IE11 Not Supported

For optimal browsing, we recommend Chrome, Firefox or Safari browsers.

CHHS Recruiting for Innovation Office Director

The California Health and Human Services Agency is recruiting for a director-level executive to establish and oversee a new Innovation Office.

The California Health and Human Services Agency is recruiting for a director who will be responsible for establishing the Innovation Office at the agency.

The new position and recruiting effort were announced today by Michael Wilkening, the state’s undersecretary of Health and Human Services.

“The director will work directly with me on policy issues and will be part of our Office of Systems Integration for administrative functions,” Wilkening said in a statement. 

“The Agency Innovation Office will partner and help bolster departmental efforts, such as the Fusion Center at CDPH, a reconstituted Division at OSHPD [Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development] and efforts at CDSS [California Department of Social Services] to establish an Innovation Unit,” Wilkening said.

The new initiative will include two managers and four staff members.

“These people will be recruited from our departments and will serve on a rotational basis (1-2 years for the managers and 1 year for the staff),” Wilkening said in the statement. “Following their stint at the Agency Innovation Office, they will return to their departments with a new set of skills, an expanded view of the work of our departments, and an ability to evangelize this work in our departments.”

He added: “We are more concerned with finding the right person than quickly filling. Having said that, I would like to start conversations with interested candidates by the end of the month.”

Interested applicants should email their resumes to Wilkening and to Sonia Herrera, both in CHHS.

Wilkening is the author of a commentary that appears in today’s Techwire.  

 

 

 

Dennis Noone is Executive Editor of Industry Insider. He is a career journalist, having worked at small-town newspapers and major metropolitan dailies including USA Today in Washington, D.C.