C. E. A. Assistant Deputy Director, Chief Artificial Intelligence and Security Officer | JC-522718

About the role

The Assistant Deputy Director (ADD), Chief Artificial Intelligence and Security Operations Officer (CAISOO), supports the California Department of Public Health’s (CDPH) mission and strategic plan by ensuring that Information Technology (IT) is available to all departmental programs. The ADD is responsible for defining the vision of the modern public health information infrastructure and developing strategies to achieve that vision.

Responsibilities

• Transforming the CDPH public health information technology enterprise via policy creation and oversight of the Artificial Intelligence functions: collaborating internally with other executives, and externally with stakeholders in California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHSA), California Department of Technology (CDT), other departments and agencies, other oversight and governing bodies, local health jurisdictions, and other partners.
• Identifying business and technical capabilities that when deployed can be shared across programs to ensure that innovation aligns with department strategy and goals.
• Providing leadership over artificial intelligence innovation and modernization initiatives to build flexible and scalable technological backbones for dynamic public health activities that emphasize artificial intelligence services and licensing activities.
• Developing policies and processes such as governance for collaboration, prioritization, and strategic blueprints to encourage enterprise-level collaboration throughout the organization; enhancing enterprise services, expanding data access and interoperability to enable data-driven decisions, maturing systems, infrastructures, and ecosystems; defining and implementing strategies to support responsive and sustainable public health operations across all systems; and identifying opportunities to drive technology innovation and transformation throughout the enterprise.
• Leading agile transformation delivery for enabling an agile framework for greater agility, scalability, and efficiency to meet continually evolving business needs by developing and implementing policies and strategies to modernize artificial intelligence infrastructure, processes, and systems. Incorporates improved technology interoperability, sustainability, security, and adherence to standardized enterprise-wide artificial intelligence guidelines.

Requirements

This position does not have a Classification Specification. Requirements and qualifications for this position can be found in this announcement. For additional questions, please contact the hiring department listed below.

Qualifications

Knowledge and Abilities:

• Knowledge of the organization and functions of California State Government including the organization and practices of the Legislature and the Executive Branch; principles, practices, and trends of public administration, organization, and management; techniques of organizing and motivating groups; program development and evaluation; methods of administrative problem solving; principles and practices of policy formulation and development; and personnel management techniques; the department’s or agency’s Equal Employment Opportunity Program objectives; and a manager’s role in the Equal Employment Opportunity Program.
• Ability to plan, organize, and direct the work of multidisciplinary professional and administrative staff; analyze administrative policies, organization, procedures and practices; integrate the activities of a diverse program to attain common goals; gain the confidence and support of top level administrators and advise them on a wide range of administrative matters; develop cooperative working relationships with representatives of all levels of government, the public, and the Legislature and Executive branches; analyze complex problems and recommend effective courses of action; and prepare and review reports; and effectively contribute to the department’s or agency’s Equal Employment Opportunity objectives.

Skills

Not specified in the job posting.

Benefits

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Pay

$12,131.00 - $14,453.00 per Month

Schedule

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