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The Community Engagement and Health Equity Supervisor provides strategic, supervisory, and operational leadership for a portfolio of high-visibility community engagement and health equity initiatives within the Office of the Medicaid Medical Director, the Health Care Administration, and DHS. Following the vision of the Medicaid Medical Director, the incumbent is responsible for integrating multiple high-visibility and high impact community engagement efforts, including This portfolio includes HR1 implementation, community-led governance models, and CLAS standards, to advance equitable health outcomes and federal compliance. The incumbent collaborative sets the strategy for how OMMD engages communities across these efforts, deciding when and how to engage, building structures where community members share decision-making power, and ensuring community input visibly shapes policy and is reported back to the people who shared it. Ultimately, this position is responsible to ensure that policy is informed by lived experience and programs deliver measurable, culturally responsive services. All DHS Leaders are expected to demonstrate and develop the five (5) competency themes: • Leading Self • Leading Others • Leading the Organization • Leading Outside the Organization • Getting Work Done

Demonstrated leadership experience* *Leadership experience can include: • Experience as a supervisor, lead worker, team lead, project lead; • Completion of a State of Minnesota leadership program (e.g. ELI, L4); • A paid/unpaid position leading a program or chairing a committee (e.g. ERG) - experience must include: o 1+ year of experience identifying issues, goals and strategic actions o 100+ hours per year time commitment AND Four (4) years of experience designing, leading, or evaluating community engagement strategies, including translating policy changes into engagement approaches for affected communities. Experience must demonstrate the following: - Interpreting health or human services policy, ideally Medicaid, MinnesotaCare, or related federal programs, and translating it into operational changes, guidance, or communications for affected communities. - Applying an equity lens to policy or program work, such as identifying disparate impacts, implementing CLAS Standards or language access practices, or advancing changes that reduce barriers for historically marginalized communities. - Designing and leading engagement strategies that bring community voice into decisions, including building partnerships with community organizations, structuring how input is gathered and used, and reporting back to communities on outcomes.