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The Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, & Licensing (DIAL) is seeking a highly motivated, data-driven, solution-oriented, and enthusiastic leader to serve as the Division Administrator (Public Service Executive) for the department’s Labor/OSHA Division!
Who We Are
DIAL’s mission is Achieve Compliance Through Education, Regulation, and Due Process for a Safe and Healthy Iowa. Our goal is to be an effective, efficient and approachable regulatory agency. To accomplish our mission, the individual selected for this position will provide outstanding leadership, vision, structure, and accountability to the division.
DIAL is a multifaceted regulatory agency charged with protecting the health, safety, and well-being of Iowans, and is comprised of eight divisions: Administration, Administrative Hearings, Building & Construction, Health & Safety, Investigations, Labor/OSHA, Licensing, and Workers’ Compensation.
This position with serve as the Division Administrator over the Labor/OSHA Division, which includes the Safety bureau, the Health bureau, and the Consultation bureau.
What We’re Seeking
The successful candidate for this fast-paced and critical Division Administrator is a motivated, organized, and innovative leader. The position reports to the Department Director, and is located on the Capitol complex in Des Moines.
Desired skills and abilities include:
• Demonstrated leadership in building and managing teams of talented and passionate professionals
• Detail-oriented and highly responsive to colleagues and stakeholders
• Maintains the highest standards of professional and ethical conduct
• Creative and deliberate approach to problem-solving
• Works collaboratively with diverse groups of people
• Actively focused on achieving outcomes and using motivation and accountability in driving processes
• Committed to providing the highest-quality service and product
• Outstanding organizational skills
What You’ll Do
You will be an integral member of our senior leadership team, providing direct leadership to the Labor/OSHA Division in supporting the agency’s operations by:
• Supervising division personnel, including hiring, promotion, termination, discipline, work assignments, evaluation, professional development, relationship management, and mentoring.
• Working with the fiscal bureau in the preparation, coordination, and monitoring of budgets.
• Ensuring compliance with State and Federal performance measurement standards.
• Continuously analyzing operational problems and implement timely, effective and economical solutions.
• Monitoring legislation potentially impacting the division’s operations, including proposing legislation as needed.
• Implementing, monitoring, and updating Administrative Rules related to the division’s operations.
• Implementing metrics to allow for data-driven decision-making.
What We Offer
When you join DIAL, you help to make Iowa safer and healthier while enjoying an outstanding benefits package! In addition to providing a positive work environment, we offer a great compensation package for all our full-time employees, including:
• Excellent pay and benefits package including health, dental, flexible spending, and life insurance
• Teleworking options after first six months
• Biweekly vacation accrual and separate sick leave
• Iowa Public Employee Retirement System (IPERS) Retirement Package
• Optional 401A plan with employer contributions
• Employee Discount Programs from variety of vendors (vision, cellular, fitness, recreation, season passes, travel, counseling)
• Retirement Investors Club (Employer Sponsored Retirement Plan)
• Flexible Spending Accounts
For additional information click here benefits.
Excited to pursue the next step in your career? Apply today!
Background check required.
This is a non-merit position with the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals & Licensing.
Positions in this class are exempt from the screening and referral requirements of the Iowa Department of Administrative Services – Human Resources Enterprise.
Applicants must meet at least one of the following minimum requirements to qualify for positions in this job classification:
1) Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university and experience equal to seven years of full-time management-level work in finance, human resources, engineering, law, social work, regulation, data processing, or program research or evaluation.
2) Eleven years of full-time management-level work experience in finance, human resources, engineering, law, social work, regulation, data processing, or program research or evaluation.
3) All of the following (a and b):
a. Seven years of full-time management-level work experience in finance, human resources, engineering, law, social work, regulation, data processing, or program research or evaluation; and
b. A combination of a total of four years of education and full-time experience (as described in part a), where thirty semester hours of accredited college or university course work in any field equals one year of full-time experience. Graduation from the Iowa Certified Public Manager Program is also equivalent to one year of full-time experience or education.
4) All of the following (a, b, and c):
a. Five years of full-time management-level work experience in finance, human resources, engineering, law, social work, regulation, data processing, or program research or evaluation; and
b. A combination of a total of four years of education and full-time experience (as described in part a), where thirty semester hours of accredited college or university course work in any field equals one year of full-time experience; and
c. A combination of a total of two years of graduate-level education and full-time experience (as described in part a), where twenty-four semester hours of accredited graduate college or university course work in a public-service-related area (e.g., public or business administration, social work, law, education, engineering) equals one year of full-time experience. Graduation from the Iowa Certified Public Manager Program is also equivalent to one year of full-time experience or education.
5) Current, continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes one year of full-time work as a Public Service Manager 1, Public Service Manager 2, or comparable specific management-level position.
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