Real Estate Strategy & Management Services Section Chief; Administrative Officer

As Chief of the Management Services & Strategic Real Estate Planning Section for DGS Bureau of Real Estate (BRE), this management position provides strategic leadership, direction, and oversight for bureau-wide initiatives related to organizational planning, and real estate modernization. The incumbent serves as advisor to the Bureau Director on strategic real estate planning, portfolio optimization, alternative delivery and redevelopment opportunities, underutilized property strategies, business systems, and organizational performance.

This position also leads cross-functional initiatives that strengthen the Commonwealth's management of real property assets through data-driven decision making, process improvement, interagency collaboration, and modernization of business practices while ensuring effective administrative operations, resource management, and organizational accountability. You will lead forward-thinking efforts that help create efficient, accountable, and innovative real estate operations.

As Chief of the Management Services & Strategic Real Estate Planning Section for DGS Bureau of Real Estate (BRE), this management position provides strategic leadership, direction, and oversight for bureau-wide initiatives related to organizational planning, and real estate modernization. The incumbent serves as advisor to the Bureau Director on strategic real estate planning, portfolio optimization, alternative delivery and redevelopment opportunities, underutilized property strategies, business systems, and organizational performance.

This position also leads cross-functional initiatives that strengthen the Commonwealth's management of real property assets through data-driven decision making, process improvement, interagency collaboration, and modernization of business practices while ensuring effective administrative operations, resource management, and organizational accountability. You will lead forward-thinking efforts that help create efficient, accountable, and innovative real estate operations.

This position oversees strategic planning, management services, and major operational functions that support the Commonwealth's real estate goals. As a Real Estate Strategy & Management Services Section Chief, you will perform the following duties:

• Strategic Leadership:
  Guide Bureau-wide planning, analysis, and operational coordination
• Portfolio Planning:
  Identify opportunities that improve asset use, redevelopment, and disposition of properties
• Stakeholder
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work with internal and external partners to resolve planning issues and advance modernization efforts
• Business Systems Oversight:
  Direct bureau-wide systems, data governance, and IMWS modernization activities
• Policy Development:
  Create accountability tools, performance measures, and reporting methods that improve operations

Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding this position can be found in the position description.

• Full-time employment
• Work hours are 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday - Friday, with 60-minute lunch.
• Candidate must also be able to travel to Harrisburg, or other locations around the state to conduct site visits or attend in person meetings as required to perform job duties and meet operational needs
• Telework:
  You may have the opportunity to work from home (telework) part-time, two to three days per week required at headquarters in Harrisburg. In order to telework, you must have a securely configured high-speed internet connection and work from an approved location inside Pennsylvania. If you are unable to telework, you will have the option to report to the headquarters office in Harrisburg.
  
  The ability to telework is subject to change at any time. Additional details may be provided during the interview.
• Salary:
  
  In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
• You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.

• One year as an Administrative Officer 3 (Commonwealth job title or equivalent Federal Government job title, as determined by the Office of Administration); or
• Six years of experience in progressively responsible and varied office management or staff work, including experience in personnel management, budgeting, or procurement; and such training as may have…