Portfolio Planning & Analysis Unit Manager (SDA)

Salary : $168,597.31 - $214,820.11 Annually
Location : King Street Center - 201 S Jackson St, Seattle, WA
Job Type: Temporary
Job Number:
Department: DNRP-Natural Resources & Parks
Division: Wastewater Treatment
Opening Date: 11/05/2026
Closing Date: 11/19/2026 11:59 PM Pacific
FLSA: Exempt
Bargaining Unit: F9 : L117-WTD Section &Assist Mgr
Full- or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours/Week: 40 hours/week

Summary
This opportunity is open to current King County employees. External applicants are not being considered.

This recruitment aims to fill a Special Duty Assignment position for up to 12 months in duration.
The Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD) is seeking an experienced and collaborative leader to serve in a Special Duty Assignment as the Portfolio Planning and Analysis Unit Manager. This position provides leadership for WTD's centralized capital portfolio management function, helping the Division make sound, transparent, and data-informed decisions about its capital investments. The Unit Manager leads the Portfolio Planning and Analysis team, which manages WTD's capital portfolio management framework, including project prioritization, resource planning, portfolio performance analysis and reporting, and portfolio management standards, processes, and policies. The position also plays a key role in managing WTD's three-tier capital governance structure, ensuring capital decisions are clearly framed, supported by appropriate information and analysis, and routed to the appropriate decision-making level based on established authorities and decision rights.

About the Role:
The Unit Manager also leads the PRISM team, which manages the enterprise project information system supporting WTD's capital projects, programs, and contracts. PRISM integrates financial, schedule, forecasting, appropriation, sustainability, compliance, and other project information to provide a consistent foundation for project management, portfolio oversight, and executive decision-making. Together, the Portfolio Planning and Analysis and PRISM teams connect strategy, governance, data, and capital delivery, providing leaders across WTD with the information needed to balance competing priorities and limited resources, monitor the health of the capital portfolio, and invest in the right projects and programs at the right time and for the right reasons.

This position follows a hybrid work model, blending remote and in-person work.
About the Team:
The Portfolio Planning and Analysis (PPA) Unit provides leadership for WTD's centralized capital portfolio management function, ensuring that investments are transparent, equitable, and aligned with the Division's mission to protect public health and the environment. The Unit guides investment prioritization, resource planning, portfolio performance analysis and reporting, and the standards, processes, and policies that shape capital decision-making. The PPA Unit manages all capital portfolio categories, including: asset management for conveyance systems, asset management for treatment plants, capacity improvements, operational enhancements, regulatory compliance (including CSO), resource recovery, resiliency, and strategic opportunities.

The PPA Unit also oversees the PRISM enterprise project information system, which integrates financial, schedule, forecasting, appropriation, sustainability, compliance, and other project data to support consistent project management and portfolio oversight. Together, these functions connect strategy, governance, data, and capital delivery, giving WTD leaders the tools to balance competing priorities and limited resources, monitor the health of the capital portfolio, and invest in the right projects and programs at the right time.

The PPA Unit's culture emphasizes collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement. The team is committed to equity in how capital decisions are framed and advanced, and recognizes the environmental impact of its work in shaping sustainable infrastructure for the region. By fostering an inclusive and supportive environment, the PPA Unit helps staff grow as leaders while ensuring that WTD's capital portfolio reflects both community needs and organizational goals.

Job Duties
What You Will Be Doing:

• Provide strategic portfolio leadership by overseeing WTD's centralized capital portfolio management framework, ensuring investments are transparent, equitable, and aligned with public health and environmental goals.
• Guide portfolio governance and decision-making in conjunction with WTD's three-tier capital governance boards, framing decisions with clear analysis, and ensuring appropriate processes are applied and documented.
• Lead portfolio planning and analysis functions including project prioritization, resource planning, portfolio performance reporting, and the development of portfolio standards, processes, and policies.
• Collaborate extensively with WTD's Finance & Administration Section to align portfolio planning with rate and budget processes, ensuring capital investment decisions are financially sound, coordinated, and clearly connected to long-term affordability and sustainability goals.
• Serve on WTD's Senior Leadership Team alongside all unit managers and plant managers, with the purpose of bringing senior leaders together to share critical information, discuss strategic opportunities and challenges, and foster alignment and collaboration across the organization in support of WTD's mission, vision, values, goals, and strategies.

Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills

Qualifications You Bring:

• Ability to provide strategic portfolio leadership by overseeing a centralized capital portfolio management framework, ensuring investments are transparent, equitable, and aligned with public health and environmental goals.
• Ability to guide portfolio governance and decision-making in conjunction with multi-tier governance boards, framing decisions with clear analysis and ensuring appropriate processes are applied and documented.
• Ability to guide the PRISM enterprise project information system team, integrating financial, schedule, forecasting, appropriation, sustainability, compliance, and other project data to support consistent project management and portfolio oversight.
• Ability to serve effectively on a senior leadership team, fostering alignment, collaboration, and consistent strategies across the organization in support of WTD's mission, vision, values, goals, and strategies.

Competencies You Bring:

• Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals.
• Manages Complexity: Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Optimizes Work Processes: Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strategic Portfolio Leadership - Ability to lead a centralized capital portfolio framework so investments are transparent, equitable, and aligned with public health and environmental goals.
• Governance and Decision Making - Ability to guide portfolio governance with multi-tier boards, using clear analysis and ensuring processes are applied and documented.
• PRISM Oversight - Ability to lead the PRISM team, integrating financial, schedule, forecasting, sustainability, compliance, and other project data to support consistent project management and portfolio oversight.
• Senior Leadership Collaboration - Ability to serve effectively on a senior leadership team, fostering alignment, collaboration, and consistent strategies across the organization in support of WTD's mission, vision, values, and goals.

Supplemental Information

Working Conditions:

• Work Location: The Portfolio, Planning, & Analysis team works in a hybrid model, with days in the office as well as telecommuting. The ratio of remote to onsite work will be dependent on business needs and is subject to change. The primary onsite location is King Street Center, 201 S. Jackson, Seattle, Washington 98104. Employees must reside in Washington state and within a reasonable distance to their King County worksite to respond to workplace reporting requirements. On occasion, you may need to work at other King County worksites, including WTD treatment plant locations including:
  
  • West Point Treatment Plant, 1400 Discovery Park Blvd., Seattle
  • South Treatment Plant, 1200 Monster Road S.W., Renton
  • Brightwater Treatment Plant, 22505 State Route 9 S.E., Woodinville
• King County has a robust collection of to support working remotely. The individual selected for this opportunity will join an innovative and progressive team that is redefining how we work as we transition to the department's hybrid environment. Employees will be provided with a County-issued laptop and must maintain a home workspace with an internet connection where they can reliably perform work and remain available and responsive during scheduled work hours.
• Work Schedule: This position is exempt from the overtime provision of the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA) and is not overtime eligible.
• Union Representation: This position is represented by Teamsters Local 117 - Wastewater Treatment Division, Managers and Assistant Managers Salary reflects $2.00 per hour contribution to the Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Trust.

Application Instructions:

We welcome applications from all qualified applicants. We value diversity, diverse perspectives and life experience and encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

Application materials will be screened for clarity, completeness and alignment with the experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skills essential for this role to determine which candidates may be invited to participate in one or more panel interviews.

Anticipated Timeline for this recruitment: (subject to change)

• Technical Vetting interview (Virtual): 12/01

• Panel interviews (Virtual): 12/03

To apply, submit a:

• Complete Application
• Resume
• Cover Letter

Note: Additional documents won't be considered during minimum qualification screening.