Applicants who fail to submit the SOQ as instructed may be eliminated from the examination/hiring process.
Please limit your SOQ to a maximum of 3 pages, single spaced, 12-point Arial, and 1 inch margins. The SOQ should be numbered in the same order as the Statement of Qualifications questions below. Your SOQ must provide responses and specific examples for each item listed below to be considered for the position:
1. Provide a brief summary of your knowledge and/or experience as it relates to California State Government, its budgeting process, and the impact to civil service employment.
2. Describe your experience, and the number of years engaged in, organizing and managing a mandated program, and the nature of its complexity (i.e. sensitivity to Legislative scrutiny, or public perception). The response must be high-level, but specific enough to provide the general nature of the services provided and your involvement in the oversight.
3. Please describe your involvement or experience with the implementation of change-management. What challenges did you experience, and how were they addressed?
4. Please describe an instance when you were required to solicit support of executive leadership to pursue a program solution or discuss jurisdictional/control authority over a problem. Include in your response the item/issue, a high-level overview, and the outcome.
5. Provide an example of your experience providing leadership over an enterprise-wide implementation, and your specific involvement with setting directions and/or establishing parameters by which the implementation was to occur. Please included whether your efforts were successful or not.
