Statewide Regulatory Program Administrator

About the Department

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 ORIA’s 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 ORIA’s 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 ORIA’s 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.

Other Qualifications

Benefits

More than Just a Paycheck!
Employee benefits are not just about the kind of services you get, they are also about how much you may have to pay out of pocket. Washington State offers one of the most competitive benefits packages in the nation.

We understand that your life revolves around more than just your career. Like everyone, your first priority is ensuring that you and your family will maintain health and financial security. That's why choice is a key component of our benefits package. We have a selection of health and retirement plans, paid leave, staff training and other compensation benefits that you can mix and match to meet your current and future needs.

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The following information describes typical benefits available for full-time employees who are expected to work more than six months. Actual benefits may vary by appointment type or be prorated for other than full-time work (e.g. part-time); view the job posting for benefits details for job types other than full-time.

Note:  If the position offers benefits which differ from the following, the job posting should include the specific benefits. 

Insurance Benefits
Employees and their families are covered by medical (including vision), dental and basic life insurance. There are multiple medical plans with affordable monthly premiums that offer coverage throughout the state.

Staff are eligible to enroll each year in a medical flexible spending account which enables them to use tax-deferred dollars toward their health care expenses. Employees are also covered by basic life and long-term disability insurance, with the option to purchase additional coverage amounts.

To view premium rates, coverage choice in your area and how to enroll, please visit the Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB) website. The Washington Wellness program from the Health Care Authority works with PEBB to support our workplace wellness programs.

Dependent care assistance allows the employee to save pre-tax dollars for a child or elder care expenses.

Other insurance coverage for auto, boat, home, and renter insurance is available through payroll deduction.

The Washington State Employee Assistance Program promotes the health and well-being of employees.

Retirement and Deferred Compensation
State Employees are members of the Washington Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS).  New employees have the option of two employer contributed retirement programs.  For additional information, check out the Department of Retirement Systems' web site.

Employees also have the ability to participate in the Deferred Compensation Program (DCP).  This is a supplemental retirement savings program (similar to an IRA) that allows you control over the amount of pre-tax salary dollars you defer as well as the flexibility to choose between multiple investment options.

Social Security
All state employees are covered by the federal Social Security and Medicare systems. The state and the employee pay an equal amount into the system.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness
If you are employed by a government or not-for-profit organization, and meet the qualifying criteria, you may be eligible to receive student loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

Holidays 
Full-time and part-time employees are entitled to paid holidays and one paid personal holiday per calendar year.

Note: Employees who are members of certain Unions may be entitled to additional personal leave day(s), please refer to position specific Collective Bargaining Agreements for more information.

Full-time employees who work full monthly schedules qualify for holiday compensation if they are employed before the holiday and are in pay status for at least 80 nonovertime hours during the month of the holiday; or for the entire work shift preceding the holiday. 

Part-time employees who are in pay status during the month of the holiday qualify for the holiday on a pro-rata basis. Compensation for holidays (including personal holiday) will be proportionate to the number of hours in pay status in the month to that required for full-time employment, excluding all holiday hours. Pay status includes hours worked and time on paid leave.

Sick Leave 
Full-time employees earn eight hours of sick leave per month. Overtime eligible employees who are in pay status for less than 80 hours per month, earn a monthly proportionate to the number of hours in pay status, in the month to that required for full-time employment. Overtime exempt employees who are in pay status for less than 80 hours per month do not earn a monthly accrual of sick leave. 

Sick leave accruals for part-time employees will be proportionate to the number of hours in pay status, in the month to that required for full-time employment. Pay status includes hours worked, time on paid leave and paid holiday.

Vacation (Annual Leave)
Full-time employees accrue vacation leave at the rates specified in WAC 357-31-165(1) or the applicable collective bargaining agreement (CBA). Full-time employees who are in pay status for less than 80 nonovertime hours in a month do not earn a monthly accrual of vacation leave.

Part-time employees accrue vacation leave hours in accordance with WAC 357-31-165(1) or the applicable collective bargaining agreement (CBA) on a pro rata basis. Vacation leave accrual will be proportionate to the number of hours in pay status, in the month to that required for full-time employment.

Pay status includes hours worked, time on paid leave and paid holiday.

As provided in WAC 357-58-175, an employer may authorize a lump-sum accrual of vacation leave or accelerate the vacation leave accrual rate to support the recruitment and/or retention of a candidate or employee for a Washington Management Service position. Vacation leave accrual rates may only be accelerated using the rates established WAC 357-31-165.  

Note: Most agencies follow the civil service rules covering leave and holidays for exempt employees even though there is no requirement for them to do so. However, agencies are required to adhere to the applicable RCWs pertaining holidays and leave.

Military Leave
Washington State supports members of the armed forces with 21 days paid military leave per year.

Bereavement Leave 
Most employees whose family member or household member dies, or for loss of pregnancy, are entitled to five (5) days of paid bereavement leave. In addition, the employer may approve other available leave types for the purpose of bereavement leave.

Additional Leave
Leave Sharing
Parental Leave
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Leave Without Pay

Please visit the State HR Website for more detailed information regarding benefits.

Updated 01-07-2026

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