Behavioral Health Operations & Planning Manager; WMS​/DBHR Internal

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.

All HCA employees are required to be Washington state residents upon their first day of employment.

The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) is seeking a Behavioral Health Operations & Planning Manager to join its operations leadership team. Reporting to the DBHR Chief of Staff, 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.

• 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.

• You'll shape how more than $6 billion in community behavioral health funding supports services for people across Washington.
• You'll be a member of the DBHR leadership team, advising division and agency leaders on high-priority, high-visibility work.
• You'll work directly with legislative staff, the Governor's Office, federal partners, and community stakeholders on rapidly evolving behavioral health policy.
• You'll lead a team of professional staff while solving novel challenges that often come without a roadmap.

You are a strategic thinker who develops practical solutions to complex challenges, even when there is no roadmap. You earn trust through honesty and professionalism, set clear goals, hold yourself and your team accountable, and adjust as priorities shift. You communicate clearly and persuasively with legislators, federal partners, advocates, and staff, and you bring an equity lens to decisions that affect the communities we serve.

Experience may have been gained through paid or unpaid activities. Please ensure any relevant experience defined below is outlined in your cover letter, resume, and application.

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.

Earn the trust, respect,…