Mink Bowman Senior Project Manager (Project Manager 3)

Join the Oregon Health Authority’s Behavioral Health Division (BHD) and help shape a healthier, more responsive future for Oregonians. BHD leads Oregon’s publicly funded behavioral health system, ensuring people of all ages can access high-quality mental health and substance use disorder services. Working with counties, Tribes, community providers, and partner agencies, we deliver integrated, community-based services that support OHA’s vision for an accessible and effective behavioral health system.

This position is part of the Director’s Office, providing strategic leadership, coordination, and decision-making support across the Behavioral Health Division. It ensures that priorities, policies, and operations are aligned and communicated clearly while overseeing major statewide programs serving children, youth, families, forensic populations, people with complex needs, older adults, veterans, and individuals needing outpatient, residential, housing, and crisis services.

As a Mink Bowman Senior Project Manager, you will join a new four-person team coordinating activities tied to the federal Mink Bowman lawsuit. Your work will help improve timely admissions and discharges at the Oregon State Hospital and strengthen access to community-based services after hospitalization, aligning with key BHD strategies statewide.

Responsibilities

• Lead project management efforts for initiatives tied to the Mink Bowman lawsuit.
• Coordinate across teams and agencies to improve timely admissions and discharges at the Oregon State Hospital.
• Strengthen access to community-based services after hospitalization.
• Manage workplans and ensure timely completion of tasks.
• Keep leadership informed on project progress and critical initiatives.
• Enhance communication and continuity of care across Oregon’s behavioral health system.

Requirements

• Seven years of professional-level experience related to project management; OR
• Six years of professional-level experience related to project management AND an Oregon Project Management Associate Certification; OR
• Four years of professional-level experience related to project management AND a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Public Administration, or a closely related field; OR
• Two years of professional-level experience AND Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification awarded by the Project Management Institute.

Skills

• Demonstrated ability to determine the impact of work on health equity, ensuring decisions support fair distribution of resources and address historical and contemporary injustices.
• Experience applying established principles, standards, and methods of project management to guide planning and implementation.
• Experience using financial analysis, operational research methods, and business and management principles related to strategic planning and resource coordination.
• Experience applying theories and practices of organizational behavior, administrative systems, and organizational analysis, including advanced statistical methods.
• Demonstrated ability to use knowledge of computer systems analysis, including software and hardware capabilities typical of complex organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to implement effective organizational communication methods and apply qualitative and quantitative techniques to assess program efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity.
• Experience with executive and legislative decision-making processes and applying organizational systems principles to government operations.

Benefits

• Excellent, low-cost medical, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family.
• Optional benefits including life insurance, disability coverage, deferred compensation, and FSA options for health and childcare.
• Generous paid time off: 11 holidays, 3 personal days, monthly sick leave, and vacation accrual starting at 8 hours/month.
• Potential eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
• Retirement security through Public Employees Retirement System (PERS)/Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan (OPSRP).
• Training and development opportunities to grow your career with the State of Oregon.

Pay

$7,537 - $11,098 per month. The salary listed is the non-PERS qualifying range. If the successful candidate qualifies for PERS, the salary range will increase by 6.95%.

Schedule

This is a full-time, permanent, hybrid (5% in-person) position based in Salem, Oregon.

Employment is contingent upon a criminal records check and a driving records check that meets OHA criteria at the time of hire and throughout employment.