These remote jobs with state of WA pay $80k and up in annual salary, paid leave, benefits
The state of Washington is hiring for numerous positions with various agencies that pay over $80,000 a year, and each job is remote or remote optional. That’s right around the state’s median income, according to the Economic Services Administration.
The positions include paid sick leave and time off, as well as health benefits. Applications must be submitted through Washington state’s online application portal. You can email careershelp@des.wa.gov or call 360-664-1960.
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The following positions are available:
Department of Enterprise Services
Salary: $100,000 - $107,000 annually
Type: Remote optional
Summary: The supervisor provides guidance and leadership to a team of contacting professionals, who are responsible for helping state agencies and political subdivisions access effective commercial solutions and make it easy to do business with the state.
Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree involving major study in business administration, public administration, business law, commerce, mathematics, statistics, economics, or closely allied field as well as five years of experience in negotiating, administering or terminating contracts, supply chain, or other related fields, contract cost or price analysis or contract. compliance administration
Deadline: Open until filled
Department of Transportation
Assistant Program Manager — Transportation Technical Engineer (hiring for multiple positions)
Salary: $89,271 - $120,078 annually
Type: Remote optional
Summary: This position serves as the program manager for the I-405/SR 167 Program in Bellevue and is responsible for daily management of the program’s budget, monitoring and forecasted budgeting of program expenditures.
Qualifications: At least one year of experience as a transportation engineer 4 or three years of experience as a Transportation engineer 3, bridge engineer 3 or transportation planning specialist 3.
Deadline: June 7 at 11:59 p.m.
Hydraulics Business Manager — Transportation Technical Engineer
Salary: $85,020 - $114,360 annually
Type: Remote optional
Summary: This position communicates hydraulics project development activities to the stormwater, fish passage, hydraulics and hydrology sections and supports workflow in the hydraulics office.
Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or a minimum of three years of professional work experience building, maintaining, and reporting project schedules, budgets, business tools, and program performance information on transportation or other infrastructure projects with an emphasis on effective project management.
Health Care Authority
Staff Attorney — Department of Legal Services (Non-Permanent)
Salary: $84,360 - $118,116 annually
Type: Remote optional
Summary: The attorney serves as an internal presiding officer in Brief Adjudicative Proceedings related to administrative appeals by public and school employees. Cases include Medicaid client appeals, appeals of health benefit plans, Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, self-insurance health plans, and large dollar provider overpayment appeals.
Qualifications: Juris Doctor degree from an ABA-accredited law school and must be an active member in good standing of the Washington State Bar Association within sixty days of appointment.
Deadline: Open until filled
Deputy Contracts Administrator — Department of Legal Services
Salary: $84,360 - $118,116 annually
Type: Remote optional
Summary: The administrator is the section manager of the Office of Contracts and Procurements and provides direction to all HCA contracting, procurement and purchasing activity.
Qualifications: A Juris Doctorate in good standing with the Washington State Bar Association and three years of advanced/senior level state government experience procuring, negotiating, administering or terminating contracts.
Deadline: Open until filled
Master Program Index Technical Lead — Senior/Specialist with Division of Enterprise Technology
Salary: $88,248 - $118,716 annually
Type: Remote optional
Summary: The technical lead serves as the Health and Human Services Enterprise Coalition solution architect and the senior developer for the MPI and its development, support, enhancements, and connections to a wide range of HHS Coalition systems deploying both legacy and new technologies.
Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field and eight years of increasingly more complex information technology experience such as consulting, analyzing, designing, and/or programming computer software applications, or administering or supervising staff who performed work in these information technology disciplines.
Deadline: Open until filled
Health Economics Research Manager
Salary: $84,360 - $118,116 annually
Type: Remote optional
Summary: The research manager reports to the cost and quality analytics manager and works alongside a team composed of highly skilled data professionals with similar programmatic or analytical specializations. This position serves as the data and technical expert for the Prescription Drug Affordability Board.
Qualifications: Master’s degree or higher in mathematics, statistics, public health, health services research, economics, or related field and at least two years of experience in health care research and analytics.
Deadline: Open until filled
Office of the Secretary of State
IT Application Development — Sr/Spec
Salary: $7,354 - $9,893 monthly
Type: Remote only
Summary: This is a senior-level position that involves use and familiarity of a variety of software, including Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio, to perform daily tasks.
Qualifications: Eight years of information technology experience in applications development and four years’ experience working with Microsoft SQL administration.
Deadline: Open until filled
