Program Manager 1B

The mission of the Louisiana Department of Health is to protect and promote health and to ensure access to medical, preventive, and rehabilitative services for all residents of the State of Louisiana.

Step into a leadership role where your expertise can shape the future of behavioral health services statewide. As a key manager within the Office of Behavioral Health, you’ll oversee compliance monitoring, evaluation, and quality initiatives that directly impact individuals with mental health and substance use disorders across Louisiana. In this role, you’ll guide community-based programs that promote recovery, consumer satisfaction, supported employment, and workforce development—ensuring services are effective, accountable, and delivered in the least restrictive settings.

You’ll lead statewide planning, training, and awareness efforts, manage federal grant oversight, and collaborate with partners across LDH, local governing entities, and community organizations. If you’re a mission-driven leader with behavioral health experience who wants to influence policy, strengthen systems of care, and improve lives on a statewide scale, this is an opportunity to make lasting impact.

• Provides supervision and leadership to the Compliance Monitoring Unit by overseeing the planning, development, implementation, management, and evaluation of statewide behavioral health programs funded through federal block grants, discretionary federal funds, and state resources.
• Supervises management-level professionals responsible for compliance monitoring, evaluation, training, and technical assistance to behavioral health service delivery systems serving individuals statewide.
• Collaborates with the OBH Data Analytics Section and the ten Local Governing Entities to ensure accurate and timely data collection, coordinated consumer access, quality reporting, and evaluation of service delivery outcomes.
• Develops and maintains monitoring and data collection systems to assess service quality, utilization, and effectiveness, analyzes trends and national research, and makes evidence-based recommendations to OBH executive leadership for system improvements.
• Serves in a principal statewide leadership role for the development, implementation, and oversight of Supported Employment programs, including supervision of the Program Manager 1A and coordination of the statewide Supported Employment Initiative.
• Leads OBH collaboration with Medicaid, Managed Care Organizations, LGEs, and partners to oversee implementation of the IPS model as a Medicaid-reimbursable service, monitor utilization and fidelity, review monitoring reports, and recommend improvements based on findings and trends.
• Ensures staff and providers receive appropriate training and technical assistance, establishes work standards and timelines, evaluates performance, and participates in statewide meetings, committees, and emergency collaborations that support community-based services and reduce institutionalization.

• Seven years of experience in developing, managing, or evaluating health or social service programs; or in public health, public relations, social services, health services, health regulation, or administrative services; OR
• Six years of full-time work experience in any field plus four years of experience in developing, managing, or evaluating health or social service programs; or in public health, public relations, social services, health services, health regulation, or administrative services; OR
• A bachelor’s degree plus four years of experience in developing, managing, or evaluating health or social service programs; or in public health, public relations, social services, health services, health regulation, or administrative services; OR
• An advanced degree or a Juris Doctorate plus three years of experience in developing, managing, or evaluating health or social service programs; or in public health, public relations, social services, health services, health regulation, or administrative services.

EXPERIENCE SUBSTITUTION:
Every 30 semester hours earned from an accredited college or university will be credited as one year of experience towards…