level of responsibility to those of a Staff Services Analyst. Range C.)

 

and

 

Education: Equivalent to graduation from college. (Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for a maximum of four years of the required education on a year-for-year basis.)

 

(In appraising experience, more weight will be given to the breadth of pertinent experience, and to evidence of the candidate's ability to accept and fulfill increasing responsibilities in personnel work than to the length of his/her experience.)

 

(Promotional candidates who are within six months of satisfying the experience requirement for this class will be admitted to the examination, but they must fully meet the experience requirement before being eligible for appointment.)