Manager Levy County Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Salary : $129,968.18 - $164,742.03 Annually
Location : Multiple locations in King County, WA
Job Type: Career Service (Exec)
Job Number: 2026AW27511
Department: DCHS - Community & Human Srvcs
Division: Adult Services
Opening Date: 09/04/2026
Closing Date: 9/19/2026 11:59 PM Pacific
FLSA: Exempt
Bargaining Unit: Z3 : KC Personnel Guidelines
Full- or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours/Week: 40 hours/week
Summary
The Department of Community and Human Services values diverse perspectives and life experiences. The Department encourages people of all backgrounds to apply, including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, immigrants, refugees, women, LGBTQ, people with disabilities, veterans, and those with lived experiences.
King County's provides equitable opportunities for people to be healthy, happy, and connected to community.
The Adult Services Division (ASD) of DCHS works in partnership with communities to develop, support, and provide human services programs focused on achieving results in housing stability, financial stability, healthy living, and social engagement for veterans, service members, and their families; older adults and their caregivers; and other resilient communities. The division's work also includes efforts to strengthen connections within and improve access to the human services system.
ASD manages and provides equity-focused stewardship of revenue from the Veterans, Seniors, and Human Services Levy (VSHSL), the RCW 73.08 veterans relief fund and King County general fund-funded human services programs. ASD also supports the King County VSHSL Advisory Board, the King County Veterans Advisory Board, and the King County Women's Advisory Board. King County is an active partner in King County's Area Agency on Aging.
An ASD Senior Manager - Service Strategy, Policy, and Community Investments leads high-impact work across service strategy, community investment program design, provider contracting, policy development, and public fund stewardship.
This role serves as a leader of a staffing unit and is responsible for overseeing a large and complex portfolio of human services investments and service delivery strategies. The position manages Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and oversees resulting contracts. This includes contract development, certification, management, compliance, provider technical assistance. The role also includes the development and/or implementation of related policies and practices to ensure ASD programs and contracts following specified requirements while also being accountable and responsive to community needs and stakeholder input.
Under this recruitment, ASD will fill two career service roles:

• Adults and Caregivers Policy Senior Manager - Projects focused on serving older adults and their caregivers, and members of resilient communities: Leads strategy, solicitation planning, contract development, provider coordination, implementation, risk management, compliance, staff supervision, and continuous improvement for ASD's non-veteran contracted investment portfolio.

• Veterans Initiatives & Policy Senior Manager - Projects focused on serving veterans, service members, and their families: Leads strategy, solicitation planning, contract development, provider coordination, implementation, risk management, compliance, staff supervision, and continuous improvement for ASD's veterans-related direct service programs and contracted investment portfolio.

Each year, ASD invests more than $65 million through over 500 agreements, including community services contracts, Memoranda of Agreement, Letters of Agreement, and other funding tools. This work requires close coordination across contracting and procurement, fiscal, legal, performance measurement and evaluation, communications, policy, program operations, community engagement, providers, and other County partners.
The work is highly visible, financially significant, and directly tied to the County's responsibility to steward public funds and deliver services to older adults, caregivers, veterans, service members and their families, resilient communities, and other priority populations.
Depending on the assignment, this role may supervise unit or program managers and oversee teams of approximately 25 employees responsible for planning, contract development, certification, compliance, monitoring, and administration. The work supports ASD's five result areas: Housing Stability, Healthy Living, Financial Stability, Social Engagement, and Service System Access and Improvement.
This Senior Manager also serves as a strategic advisor to division and department leaders, resolves complex implementation issues, manages risk, develops policy and procedural solutions, and leads improvements that strengthen ASD's contracting, procurement, compliance, and investment stewardship systems.
The non-veteran role reports to the Chief of Community Investments and Provider Supports. The veteran role reports to the Chief of Veterans Initiatives and Direct Service Strategies. Both roles also have matrixed responsibilities to the ASD Division Director and Deputy Director.
WHO MAY APPLY: This position is open to all qualified candidates that meet the minimum qualifications. Interviews for this selection process will take place on or around October 5th, 2026.
APPLICATION PROCESSIf you are interested in pursuing this position, please follow the application instructions carefully. If you need this announcement in an alternate language or format, would like to request accommodation or assistance in the application or assessment process or if you have questions, please contact the recruiter listed on this job announcement.
The following items are required to be considered for this vacancy:

• NeoGov Job Application (The responses on your job application should be thorough and complete and will be used in the screening process)
• Supplemental Questions (The responses to the supplemental questions should be thorough and complete and will be used in the screening process)

Your application may be rejected as incomplete if you do not include the relevant information in the application. Cover letters and/or resumes are not accepted in lieu of a completed application. Applications and/or Supplemental Questionnaires that state "see my resume" or "see my personnel file" are considered incomplete and will not be accepted.
This selection process may also be used to create a pool of candidates for current and future career service, term-limited-temporary, and special duty opportunities. The pool will be active for 6 months.
WORK SCHEDULE/CONDITIONS:
This position is exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and is not eligible for overtime. Typical hours are Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm
MISSION CRITICAL POSITION STATUS: This position has been designated Mission Critical. Unless otherwise directed by the County Executive, department director or agency head, all employees, regardless of designation, are expected to report to work or request leave during an emergency or inclement weather. For more detailed information, please visit and the
RECRUITER: Alan Wedge, alwedge@kingcounty.gov
Job Duties
Leadership, Project Governance, and Staff Development - 20%

• Provide senior-level leadership, supervision, and project governance for assigned teams and program areas.
• Supervise, coach, train, and evaluate unit managers and staff, which may include oversight of up to approximately 25 employees.
• Lead a large, complex, multi-phase portfolio of work involving contract development, procurement support, certification, compliance, monitoring, risk management, quality control, and implementation support.
• Set priorities, clarify roles and responsibilities, manage competing timelines, and ensure deliverables meet Division, Department, County, and fund source requirements.
• Oversee staff development, quality control reviews, and contract-related training to strengthen accuracy, consistency, timeliness, and work quality.
• Lead matrixed project teams and cross-functional work groups that include ASD staff, department partners, fiscal staff, procurement specialists, PME staff, communications staff, and program subject matter experts.

Strategy and Contract Development, Project Implementation, and Compliance - 20%

• Oversee program strategy design and the full contract development, certification, and administration process for ASD's large-scale community investment portfolio.
• Ensure contracts, solicitations, waivers, MOAs, monitoring tools, and related documents comply with Division, Department, County, State, and fund source requirements.
• Manage complex timelines, certification workflows, risk issues, quality standards, and budget considerations.
• Identify and resolve implementation barriers, recommend solutions to senior leaders and stakeholders, and maintain documentation that supports audit readiness, public accountability, and sound decision-making.
• Lead contractor risk assessments, monitoring plans, desk reviews, corrective action strategies, and compliance improvement efforts.
• Establish acceptance criteria, performance expectations, and documentation standards to ensure contracted services and deliverables meet public benefit, allowable use, and stewardship requirements.

Strategic Planning, Risk Management, and Continuous Improvement - 15%

• Lead division and team-level quality improvement projects that strengthen ASD's contracting, monitoring, procurement, and compliance systems.
• Use LEAN, project management, and continuous improvement methods to define problems, identify root causes, manage change, and evaluate results.
• Coordinate complex, multi-phase improvement efforts across business operations and department partners.
• Improve contract certification workflows, risk assessment tools, monitoring protocols, procurement practices, provider documentation requirements, and internal review processes.
• Research and recommend strategies, policies, procedures, and project controls that improve procurement practices, reduce administrative barriers, support equitable provider access, and align investments with Division and County goals.
• Develop project charters, work plans, risk mitigation plans, schedules, performance measures, and implementation tools for major process improvement initiatives.

Collaboration, Stakeholder Engagement, and Cross-Agency Integration - 15%

• Co-lead collaboration with internal and external partners, including Operations, Veterans Services, Policy and Community Engagement (PaCE), Contracting and Procurement, Fiscal, PME, Communications, legal partners, providers, contractors, and department offices.
• Coordinate across agencies, divisions, and business functions to resolve complex contracting, procurement, fiscal, compliance, and implementation issues.
• Support consultations, business negotiations, outreach, technical assistance, presentations, briefings, and workshops for providers, contractors, senior leaders, and community audiences.
• Navigate competing priorities among internal teams, providers, fund source requirements, community expectations, and County leadership.
• Communicate complex technical, financial, regulatory, and operational information clearly to support decision-making in a politically sensitive environment.

Policy Development, Compliance Strategy, and Senior Advisory Support - 15%

• Serve as a senior subject matter expert and advisor to the Division Director, Deputy Director, Chiefs, and other senior leaders on contracting rules, procurement options, cost considerations, compliance risks, and public fund stewardship.
• Develop interim policies, guidance, procedures, tools, and decision frameworks to close gaps, improve consistency, and support compliance.
• Analyze legislation, policy changes, audit findings, fund source requirements, and operational risks affecting ASD's investment portfolio.
• Support disaster response, continuity planning, and service continuity strategies for contracted human services.
• Serve as a senior subject matter expert on contract management, procurement alignment, risk mitigation, and responsible stewardship of public funds.

Data Analysis, Reporting, Performance Measurement, and Documentation - 15%

• Analyze contract, monitoring, risk, certification, procurement, and investment data to support decision-making.
• Prepare reports, briefings, performance summaries, and project documentation for leadership, partners, providers, and stakeholders.
• Establish success measures, acceptance criteria, performance indicators, and reporting methods.
• Maintain accurate, complete, and auditable project records, contract files, monitoring documents, and decision records.
• Use documentation and performance information to support program design, budget management, compliance review, performance measurement, and capacity building.

Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills
Candidate will bring at least six (6) years of progressively responsible experience in contract or grant administration, including three (3) years in a supervisory role.
Experience must include contract administration, budget management, and direction or administration of public programs or services, with at least three (3) years of professional-level experience involving four (4) or more of the following:

• Develop and carry out compliance and risk management strategies, including improvements to internal controls, practices, and procedures.
• Design and evaluate services or programs that require significant organizational resources.
• Design and evaluate solicitation strategies, procurement processes, and contracting practices.
• Develop and manage organizati