Deputy Program Director
State of Washington
Job location
Olympia, WA
Job details
Note: This recruitment will remain open until we fill the position. We reserve the right to make a hiring decision at any time. Early applications are encouraged. We will review applications on Dec 19, 2022, and will review additional applications each week until we fill the position.
What this job is about
As the Deputy Program Director, you will have the unique opportunity to lead a team of experts to the completion of a statewide project. You will be paramount in helping lead the project team while simultaneously updating the governance structure that One Washington operates under, as well as championing the program’s legislative efforts and engagements.
If you have a passion for innovation, modernization, and future-oriented goals, joining our One Washington Team is the ideal career choice for you. This position will directly influence the configuration and implementation of enterprise projects that will have significant impacts on how all branches of state government, institutions of higher education and businesses that sells goods and services to the state can better serve all Washingtonians.
One Washington is tasked by Governor Jay Inslee with one of the largest and most transformative information technology projects in Washington state history. The One Washington Team’s main objective is to modernize and enhance outdated state technology systems, such as the state’s core finance, procurement, budget, and human capital management functions, delivering Washington into the future of live and on-demand data.
Who we are
Our work at the Office of Financial Management (OFM) serves as a crucial part of the decision-making that the governor, Legislature and state agencies do each year. As an employee of OFM, you will be part of a team of dedicated professionals who work hard every day to provide the vital information and services they need to serve the people of Washington.
If playing a key role in supporting and improving state government matters to you, you’ve found the right place.
What we offer our employees
We support the following values in the workplace:
• Foster an environment of diversity, equity and inclusion. We strive to hire, cultivate and retain a competitive workforce that reflects the communities we serve.
• Offer telework and remote work opportunities, when possible, by offering work tools that promote creative collaboration, drive efficiency, and best suit the important work we do whether you live five minutes from our work building or work elsewhere in the state.
• Encourage a healthy life/work balance by offering flexible/alternative work schedules, wellness activities, mobile arrangements and telework opportunities.
• Offer an Infants at Work Program to promote parent and infant bonding, parental well-being and healthy infant development. Depending on your job duties, work location and supervisor approval, eligible employees who are new mothers, fathers or legal guardians can bring their infant (six weeks to six months) when they return to work.
What you’ll do:
• Perform supervisory and leadership duties to core project leaders, including setting performance goals.
• Collaborate and strategize with the Executive Program Director to organize project team workplans and activities.
• Serve as an active and visible champion of the program, both internally to the program team and to the entire enterprise.
• Foster leadership team collaboration to facilitate the connection of workstreams toward the development of strategic project objectives and deliverable completion, supporting desired outcomes of critical path completion.
• Supports program priorities and remove barriers for personnel to accomplish task associated with these strategic priorities.
• Lead the development and tracking of performance measures that align with strategic objectives.
• Provide leadership at the program and enterprise level to lead integration of business transformation efforts, values, processes, and information technology advancements.
• Lead the organization and activities for the various components of the One Washington governance structure and ensure alignment of decision making for planning policy and operations to strategically meet all business objectives.
• Collaborate with OFM’s Legislative Affairs on One Washington issues that rise to the legislative level and engage with legislative staffers and members to brief on project status.
• Assist with the preparation and participate in various stakeholder meetings to ensure risks, actions, issues, and decisions are brought to their attention and addressed in a timely manner.
• Obtain and validate data/information, identify key issues and relationships relevant to achieving long-range goal, and commit to a course of action to accomplish long-range goals after developing alternatives.
• Assist in determining team’s strategic priorities and generate options to achieve all project goals.
• Coordinate current and future project needs to the One Washington Chief of Staff and budget manager for unplanned expenditures and decision package input, including contract and state FTE needs.
• Collaborate with other team leaders to resolve issues affecting the state enterprise that can impact overall scope, schedule, and budget.
• Facilitate working sessions and communicate opportunities and issues to executive leadership.
• Make final recommendation regarding governance structure when decisions or issues impact the scope, schedule or budget and determine best course of action to take that will result in program success and maximization of state benefit.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in social sciences, public policy, human resources management, organizational development, applied behavioral sciences, business administration, or related field.*
• Ten years of combined senior/executive level work experience:
• Leading efforts to improve organizational development and business operations for a large, multi-function organization
• Overseeing and planning complex ERP implementations (preferably Workday)
• Utilizing continuous improvement tools and methodologies
• Collecting, assimilating and analyzing complex data sets
• Working effectively with all levels of an organization, one-on-one development, and team development.
• Five years of experience supervising/leading staff and work teams (experience may run concurrently with experience listed above).
• Additional relevant professional experience may substitute for the educational requirement on a year-for-year basis.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Ability to work with data analysts to measure operational performance and progress towards aspirational measures.
• Articulate and persuasive communicator, in writing and orally.
• Excellent active listening skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to respect and civility in the workplace.
• Demonstrated commitment to organizational success.
• Demonstrated knowledge of customer service principles.
• Highly developed interpersonal communication skills.
Desired Qualifications:
• Master's degree in public administration, organizational development, applied behavioral sciences, human resources management, business administration or related field.
• Experience with and knowledge of multiple vendor-specific methodologies.
• Ten years mid- or high-level management experience that includes responsibilities over broad ranging, diverse and complex business operations and/or issues; advising and influencing leadership decisions, and supervising.
• Experience with legislative process and high-level stakeholder engagements; preparing and facilitating communication.
• Experience with Workday implementation, Lean training, certification, and application.
• PMI Certification.
Condition of Employment:
Per Governor Inslee’s Directive 22-13.1, state employees must be fully vaccinated effective November 4, 2022. Providing proof of being fully vaccinated is a condition of employment and your vaccine status will be verified prior to starting work. Being fully vaccinated means two weeks after you have received the second dose in a two-dose series of a COVID-19 vaccine or a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine authorized for emergency use, licensed or otherwise authorized or approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or listed for emergency use or otherwise approved by the World Health Organization. Please reach out to the HR Office if you need information on medical or religious accommodation.
Application Process:
How to Apply
Interested? We would love to hear from you. Click “Apply” at the top of this page to start your application (you can save the application and come back to it, if needed).
Please include the following along with your application:
• A letter of interest describing your specific qualifications about this position.
• A resume detailing your applicable experience and education.
• At least three professional references with current telephone numbers.
We will directly contact the top candidates to interview for this position. Because we base our selection on the information you provide, it is in your best interest to identify the knowledge, skills and abilities that address the required and desirable qualifications we described above.
Questions:
For questions about this recruitment or to request reasonable accommodation in the application process, please email William at TalentAcquisition@ofm.wa.gov. For TTY service, please call the Washington Relay Service at 7-1-1 or 1-800-833-6388.
The Office of Financial Management is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a working environment that includes and respects cultural, racial, ethnic, sexual orientation and gender identity diversity. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, persons of disability, persons over 40 years of age, and disabled and Vietnam-era veterans are encouraged to apply.
This position is exempt from civil service rules.
For more information, please see WAC 357-19-195
