Statewide Regulatory Program Administrator

Regulatory transparency and accountability program administration

• Lead the development coordination and implementation of statewide regulatory transparency and accountability frameworks for Executive Order 25-03 and related regulatory improvement initiatives.
• Develop and maintain statewide reporting methodologies definitions data standards instructions templates and implementation guidance for credential permit timeliness and regulatory performance reporting.
• Research interpret and explain executive directives statutes policies reporting requirements and program expectations to agency staff and leadership.
• Analyze agency implementation issues reporting gaps data limitations and policy concerns to identify statewide risks and recommend corrective actions.
• Evaluate agency data systems reporting practices workflow processes data definitions and calculation methods to determine whether reported information is complete consistent reasonable and comparable.
• Maintain program records documentation methodologies technical guidance and supporting materials.
• Advise ORIA leadership on statewide implementation status agency readiness statutory barriers operational constraints and program risks.

Permit timeliness and regulatory performance reporting

• Oversee statewide permit timeliness reporting and analysis to ensure compliance under RCW 43.42A and related statutory requirements.
• Compile review validate and analyze permit processing data submitted by agencies.
• Develop guidance for reporting processing times pending applications backlogs decision timelines and related performance measures.
• Evaluate agency reporting practices and identify inconsistencies gaps or barriers affecting statewide comparability.
• Prepare reports summaries charts dashboards briefing materials and recommendations regarding permit timeliness and regulatory performance.
• Analyze trends in permit processing workload backlog conditions customer impacts and operational constraints.
• Support development and maintenance of public-facing permit and credential information repositories.
• Recommend improvements to reporting processes data standards public information and customer experience.

Regulatory Fairness Act and small business coordination

• Support ORIAs responsibilities related to the Regulatory Fairness Act and small business regulatory assistance.
• Coordinate with agency small business liaisons regulatory program staff and external partners to identify common regulatory issues affecting businesses.
• Review and summarize agency information related to small business impacts regulatory assistance practices and customer service needs.
• Support development of guidance outreach materials and resources that help businesses understand and navigate regulatory requirements.
• Identify opportunities to improve agency coordination reduce confusion and improve the accessibility of regulatory information for small businesses.
• Support interagency meetings workgroups and stakeholder engagement activities related to small business regulatory fairness.

Significant Legislative Rules coordination and analysis

• Coordinate statewide collection and review of Significant Legislative Rules information submitted by agencies.
• Review agency submissions to identify trends inconsistencies reporting gaps and issues requiring follow-up.
• Prepare reports briefing materials and recommendations related to rulemaking transparency regulatory impacts and agency compliance with reporting expectations.
• Coordinate with agency rules coordinators policy staff and program managers to clarify requirements and improve reporting quality.

Policy analysis interagency coordination and continuous improvement

• Serve as ORIAs technical consultant to agencies on regulatory transparency permit timeliness credential reporting rulemaking reporting small business regulatory assistance and regulatory performance improvement.
• Research and analyze proposed legislation executive directives policies and operational practices affecting ORIAs regulatory transparency and accountability programs.
• Facilitate interagency meetings workshops and workgroups to resolve program issues and improve statewide implementation.
• Coordinate with state local federal tribal nonprofit and private-sector partners on regulatory transparency and customer experience initiatives.
• Develop draft policies procedures reports guidance documents and program recommendations.

• Professional experience in regulatory program administration policy analysis and data-informed program evaluation or performance analysis.
• Experience must include work in one or more of the following areas: performance reporting interagency coordination permitting licensing rulemaking government transparency project management program implementation or regulatory process improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to research interpret and apply statutes executive orders rules policies procedures and reporting requirements.
• Demonstrated skill developing reporting methodologies data standards reporting instructions technical guidance implementation strategies and program recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex information identify issues evaluate alternatives and develop practical recommendations supported by facts and analysis.
• Proficiency evaluating quantitative and qualitative information to identify trends assess data quality and improve the consistency accuracy and usability of statewide reporting.
• Experience building collaborative relationships and coordinating work across agencies partners and stakeholder groups to achieve shared objectives and resolve implementation challenges.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to prepare reports briefing materials and recommendations and present complex information to executive leadership agency staff legislators stakeholders and the public.
• Demonstrated success in organizing multiple priorities managing competing deadlines exercising sound judgment and working independently under general direction.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve complex policy operational data and stakeholder issues involving multiple agencies and competing interests.
• Ability to learn and grow. Curious about themselves and others who take responsibility for knowing their own strengths and weaknesses and who use their learning to make government programs and processes more efficient and effective to serve all in Washington.
• Ability to meet the needs of others. Flexible adaptable customer-service focused and willing and able to empathetically respond to the unique needs of the people we work with and serve.

• Experience supporting statewide regulatory permitting licensing credentialing or administrative rulemaking programs.
• Knowledge of Washington State regulatory processes executive orders RCWs WACs or public sector reporting requirements.
• Experience developing performance measures reporting methodologies dashboards or public-facing reports that support data-informed decision-making.
• Experience facilitating interagency initiatives stakeholder engagement or cross-functional workgroups involving multiple organizations.
• Experience preparing executive briefings legislative reports policy analyses or recommendations for senior leadership.
• Familiarity with continuous improvement customer experience regulatory modernization or government transparency initiatives.