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This position is open only to Colorado state residents.

Please note: This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies.

About the Unit:

The Office of Children, Youth and Families (OCYF) exists to manage internal programs and divisions as well as all external activities, including the supervision of 64 counties’ social/human services for compliance with Federal and State statutes and regulations.

The OCYF Medical Team consists of the Child Welfare Medicaid Team and the Clinical Review Team. Both teams ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and youth services systems have a more seamless connection to physical and behavioral healthcare services, which improves health outcomes, minimizes harm to children and youth, and ensures timely permanency planning.

The Medicaid Team focuses on identifying and providing solutions to technical gaps in the Medicaid system and proposing strategic changes to minimize barriers in accessing services or payment. The Clinical Review Team focuses on in-depth review of clinical assessments, diagnoses, treatment history, responses to therapeutic modalities, and identification of appropriate ongoing treatment needs and supports for children and youth with high acuity needs.

Child Welfare Medicaid programs are managed by OCYF within CDHS but rely on cross-agency collaboration for successful implementation. OCYF is responsible for the specialized population, while HCPF is responsible for providing the benefits and services.

The Child Welfare Medicaid Team functions as 1) navigators for child welfare-involved families, county departments of human/social services, as well as for 24/7 providers serving these children and youth, 2) strategic partners in ensuring recurring barriers to Medicaid access are identified, and 3) SMEs who are continually interpreting and translating these identified barriers into proposed technical and system level solutions.

This role of Child and Youth System Analyst serves as the staff data system authority spanning CDHS, HCPF and OIT to analyze and design systems, processes and technical work solutions that directly impact all agencies’ ongoing operational decisions on how to troubleshoot and prevent Medicaid-related service interruptions from the lens of feasible technical fixes to multiple interfacing systems.

Hybrid Expectations:

2 days/week in office at 1575 Sherman St or at another location if applicable (such as on site with a county DHS, at a residential center, etc)

About the Position:

This role is ideal for a self-starter who wants to join a motivated team to make an impact! The small group you’ll be joining is hardworking, fun and dedicated to the CDHS mission of people who help people!

This role provides subject matter expertise and is respected as the primary data system authority on the complex intersection of child welfare and Medicaid access by multiple entities and teams including but not limited to: Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) Division of Child Welfare, Colorado Department of Health Care and Policy Financing (HCPF) Colorado Medicaid services, the Governor’s Office of Information Technology (OIT), Colorado Benefit Management System (CBMS), Child Welfare Trails database, Colorado interChange’s provider-facing systems.

Job Duties:

• Provides data system subject matter expertise and collaboration in several areas.
• Serves as backup to the Strategy Lead to facilitate regularly scheduled CDHS Medicaid working sessions.
• Translates proposed programmatic solutions into operationalizable data system improvements.
• Provides analysis and consultation on how to individualize existing guidelines to meet specific and unique member needs.
• Serves as a navigator for youth, child welfare-involved families and county departments of human/social services.
• Provides individual case review for 24/7 community providers.
• Increases the number of training resources and learning opportunities related to Child Welfare Medicaid.
• Collaborates with data system partners in setting policy and monitoring related to accessing Medicaid services.
• Establishes continuous quality improvement systems for accessing Medicaid services.
• Reduces the number of errors and exceptions for Child Welfare Medicaid programs.
• Analyzes the current data system infrastructure for accessing Medicaid for specialized populations.
• Determines what processes are needed to operationalize a Child Welfare Medicaid system.
• Critically evaluates these processes and provides data system improvement recommendations.
• Other Duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Seven (7) years of experience in an occupational field related to the work assigned to the position.

Or

• A combination of related education and/or relevant experience in an occupation related to the work assigned equal to seven (7) years.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant State of Colorado experience.
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to facilitate problem-solving projects and teams.
• Must be able to work independently as well as with a team.
• Experience with child welfare policy, rules and statutes.
• Experience with Medicaid policy, rules and statutes.
• Experience with Medicaid systems.
• Experience with ticketing systems.
• Excellent decision-making skills.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple project tasks.
• Strong interpersonal skills.

Conditions of Employment:

• A pre-employment criminal background check will be conducted.
• Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must disclose that information on the application.

Appeal Rights:

If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for this position, you may file an appeal.

How to Apply:

For additional recruiting questions, please contact

About Us:

If your goal is to build a career that makes a difference, consider joining the dedicated people of the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS).

Our Values:

We believe in a people-first approach.

Balance creates quality of life.

We hold ourselves accountable.

Transparency matters.

We are ethical.

Collaboration helps us rise together.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our staff.

ADAA Accommodations:

CDHS is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.

~THE STATE OF COLORADO IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER~