In this pivotal role, you'll report to the WA Cares Fund Deputy Director of Operations and spearhead strategic initiatives that influence core business processes, program policies, and statewide long-range planning. You’ll lead professional-level business analysis and project coordination efforts, while collaborating with executive management, implementing legislative mandates, and shaping transformative systems and policies that impact thousands of lives.

Our current openings offer workstations in Colfax, Spokane, Union Gap, Clarkston, Kennewick, Walla Walla, Colville, Moses Lake, or Wenatchee

As a WA Cares Fund Assessor Specialist, you’ll meet people both in-person and remote to conduct long-term care functional assessments under the WA Cares Fund program. Whether it’s in their home, a hospital room, a nursing facility, or a residential care setting, you’ll conduct thoughtful, compassionate assessments to help determine their eligibility for self-directed long-term care services. You’ll craft personalized care plans that reflect everyone’s unique needs and goals, helping them stay in or return to their community with the support they need to thrive.

In this role, you’ll serve as the division’s lead and subject matter expert for benefit transitions and the intake system. Reporting to the Benefits Innovation Unit Manager, this position provides strategic direction and operational leadership to ensure the system effectively supports WCF’s mission, policy objectives, and statewide service delivery goals.

This job will require significant travel statewide for in person Tribal Meetings.

Some of what you'll do:

• Formulate statewide policy and procedures to strategically align WA Cares Fund and tribal participation
• Formulate agency rules, revise existing rules as required to comport with goals identified through tribal partnerships
• Represent WA Cares Fund in policy workgroups pertaining to tribes
• Formulate contract language to enable tribal participation in compliance with state, federal and tribal law
• Provide expert analysis and consultation to policy and provider network units within the WA Cares Fund division to facilitate tribal participation