Behavioral Health Operations & Planning Manager (WMS2/DBHR) – Internal

State of Washington•Thurston County – Olympia, WA

6d•Remote

About The Position

The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) is seeking a Behavioral Health Operations & Planning Manager to join its operations leadership team. This is a full-time permanent, remote position. Employees may occasionally be asked to attend an in-person meeting or event based on business needs. This is an internal opportunity and is only open to current HCA employees. All HCA employees are required to be Washington state residents upon their first day of employment. In this role, you will serve as the division's expert on the Community Behavioral Health (CBH) budget, a statewide budget of more than $6 billion that includes federal block grants and state funding. You will lead the division's legislative coordination, compliance program, and contracting processes while supervising a team of professional staff, and your work will impact behavioral health services across Washington.

Requirements

Strategic Thinking: Develop innovative ideas that provide solutions to workplace challenges.
Demonstrated ability to identify internal and external factors that impact the organization and develop strategies to effectively respond to changing conditions.
Demonstrated ability to evaluate social, fiscal, and political trends and consider their potential impact on agency priorities and operations.
Demonstrated ability to allocate, manage, and redirect budget and resources responsibly and efficiently to support organizational priorities and maximize available resources.
Trust and Integrity: Earn the trust, respect, and confidence of coworkers and clients through consistent honesty, transparency, and professionalism.
Demonstrated ability to model ethical behavior, recognize potential conflicts of interest, and act responsibly and with integrity.
Demonstrated ability to build and maintain trust through honest and candid communication while demonstrating compassion, diplomacy, fairness, and professionalism.
Performance and Accountability: Create and support a performance-based culture focused on accomplishing organizational goals and advancing the agency's mission.
Demonstrated ability to communicate organizational goals and strategies in a way that motivates others and connects the agency's mission, vision, and values to everyday work.
Demonstrated ability to establish clear, realistic, and measurable goals, expectations, deadlines, and outcomes while adjusting priorities as circumstances change.
Advocacy and Relationships: Communicate clear, timely, and persuasive messages that strengthen stakeholder relationships and build commitment and support for agency priorities and objectives.
Demonstrated ability to maintain effective communication with agency leadership and build commitment and support for agency priorities and initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to develop respectful and collaborative relationships that foster shared understanding and support, including when decisions or outcomes affect stakeholders differently.
Demonstrated ability to appropriately engage stakeholders in decision-making processes that may impact them.
Equity lens – All HCA employees are required to consider equity in their decisions, processes, and day-to-day work, including how their work may affect the people and communities we serve.
The ability to take action to learn and grow – You take action to learn and grow by seeking new perspectives, learning from experiences, and using what you’ve learned to continuously improve how you work and serve others.
The ability to take action to meet the needs of others – You take action to meet the needs of others by listening, understanding different perspectives, and responding with care, respect, and solutions that support the people of the communities we serve.

Nice To Haves

A bachelor's or master’s degree in behavioral health, Social Services, Public Administration, Business, or a closely related field.
Demonstrated ability to understand and support government-to-government relationships with Tribal Governments.
Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply applicable federal and state laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
Demonstrated experience applying Washington State procurement and contracting policies, procedures, and requirements.
Demonstrated experience working within Washington State's legislative, budget, and authorizing environment, including analyzing legislation and understanding the legislative process.
Demonstrated experience developing, drafting, and implementing agency policies and procedures.
Demonstrated professional experience in legislative and policy support, system redesign, grant management, contract management, and mental health and/or substance use disorders, including leadership, coordination, and administration of service delivery systems.

Responsibilities

Lead the review, planning, and oversight of the statewide Community Behavioral Health budget, and advise division leaders on the use of CBH funds.
Collaborate on SAMHSA grant applications, reporting, and corrective action plans.
Ensure federal and state compliance for grants and dedicated accounts, including waivers, audits, and compliance reporting.
Coordinate bill analyses, decision packages, agency request legislation, and proviso tracking with the agency Legislative Affairs team.
Serve as the division point of contact with the Office of Financial Management and legislative staff.
Oversee the division's contract development processes and priority contract assignments.
Advise the Attorney General's Office on behavioral health litigation and lead contingency planning on federal funding impacts.
Supervise a team of professional staff and represent the agency with federal partners, legislative staff, and the community.