The Supervisor I serves as the Strategic Projects Unit Chief, leading a diverse team and working closely in collaboration with members of the unit staff. This position oversees the ADAP Branch Strategic Projects. Incumbent assigns tasks, monitors work assignments, and ensures deadlines are met and provides routine feedback and mentoring to staff, communicates expectations and needs clearly and consistently, and cultivates a culture of continuous improvement. This position advances racial equity, diversity, and inclusion in approach, processes, policies, and deliverables while also addressing challenges, racial inequities, stigma, and medical mistrust facing people who use drugs, young gay and bisexual men, cis- and transgender women of color. Uses programmatic and other Office of AIDS (OA) data to understand the status of HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) syndemics, identifies strategies for reducing new cases of HIV and STIs and eliminating health inequities that result in disproportionate disease burden among marginalized demographic groups. The incumbent also aligns and mobilizes resources and community partners to achieve programmatic goals. Supports their team in the development and implementation of HIV programs and ensures that local capacity building needs among funded local health jurisdictions (LHJs) and community-based organizations (CBOs) are identified and met. Works collaboratively with the ADAP Care Evaluation and Informatics (ACEI) Branch and the HIV Surveillance Branch to understand and use data to identify and develop recommendations to the Supervisor II on how to address capacity building and program development needs and barriers to successful HIV programs. The Supervisor I is also responsible for policy development through the use of programmatic HIV data and makes recommendations to the Supervisor II on where to focus program development efforts.
The incumbent works under the general direction of the Supervisor II, Chief of the PrEP-AP and Strategic Projects Section.
In July 2025, the State of California implemented the Personal Leave Program (PLP) 2025. This program temporarily reduces employees’ monthly base pay in exchange for paid leave credits. This position is subject to PLP 2025 and will have a monthly base pay reduction of 3% in exchange for 5 hours of leave credits through June 2027. The salary ranges shown on this job posting do not reflect the salary reduction.
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Telework Information
This position may be eligible for telework. The amount of telework permitted is at the discretion of the Department and is subject to change, consistent with CDPH’s Telework Program. All employees who telework are required to be California residents in accordance with Government Code 14200. Candidates who reside outside of the state of California may be interviewed; however, the selected candidate must have a primary residency in the state of California prior to appointment (and continue to maintain California residency) as a condition of employment. Failure to meet this requirement may result in the job offer being rescinded.
Travel may be required for this position. Reimbursement for travel takes into consideration an employee’s designated headquarters, as reflected in the duty statement, and is subject to regulations and bargaining unit contract provisions. All commute expenses to the designated headquarters office will be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
The headquarters office location for this position is identified in the attached duty statement.
