The Data Strategy and Partnerships Team (DSPT) focuses on advancement of a modernized data strategy in alignment with the OHA goal of eliminating health inequities by 2030 through a process of: improving transparency and accountability of OHA managed data, building internal ability to use data in an equitable, ethical and informed way, promoting the reuse of data systems and technologies, supporting programs in showing the outcomes of investments, and organizing a transparent and well-resourced process to guide agency data management.
In this position, you will engage in the planning, assessment, and determination of strategic direction for enterprise-wide data management. You will be a senior advisor to agency and division leadership, program directors and leads data and systems teams on large-scale organization improvement and implementation projects. You will identify risks posed to data and systems collection, storage and utilization and design operations and policy changes to mitigate those risks. You will set the strategic direction for data stewardship and data governance for the agency working to align strategy across divisions and across other state agencies.
This is a full-time, Limited Duration or Job Rotation opportunity, expected to last 12 months. This can be ended at any time based on the needs of the department. This position may have the opportunity to become permanent pending future budget modifications. If you are a current state employee and offered this position as a rotation rather than limited duration, you will retain your base position and return to your base position at the end of the Job Rotation assignment.
Minimum Qualifications: These qualifications must be visible in your application for consideration.
Any combination of experience and education equivalent to eight years of experience that typically supports the knowledge and skills for the classification.
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.
We are seeking someone who shares Oregon Health Authority's mission and values. OHA values health equity, service excellence, integrity, leadership, partnership, innovation and transparency. OHA's health equity definition is "Oregon will have established a health system that creates health equity when all people can reach their full potential and well-being and are not disadvantaged by their race, ethnicity, language, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, social class, intersections among these communities or identities, or other socially determined circumstances. Achieving health equity requires the ongoing collaboration of all regions and sectors of the state, including tribal governments to address: the equitable distribution or redistributing of resources and power; and recognizing, reconciling, and rectifying historical and contemporary injustices."