The California Health and Human Services (CHHS) agency has opened a recruitment process to bring aboard an expert who will build out plans to further expand data usage internally and with external partners.
"To accomplish this goal, CHHS will partner with FUSE Corps to host an executive-level Fellow for one year who will help create the infrastructure, processes and approaches for the sustainable collection, use and analysis of data across departments and programs. The Fellow will not only help establish the necessary systems for utilizing data, but will also help transform the Agency’s perception of data by working to educate agency staff about the ability of data to improve services for clients," according to the job description from CHHS and FUSE Corps.
The fellow also will work with partners at universities to identify and develop data sets that enable the agency to look at how an an individual or family participates in multiple programs, what's known as the "continuum of care."
Those data sets are not readily available and "currently, the data sets necessary to gain a full picture of the Agency’s operations are unavailable and/or insufficiently integrated and analyzed."
The fellow, who will receive a $90,000 stipend for 12 months of work, will work with Undersecretary Michael Wilkening and the agency's Health Innovation Office, which was created a year ago.
Learn more about the fellowship here.
