Senior Program Analyst - Asset Management Division

Title: Senior Program Analyst - Asset Management Division

State Role Title: Prog Admin Specialist III

Hiring Range: $89,381 - $145,244

Pay Band: 6

Agency: VA Dept of Transportation

Location: Central Office, Richmond, Virginia

Agency Website:  https://www.virginiadot.org/jobs

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is excited to offer and announce an opportunity to serve as a Senior Program Analyst in the Asset Management Division in our Central Office. This position is located in Richmond, Virginia.

What drives you? Whether it's knowing the work you do makes a difference, having a great work/life balance, working on exciting and challenging projects, leading innovation, and championing change or simply working with a great group of people who are committed to professionalism, at the Virginia Department of Transportation, we have something for you.

The successful candidate will facilitate and coordinate with program stakeholders to budget, monitor, report and analyze the funding allocated to highway infrastructure maintenance across the Commonwealth.

Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Project Implementation: Plan, develop and ensure implementation of projects with program support for VDOT's business functions.

Business Process Needs Identification: Work with management and leadership to strategically identify and prioritize needed business processes.

Business Processes Development and Management: Develop and manage business processes related to assigned program areas.

Program Review: Identify agency risk, challenges, and opportunities for assigned program areas.

Standard Operating Procedures: Develop documentation and implementation information needed to support standard operating procedures for all functions.

Business Process Improvement: Provide technical and expert consultation to employees at levels of the business unit on critical knowledge needed to support process improvement and decision making.

External Representation: Represent VDOT programs to external parties.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with diverse audiences.
• Effective presentation skills.
• Skill in the use of computers and software applications.
• Technical skills in assigned program areas.
• Knowledge of management principles.
• Experience in business and project management.
• Experience in program evaluation, development and implementation.

Additional Considerations

• A combination of training, experience, or education in Business, Public Administration, or related field desired.
• Experience in program evaluation, development and implementation.
• Experience developing business process improvement programs.

VDOT employees serve the citizens of the Commonwealth and the travelling public daily through our mission to plan, deliver, operate and maintain a transportation system that is safe, moves people and goods, enhances the economy, and improves quality of life. VDOT is the third largest state-maintained highway system in the country, maintaining over 58,000 miles of roads, bridges, and tunnels, and employing over 7700 people through a diverse workforce. Our culture includes teamwork, transparency, nimble learning, creativity and collaboration that values differences.

We are a “Virginia Values Veterans” (V3) official certified company and state agency that provides hiring preference to Veterans and Members of the Virginia National Guard in support of Executive Order 29, (2010). If you are a Veteran or Virginia National Guard Member, we urge you to respond accordingly on your state application.

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is an Equal Opportunity Employer by both policy and practice. For more information about our employment practices, please visit “Information for VDOT Employees and Applicants”: http://www.virginiadot.org/jobs/information_for_employees.asp

We have Shared Values and a Code of Ethics. Your success in our organization depends upon modelling these values, therefore visit http://www.virginiadot.org/about/missionandvalues.asp to review them and, if in agreement, we welcome you to apply.

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

This position requires a fingerprint based Criminal History Background Check, DMV Record Check and Work History Verification with references.

VDOT is an emergency operation agency. Positions physically working within Central Office locations may be designated upon request with coordination among the respective District Engineer or Administrator and Chief. Assignments are updated annually. Not all designated employees are provided with an emergency operations assignment.

Once onboarded, this position may be eligible for telework opportunities; availability, hours, and duration of telework shall be approved as outlined in the Commonwealth telework policy (only for eligible positions).

VDOT utilizes a market-based pay program, which has been approved by DHRM. Therefore, advertised rates of pay may or may not align with the Commonwealth pay bands.

Additional positions may be filled from this recruitment within 90 days.

Contact Information

Name: Tammy Varble

Phone: (804) 297-1568

Email: tammy.varble@vdot.virginia.gov

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.