Salary : $5,217.00 - $9,403.00 Monthly
Location : New Orleans, LA
Job Type: Classified
Job Number: OPH/PAW/223419
Department: LDH-Office of Public Health
Opening Date: 07/15/2026
Closing Date: 7/30/2026 11:59 PM Central

Minimum Qualifications
Possession of a current Louisiana Registered Nurse license or a temporary permit or multi-state license issued by a Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC/eNLC) state to practice as a registered nurse plus one of the following:

Two years of experience as a licensed registered nurse; OR

A bachelor's degree in nursing plus one year of experience as a licensed registered nurse; OR

A master's degree in nursing or public health plus one year of experience as a licensed registered nurse; OR

A doctorate in nursing or public health.
Job Specification

The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be found here.
Job Duties and Other Information
Job Duties:

• Assists in special investigations and mass immunization programs. Attends all mandatory training required for team participants, including WMD/Bioterrorism Training. Assists with developing, planning, coordinating and implementing regional Emergency Response Plan.

• Assists with constructing and implementing regional All-Hazards, i.e. Strategic National Stockpile Distribution Plan, Regional Pandemic Plan. Assists and composes After Action Report (AAR) and Improvement Plans following emergency response activities. Maintains disaster assignments for all OPII staff and utilizes web-based communication systems as needed.

• Responsible for credentialing, updating and maintaining regional Emergency Systems for Advanced Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP) or LAVA, which is federally mandated.

• Responsible for educating and training all clinical staff on emergency preparedness issues, as well as, educating non-medical employees on and community on potential public health issues and emergency preparedness.

• Serves on the regional Rapid Response Team and Incident response team. Performance of duties may require responding to emergencies and public Health threats i.e. natural disaster, food-borne/infectious illnesses, environmental exposures and outbreaks as they emerge.

• Participates in emergency response activities, special investigations, mass immunization clinics and drills. Functions as Operation Chief in Command Structure during activation of the regional EOC. Serves as an OPH liaison for emergency events as needed to local parish EOC.

• Responsible for personally maintaining CPR certification and Nursing Licensure, as well as, performing any additional duties not listed in job description to ensure the functioning of agency operations at all levels. Supervises, educates, and provides professional nursing care in response to emergencies and public health/bioterrorist threats on a 24-hour basis situation in the community and statewide.

This position requires routine statewide duties, including fieldwork, inspections, investigations, or direct services that extend beyond the employee's domicile parish. These statewide responsibilities are an inherent and ongoing part of the job and may require frequent travel.
Position-Specific Details:

Location: Office Public Health / OPH-Region 1-BRCO / Orleans Parish

Appointment Type: This position may be filled as aProbationary appointment or Promotional appointment

Cost Center: 3262108001

Position Number(s): 50330808
How To Apply:

No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
To apply for this vacancy, click on the "Apply" link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.
* Information to support your eligibility for the position must be included in the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education). Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.
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Contact Information:

Patricia Walker
LA Department of Health (LDH)

Division of Human Resources

PO Box 4818

Baton Rouge, LA 70821

225-342-6477
01

To ensure compliance with LDH Nepotism Policy#41, if you have any immediate family members that are currently employed by LDH, please list the name and relationship. Please type "N/A" if no immediate family members are employed by LDH.
02

Do you possess a current Louisiana Registered Nurse license or a temporary permit or multi-state license issued by a Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC/eNLC) state to practice as a registered nurse?

• Yes
• No

03

If you answered 'YES' to the question above, please list the license TYPE, NUMBER, ISSUING STATE, ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE, and EXPIRATION DATE. If you answered 'NO', enter N/A.***NOTE***ORIGINAL issue date must be provided (NOT most recent renewal) as your experience will be credited from the date you put here when you attained your license.
Required Question