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The work we do matters! Hiring Agency: Health & Human Services – Agency 25 Location: Lincoln, NE Hiring Rate: $37.057 Job Posting: JR2025-00016483 DHHS Administrator II – Investigations and Environmental Health Unit (Open) Applications No Longer Accepted On (If no date is displayed, job is posted as open until closed): 05-30-2025 Job Description: Join our team as a dynamic leader dedicated to safeguarding public health through impactful programs! You’ll oversee investigations of complaints about health professionals, ensuring safety and integrity. You’ll also lead our Radiation Control Program, managing licensing, inspections, and emergency preparedness for radioactive materials and x-ray equipment. In addition, you’ll champion the Environmental Health Hazards and Indoor Air Program, tackling issues like asbestos, radon, lead poisoning, mercury, and indoor air quality to keep our communities safe. Lastly, you’ll oversee our Nebraska Public Health Environmental Laboratory, ensuring lab certifications and water testing meet the highest standards. This role offers a meaningful opportunity to make a real difference in public health while working with a dedicated team. Help us carry out our mission to Help Nebraskans Live Better Lives! Examples of Work: Establish operational policies and procedures ensuring compliance with regulations and standards, ensuring investigations, inspections, water testing, and licensing activities are conducted accurately, legally, and efficiently, including enforcement actions when necessary. Establish the Unit’s vision, mission, goals, and organizational structure, developing and managing its budget, and preparing comprehensive reports on activities and needs. Develop systems to ensure excellent customer service, organizational mission achievement, operational accountability, staff productivity, and infrastructure adequacy to fulfill business functions effectively. Write and present various types of educational and informational materials to professional organizations, provider groups, and state and federal officials. Oversee the daily operations of the Unit, providing guidance and oversight to staff through goal setting, performance evaluations, and performance management. Establish and Implement policies and procedures related to budgeting, resource allocation, customer service, and expenditure tracking, as well as developing and executing quality assurance and process improvement strategies to ensure operational excellence. Establish mechanisms to ensure that regulatory and statutory provisions coincide with state and national directions, trends, issues, and concerns; and that they adhere to the principles of public protection. Provide oversight and direction to Unit staff which consists of 46 full-time teammates. Provide direct supervision of 6 teammates including program managers for licensing, environmental health hazards, laboratory operations, radiation control, and an administrative technician, providing leadership, direction, and performance management. Responsibilities for this team include preparing job duties, developing goals, conducting performance evaluations, and monitoring daily operations to ensure effective completion of tasks. Additionally, the role involves preparing recruitment documentation and conducting interviews to fill vacant positions within the team, ensuring a cohesive and efficient investigative and environmental health unit. Hold quarterly meetings with all Investigations and Environmental Health Unit staff to provide information and directions and respond to questions and issues. Wage: $37.057 hourly to start. $38.910 hourly after successful completion of original probation. Requirements/Qualifications Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in public administration, social work, human development, public health, behavioral science, law, finance, human resources or other program related field AND four years of experience in a field related to the assigned program area including supervisory experience; OR a Master’s degree in any of the above-mentioned fields and two years commensurate experience. Equivalent experience or coursework/training may be substituted for the educational requirement on a year-for-year basis. Preferred Qualifications: Supervisory experience, critical thinking skills, analytical skills. Benefits We offer a comprehensive package of pay, benefits, paid time off, retirement and professional development opportunities to help you get the most out of your career and life. Your paycheck is just part of your total compensation. Check out all that the State of Nebraska has to offer! Benefit eligibility may vary by position, agency and employment status. For more information on benefits, please visit: https://statejobs.nebraska.gov/index.html#benefits Equal Opportunity Statement The State of Nebraska values our teammates as well as a supportive environment that strives to promote diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We recruit, hire, train, and promote in all job classifications and at all levels without regard to race, color, religion, sex. age, national origin, disability, marital status or genetics. Current employees of the State of Nebraska should NOT apply on this external career. Instead go to Workday and access the Jobs Hub – Internal Apply app from your home landing page. We are seeking talented individuals to join our team in careers that make a difference in the lives of Nebraskans. Once you’ve had the opportunity to explore our current open positions, apply for those of interest to you. https://das.nebraska.gov/personnel/training/ExternalTutorial/ Check back on your candidate profile to see the status of your submitted applications, as well as any new postings that might interest you! Thank you for your interest in joining our team! State Government is one of the largest and most diverse employers in Nebraska. Whether it’s helping a vulnerable child, advancing public health, making highways safer, or preserving our natural resources, the work we do matters!