Organizational and Transition Management Officer

Salary / Compensation

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The starting salary offer will be determined based on the successful candidates’ qualifications within the budgeted salary range of $155,000 - $175,000 annually. However, there is the potential for longevity, growth, and salary progression for the individual once employed.

The Office of Financial Management (OFM) serves as the backbone of Washington state government. Our mission is to make our state a better place by connecting people, budgets, policies, data, and systems for state agencies and the Legislature. Our team includes budget advisors, researchers, and other experts, all dedicated public servants working towards an equitable future for every Washingtonian. If you want to play a key role in enhancing how state government serves its citizens, you’ve found the right place.

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The Organizational Change and Transition Management Officer leads organizational change management (OCM) for the One Washington Program, supporting employees, leaders, agencies, and other partners through the organizational, process, and technology changes. This position develops and implements an integrated change management strategy that aligns workforce readiness, communications, training, business partner engagement, and adoption with program priorities and implementation milestones. The role establishes effective practices for assessing change impacts, organizational readiness, adoption, and change-related risks, while ensuring that the needs of employees and agencies’ stakeholders are considered throughout the transformation.

The position provides strategic guidance to program leaders and managers on employee engagement, leadership readiness, organizational impacts, and workforce resilience. Working across program and agency teams, the position identifies barriers to successful change and develops practical, inclusive approaches that strengthen communication, trust, engagement, and organizational readiness. Success in this role requires strong relationship-building, collaboration, communication, and change leadership skills, along with the ability to navigate complex environments and help diverse business partners understand, adopt, and sustain new processes, systems, and ways of working.

One Washington (OneWA), led by the Office of Financial Management, is an enterprise-wide transformation project focused on replacing 1960s-era technology with a cloud-based Workday solution for finance, procurement, budget, HR, and payroll processes. The project’s core business hours are Monday through Friday, and all project positions are full-time. We offer some flexibility in schedules, subject to core business hours and prior supervisory approval.

However, it is very common to work beyond the typical 40-hour workweek to meet the rigorous operational needs and business deliverables required for the go-live timelines.

OCM Strategy, Governance, and Program Integration

• Leads the development, implementation, and continuous refinement of the One Washington Program’s organizational change management (OCM) strategy and roadmap, integrating internal workforce and external agency/participant change efforts with program objectives, implementation milestones, and the ERP transformation lifecycle.
• Establishes OCM priorities, methodologies, governance practices, and standards and integrates management considerations into program planning, decision-making, transition governance, and implementation activities.

Readiness, Adoption, and Change Impact

• Lead the program-wide approach to organizational readiness and adoption, establishing frameworks and methodologies for participant…