Commerce Specialist Olympia

Our vision is to ensure that “Washington state’s children and youth grow up safe and healthy, thriving physically, emotionally, and educationally, nurtured by family and community.”

Job Title:

Commerce Specialist 3 (CS3)

Location:

Olympia, WA - This position is hybrid with the expectation of in-person attendance to meet business needs.

Closes:
Sunday, November 8th, 2026

Salary: $67,704 - $91,104 Annually

DCYF’s Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) is seeking a Commerce Specialist 3 to serve as the Early Learning Management System (ELMS) Data Coordinator. This role provides critical support for early learning programs by offering technical assistance to ELMS users, monitoring contractual requirements for ECEAP and Early Childhood Intervention Prevention Services (ECLIPSE), and analyzing and presenting program data. The position works closely with internal teams, external partners, and early learning providers to ensure accurate data use, strong program accountability, and high-quality services for children and families.

As an ELMS Data Coordinator, you will assist the coordination, analysis, and data management functions that support ECEAP and ECLIPSE statewide. You will deliver individualized consultation, troubleshoot system issues, support users in meeting reporting requirements, and provide clear, actionable data to inform program decisions. This role requires a high level of independence, responsibility, and expertise in early learning and data systems, offering an opportunity to directly strengthen outcomes for Washington’s youngest learners and their families.

• Develop and maintain cooperative relationships with system users and contractors, which include business, industry, government and community organizations.
• Implement program policy within ELMS for internal and external providers and stakeholders regarding state or federal guidelines.
• Resolve complex requests from and provide technical assistance to ELMS users, which requires specialized early learning system and policy knowledge. This requires cross-team,
  cross-division or cross-agency coordination.
• Support ELMS Support Lead with shared inbox.
• Assist ELMS product owner.
• Utilize expert knowledge to anticipate potential conflict and programmatic/implementation barriers, analyze business, management or technology needs within ELMS.
• Document and recommend technical requirements and future system enhancements.
• Provides user acceptability testing for new technical application releases and functionality, troubleshoot potential technical issues affecting users, reports issues to ELMS Product
  Owner.
• Monitor and document contractual requirements compliance, including and not limited to eligibility, child assessment and staff qualifications data entry, monthly reports.
• Research and analyze comprehensive reports, including desktop comprehensive reports.
• Have working knowledge of state and federal guiding resources including ECEAP and ECLIPSE Performance Standards.
• Prepare data and reports for researchers, legislators, and others requesting information about ECEAP and ECLIPSE. Maintains data integrity for public and confidential information, uses information for creation of user profiles, update records and manage sensitive data.
• Leads, or independently manage, a share of ECEAP projects.

• Equivalent combination of education and experience in comprehensive Pre-K data at the community or state level, or other related professional experience totaling six (6) years.

OR

• Bachelor’s degree and two (2) years of professional experience in comprehensive Pre-K data at the community or state level, or other related professional experience.

OR

• Associate’s Degree and four (4) years of…