Job Details Working Title: Community Engagement and Health Equity Supervisor Job Class: Human Services Supervisor 3 Agency: Human Services Dept - Job ID: 97516
- Location: St. Paul
- Telework Eligible: Yes
- Full/Part Time: Full-Time
- Regular/Temporary: Unlimited
- Who May Apply: Open to all qualified job seekers
- Date Posted: 10/06/2026
- Closing Date: 10/26/2026
- Hiring Agency/Seniority Unit: Human Services Dept / DHS Central Office MMA
- Division/Unit: Health Care Administration / Office of the Medicaid Medical Director
- Work Shift/Work Hours: Day Shift / 8:00am - 4:30pm
- Days of Work: Monday - Friday
- Travel Required: No
- Salary Range: $38.83 - $55.93 / hourly; $81,077 - $116,781 / annually
- Classified Status: Classified
- Bargaining Unit/Union: 216 - Middle Management Association/MMA
- FLSA Status: Exempt - Executive
- Designated in Connect 700 Program for Applicants with Disabilities : Yes
The Department of Human Services is unable to provide sponsorship for work visas. Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States at the start of employment. DHS does not participate in E-Verify.
The work you'll do is more than just a job. At the State of Minnesota, employees play a critical role in developing policies, providing essential services, and working to improve the well-being and quality of life for all Minnesotans. The State of Minnesota is committed to equity and inclusion, and invests in employees by providing benefits, support resources, and training and development opportunities.
Job Summary This position is eligible for telework for applicants who reside in Minnesota or in a bordering state, with supervisory approval and satisfactory performance. If you live in a state bordering Minnesota, you must live within 50 miles or less from the primary work location to be eligible for telework. The Community Engagement and Health Equity Supervisor provides strategic, supervisory, and operational leadership for a portfolio of high-visibility community engagement and health equity initiatives within the Office of the Medicaid Medical Director, the Health Care Administration, and DHS. Following the vision of the Medicaid Medical Director, the incumbent is responsible for integrating multiple high-visibility and high impact community engagement efforts, including This portfolio includes HR1 implementation, community-led governance models, and CLAS standards, to advance equitable health outcomes and federal compliance. The incumbent collaborative sets the strategy for how OMMD engages communities across these efforts, deciding when and how to engage, building structures where community members share decision-making power, and ensuring community input visibly shapes policy and is reported back to the people who shared it. Ultimately, this position is responsible to ensure that policy is informed by lived experience and programs deliver measurable, culturally responsive services.
All DHS Leaders are expected to demonstrate and develop the five (5) competency themes:
- Leading Self
- Leading Others
- Leading the Organization
- Leading Outside the Organization
- Getting Work Done
Qualifications Minimum Qualifications Demonstrated leadership experience*
*Leadership experience can include:
- Experience as a supervisor, lead worker, team lead, project lead;
- Completion of a State of Minnesota leadership program (e.g. ELI, L4);
- A paid/unpaid position leading a program or chairing a committee (e.g. ERG) - experience must include:
- 1+ year of experience identifying issues, goals and strategic actions
- 100+ hours per year time commitment
AND
Four (4) years of experience designing, leading, or evaluating community engagement strategies, including translating policy changes into engagement approaches for affected communities.
Experience must demonstrate the following:
- Interpreting health or human services policy, ideally Medicaid, MinnesotaCare, or related federal programs, and translating it into operational changes, guidance, or communications for affected communities.
- Applying an equity lens to policy or program work, such as identifying disparate impacts, implementing CLAS Standards or language access practices, or advancing changes that reduce barriers for historically marginalized communities.
- Designing and leading engagement strategies that bring community voice into decisions, including building partnerships with community organizations, structuring how input is gathered and used, and reporting back to communities on outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications - Experience designing engagement strategies that match the level of community influence to the decision at hand, from information and consulting through co-design and shared governance, and being transparent with communities about which level applies.
- Experience building sustained relationships with community-based organizations, advocates, and enrollees, and understanding how community engagement differs from formal Tribal consultation.
- Knowledge of structural and historical drivers of health disparities including racism, ableism, linguistic exclusion, immigration status, geographic isolation, and the ability to apply an intersectional lens recognizing that people may face compounding barriers across race, disability, language, immigration status, gender identity, and other dimensions of identity. Cultural competency and cultural humility grounded in experience working with people from a variety of backgrounds, sufficient to build and sustain trust with communities that have experienced harm, neglect, or exclusion from public systems, including racial and ethnic minority, immigrant and refugee, Tribal, disability, LGBTQIA2S+, and rural communities.
- Ability to serve as an internal advocate for communities and staff who are underrepresented or historically marginalized within DHS decision-making processes, including translating community concerns into terms senior leadership and legislative partners can act on.
- Skill in identifying and interrupting practices, communications, or policy proposals that could produce disparate or inequitable outcomes, and in advocating for alternatives, even when doing so requires raising difficult issues with senior leadership.
- Skill in culturally responsive leadership, supervising and developing a team whose composition and practice reflect the communities served, and creating conditions where staff with lived experience or non-dominant identities can do their best work without additional, uncompensated identity-based labor.
- Experience supervising and building teams, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, managing performance, establishing roles and workflows, and creating systems for ongoing staff feedback and continuous improvement.
- Ability to interpret complex federal mandates and cost principles and translate them into operational policy.
- Ability to manage competing, high-priority deadlines across multiple workstreams without losing coordination across them.
Additional Requirements To facilitate proper crediting, please ensure that your resume clearly describes your experience in the areas listed and indicates the beginning and ending month and year for each job held.
REFERENCE/BACKGROUND CHECKS - The Department of Human Services will conduct reference checks to verify job-related credentials and criminal background check prior to appointment.
Application Details How to Apply Select "Apply for Job" at the top of this page. If you have questions about applying for jobs, contact the Careers Help Desk at 651-259-3637 or email careers@state.mn.us . For additional information about the application process, go to http://www.mn.gov/careers .
Contact If you have questions about this position, contact Aaron at aaron.flicker@state.mn.us
To receive consideration as a Connect 700 Program applicant, apply online, email the Job ID#, the Working Title and your valid Proof of Eligibility Certificate by the closing date to Kelly Ellich at kelly.ellich@state.mn.us .
If you are an individual with a disability and need an ADA accommodation for an interview, you may contact the Department of Human Services' ADA Coordinator at 651-431-4945 or DHS_ADA@state.mn.us for assistance.
Benefits As an employee, you'll have access to one of the most affordable health insurance plans in Minnesota, along with other benefits to help you and your family be well.
Your benefits may include: - Paid vacation and sick leave
- 12 paid holidays each year
- Low-cost medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug plans
- Fertility care, including IVF
- Diabetes care
- Dental and orthodontic care for adults and children
- 6 weeks paid leave for parents of newborn or newly adopted children
- Pension plan that provides income when you retire (after working at least three years)
- Employer paid life insurance to provide support for your family in the event of death
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance that can provide income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury
- Tax-free expense accounts for health, dental, and dependent care
- Resources that provide support and promote physical, emotional, social, and financial well-being
Support to help you reach your career goals: - Training, classes, and professional development
- Tuition reimbursement
- Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (Some positions may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. For more information, visit the Federal Student Aid website at studentaid.gov )
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for work/life support: - A voluntary confidential program that helps employees and their families with life challenges that may impact overall health, personal well-being, or job performance
- Common sources of stress can be addressed through the EAP: mental health, relationship challenges (personal and work), grief and loss, finances, and legal issues
- Daily Living/Convenience Services: Chore services, home repair, trip planning, child/elder care
Programs, resources and benefits eligibility varies based on type of employment, agency, funding availability, union/collective bargaining agreement, location, and length of service with the State of Minnesota.
