Program Manager

Make a difference.

As a Program Manager you will:

• Provide oversight in support of the roles and responsibilities assigned to the Board of Nursing Home Administrators, Applied Behavioral Analysis Advisory Committee, and Music Therapist Committee; developing and implementing health policies and procedures.
• Provide program expertise for development of interpretive statements and rule and legislation review.

Key responsibilities include:

• Serving as a designated technical specialist and agency wide expert on issues of high visibility and high sensitivity: primary contact and communications for commission, board, committee, and Secretary regulated professions for all assigned programs. Acting on behalf of the department to develop and enforce regulations, set licensure, and practice standards, and enforcement of violations.
  • Providing oversight to support the roles and responsibilities of assigned commission, boards, committees, and Secretary professions in OHP. 
  • Providing support at all meetings and conducting, coordinating, or approving examination of assigned commissions, boards, committees, and Secretary professions.
  • Coordinating approval/denial process for lists and labels for educational institutions and professional associations.
  • Working with licensing staff to ensure that credentials are issued according to profession statute and rule and to protect public health and safety.

• Providing rules and legislation program managing in OHP.
  • Leading and facilitating rule development workshops involving internal and external interested parties.
  • Drafting and developing rules, policies, and interpretive statements, coordinating directly with commissions, boards, committees, management, professional associations, licensed professionals, consumers of the health care service, and general public.  
  • Providing significant analyses, small business economic impact statements, and cost benefit analyses of rules and policies as needed, ensuring all components of the rules package are complete and appropriately submitted.

AND (for ALL the above options) the following:

Experience in at least two (2) of the following: 

• Rule, policy or legislative drafting and implementation.
• Health services planning.
• Compiling and analyzing data for reporting.

About Washington State Department of Health

Our programs and services help prevent illness and injury, promote healthy places to live and work, provide information to help people make good health decisions and ensure our state is prepared for emergencies. To accomplish all of these, we collaborate with many partners every day. We help ensure a safer and healthier Washington by: Working to improve health through disease and injury prevention, immunization, and newborn screening Providing health and safety information, education and training so people can make healthy choices Promoting a health and wellness system where we live, learn, work, play and worship Addressing environmental health hazards associated with drinking water, food, air quality and pesticide exposure Protecting you and your family by licensing healthcare professionals, investigating disease outbreaks and preparing for emergencies

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