Director, Office of Enterprise Risk Management (WMS3) DOH8539
Washington State Department of Health
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Posted: 17-Jan-25
Location: Tumwater, Washington
Type: Full Time
Salary: $104,196 to $142,512 Annually
Internal Number: DOH8539
Director of Enterprise Risk Management (WMS3
Center for Facilities, Risk and Adjudication (CFRA) – Office of Enterprise Risk Management
Fulltime - Permanent - Home-based
Lead the Office of Enterprise Risk Management!
The Center for Facilities, Risk, and Adjudication (CFRA) at the Department of Health seeks a dynamic leader to direct the Office of Enterprise Risk Management (OERM). CFRA plays a pivotal role in providing leadership and support across the agency in the areas of adjudicative services, enterprise risk management, and facilities. CFRA is dedicated to proactively identifying and addressing risks, ensuring fair and consistent legal processes in adjudicative matters, and creating safe, efficient work environments that empower employees to excel. CFRA serves both internal agency teams and the public, working to safeguard the agency’s operations and enhance its overall effectiveness.
As the Director of OERM, you will assist the agency in critically identifying, analyzing, treating, and managing risk, compliance with various legal processes and statutory requirements, continually improving agency operations and efficiency. You’ll be responsible for agency Risk Management, Privacy, External Audit/Internal Controls, Information Governance, Civil Rights, and Public Disclosure. This role reports to the Chief of CFRA, serves as a key member of the CFRA leadership team, and manages a team of 6 direct reports and over 57 staff.
This critical position supports the agency's mission by leading programs that identify and mitigate risks, ensure compliance with federal and state laws, and enhance organizational resilience. This position provides expert level advice on risk mitigation, privacy, audits, information governance, civil rights, and public disclosure for the entire agency, and is responsible for managing risks and developing and implementing systems of risk mitigation and control.
This position manages the agency’s Enterprise Risk Management Office, and is responsible for assisting the agency with: 1) managing risk to the agency by ensuring compliance and accountability to state laws and department regulations, procedures; 2) promoting compliance and accountability to laws and policies; 3) development and implementation of a risk management program that provides direction and guidance to all levels of the organization with the purpose of reducing the agency’s risk and promoting best practices toward risk minimization; 4) managing litigation and tort claims, serving as the agency liaison to the Attorney Generals Office; 5) ensuring that the areas of enterprise risk management, information governance, privacy, external audit, internal controls, civil rights, and public disclosure all operate consistently with Washington state and federal law and the agency’s strategic plan; 6) promoting, coordinating, and managing agency compliance with federal and state statutes and rules governing these programs, and to ensure program requirements and goals are met; 7) managing and overssing the development, implementation, and approval of all required state and federal civil rights program policies and plan documents, Title VI Plan, Limited English Proficiency Plan, and Title II ADA transition plan; and 8) leading continuous improvement of the agency’s audit functions, including through providing best practices to agency staff, proposing policies and procedures.
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