DSHS HCLA WA Cares Fund Benefits Application & Transition Program Manager

Full Job Description

Picture yourself partnering with project team members in their daily work by delivering solutions that enable the effectiveness of WA Cares Fund systems.

You’ll be interacting with business partners and agency executives, with a Unit Manager executive who owns the achievement of the results expected from the project and helps to define and evolve expectations, report progress, and obtain needed direction and decisions to move forward.

In this role, you’ll serve as the division’s lead and subject matter expert for benefit transitions and the intake system.

Reporting to the Benefits Innovation Unit Manager, this position provides strategic direction and operational leadership to ensure the system effectively supports WCF’s mission, policy objectives, and statewide service delivery goals.

The Program Manager represents WA Cares Fund in strategic planning and interagency collaboration, defining business requirements, advocating for system enhancements, and ensuring technology solutions align with program and operational priorities.

Some of what you'll be doing:

• Collaborate with the WA Cares business and technology teams on the design, development, testing, implementation, and operations of interfaces that support the intake system and beneficiary transitions.
• Lead coordination with HCLA , Health Care Authority, Area Agency on Aging (AAA), and Developmental Disability Community Services (DDCS) to ensure WA Cares Fund systems are strategically implemented and maintained within approved timelines and budgets.
• Provide business and operational subject matter expertise in the design, implementation, and ongoing operations of the benefit application and intake system.
• Ensure program objectives are met, processes are efficient, and system operations effectively enable service delivery.
• Develop and maintain business policies and procedures for WA Cares Fund staff on benefits application and intake systems.
• Develop all necessary plans and project requirements for contractors to deliver maintenance and operations successfully in accordance with contract terms and conditions.

We are looking for a creative, flexible, and collaborative individual with stellar communication and problem-solving skills.

Our ideal applicant enjoys working with internal and external customers, ensures compliance and is meticulous about details, knows how to articulate the business value of project management, change management, and processes, communicates technology in business terms, and prioritizes resources and tasks to the highest value work and confidently represents the agency as a trustworthy and credible partner.

If this is your area of expertise and interest, we invite you to apply today! Come partner with us in doing this meaningful and critical work.

Required Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree, in public administration, health, social services, or related field, and at least five years of experience working with long-term care planning, assessment, or service delivery.

Or

• A combination of experience and education for a total of nine years of experience working with long-term care planning, assessments, or service delivery.
• Demonstrated experience on complex IT projects or systems involving internal and/or external partners and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience working with individuals transitioning from or between services.
• The ability to work independently and appropriately escalate issues, risks, and situations that require management attention and/or decisions. The ability to lead workgroups to identify and analyze solutions to issues and develop risk mitigation strategies.

Preferred experience

• Experience and/or knowledge conducting long-term care assessments.
• The ability to communicate complex information between the business and technology team in ways that can be understood based on their knowledge level.
• Excellent organizational skills including the ability to coordinate multiple work products and meet critical deadlines.
• The ability to use research, data and analysis to create reports and formulate and inform decision making.
• Experience managing system development and implementation projects within the Washington State environment and working with DSHS Enterprise Technology, WATech, and other state agencies

To Apply:

• Current chronological resume.
• A Cover letter explaining why you are interested in the job along with the skills, and experience that make you the best person for the job.

The Department of Social and Health Services’ (DSHS) vision that people find human services to shape their own lives requires that we come together with a sense of belonging, common purpose, shared values, and meaningful work.

It is crucial to our agency’s vision that you bring a fairness, access, and social justice commitment to your work with DSHS.

We strive to support all Washingtonians, including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, people with physical, behavioral health, and intellectual disabilities, elders, LGBTQIA+ individuals, immigrants and refugees, and families building financial security.

If you have questions, contact Chris at chris.pulley@dshs.wa.gov and reference 00559.

Additional Information

Prior to a new hire, a background check including criminal record history may be conducted.

Information from the background check will not necessarily preclude employment but will be considered in determining the applicant’s suitability and competence to perform in the job.

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