Deputy Division Director

Deputy Division Director

Strategy and Performance Division

Department of Economic Development

Harry S Truman Building - 301 W. High Street, Jefferson City, MO

ANNUAL SALARY : $90,000 - $95,000 (based upon credentials)

The salary indicated represents a base pay rate. If the individual selected is eligible for a pay differential (e.g., years of service), it will be added to the total compensation in your paycheck. A pay differential does not raise your base pay.

Why You’ll Love This Position:

Do you enjoy leading a team and helping colleagues across your organization drive change and success? Do you value understanding customer needs, identifying problems, improving processes, and measuring results? If so, consider joining the Strategy and Performance Division within Missouri’s Department of Economic Development (DED)! DED’s mission is to help Missourians prosper. The Strategy and Performance Division was established by Executive Order in 2019 to enable DED to enhance its long-term planning and use of data so that DED can more effectively carry out its internal and external operations. DED seeks a deputy division director to help Strategy and Performance achieve its goals and help DED attain its mission.

Key Objectives:

• Objective 1: Champion DED's operational excellence efforts and culture.
  • Supervise DED’s Operational Excellence Coordinator.
  • Maintain awareness of, contribute to, help prioritize, and communicate DED's portfolio of improvement efforts and needs.
  • Build an operational excellence learning agenda for DED that fits agency priorities and includes proactively connecting team members to trainings, best practices, and support.
  • Lead and support continuous improvement projects, especially projects of high strategic importance and those that cross divisional boundaries.
  • Ensure DED’s division leaders are connected with organizational health insights and ways to help them improve their teams' organizational health outcomes.
• Objective 2: Ensure DED's strategic initiative and performance management efforts lead to strong results.
  • Facilitate the successful completion of strategic initiatives on DED's Strategic Placemat by supporting and partnering with initiative owners.
  • Drive the success and improvement of DED's operational dashboard.
  • Help DED divisions and programs develop meaningful performance measures and their program-specific management dashboards.
• Objective 3: Lead, support, and develop a high-performing team.
  • Directly supervise, support, and develop DED's planning and analysis team so they are positioned to improve DED’s strength in strategy and policy research, data analysis and operational excellence.
  • Support, influence, and inspire DED team members across divisions and programs, especially in areas of operational excellence, data analysis/visualization, and project management.
  • Support facilitation of strategy and policy research efforts for the department and with divisions as needed.
  • Lead additional efforts and initiatives within Strategy & Performance division as needed.
• Objective 4: Provide additional leadership for Strategy and Performance Division.
  • Continue to develop strong performance measures within the Strategy & Performance division that encourage and drive strong results.
  • Ensure the Strategy & Performance division has strong processes and systems that facilitate high performance and team member satisfaction.
  • Support the Strategy and Performance team's budget development and management.
  • Support vendor management and procurement as necessary.
  • Support ITSD initiatives as they relate to the Department.
• Objective 5: Additional Responsibilities.
  • Drive DED strategy efforts forward as needed in areas such as contracted program evaluations, stakeholder analyses, SWOT assessments, and Placemat development.
  • Learn, add value to, and maintain accountability for DED's economic impact assessment efforts.
  • Help DED programs measure and improve customer satisfaction.
  • Help DED programs develop and improve their budgetary program descriptions.

Competencies:

• Clear, polished communicator who can drive action through writing, depicting, and presenting concepts and solutions.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with both internal team members and external stakeholders.
• Strong leadership skills that encourages creative thinking, yet maintaining focus.
• Deals effectively with pressure, maintains focus and intensity and remains optimistic and persistent.
• Formulates effective strategies consistent with the business and competitive strategy of the Department.
• Ability to adapt behavior and work methods in response to new information, changing conditions or unexpected obstacles.
• Experience in developing new insights into situations and applying innovate solutions to make organizational improvements.
• Competent in basic data analysis and visualization; ready to learn more advanced techniques.

Qualifications:

• Nine years of professional relevant experience to include at least two years of successful team leadership and supervisory experience. This can be obtained through a combination of work experience and completion of a Bachelor’s degree or higher with an emphasis in Business or Public Administration, Finance, Community or Economic Development, Economics, or a related field.

• Some formal training in key operational excellence capability areas, including:

o Continuous improvement methods (e.g., earned Lean Green Belt)

o Project management best practices

• Lack of post-secondary education will not be used as the sole basis denying consideration to any applicant.

The State of Missouri offers an excellent benefits package that includes a defined pension plan, generous amounts of leave and holiday time, and eligibility for health insurance coverage. Your total compensation is more than the dollars you receive in your paycheck. To help demonstrate the value of working for the State of Missouri, we have created an interactive Total Compensation Calculator. This tool provides a comprehensive view of benefits and more that are offered to prospective employees. The Total Compensation Calculator and other applicant resources can be found here .

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