What are the responsibilities and job description for the Administrative Program Manager - Program Integrity position at King County Housing Authority?
This position is open until filled; however, to ensure consideration applications should be submitted by November 10, 2025 at 4:30 p.m.
KCHA has an exceptional opportunity for a skilled professional to join the Compliance & Policy Department as an Administrative Program Manager for Program Integrity.
Reporting to a senior member of the Compliance & Policy Department, this position focuses on Program Integrity. This role is dedicated to improving program integrity, regulatory compliance, and operational effectiveness primarily across the housing authority’s federal programs. The role develops and implements audit and monitoring frameworks, collaborates with internal stakeholders, and drives strategic improvements based on data-driven insights.
King County Housing Authority (KCHA), an independent municipal organization, is a high performing nationally recognized leader in affordable housing. To learn more about KCHA and our Mission visit this link.
We transform lives through housing.
The Administrative Program Manager for Program Integrity will:
- Lead initiatives to strengthen the agency’s compliance culture and promote continuous improvement.
- Design and implement program audits, reviews, and monitoring plans.
- Analyze findings and performance data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Collaborate with staff at all levels to identify and recommend corrective actions and process enhancements and to ensure alignment with federal, state, and local regulations.
- Develop and present reports to teams and senior leadership, highlighting compliance status, trends, risks, and strategic recommendations.
- Effectively develop and manage multiple concurrent projects and the team’s portfolio of projects; may oversee the work of staff assigned to projects.
- Serve as a technical resource for other staff, answers questions and provides advice on interpreting and applying applicable regulations, policies, and procedures.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Public Administration, Business, or related field AND
- Considerable experience in compliance, auditing, or program evaluation, preferably in subsidized housing OR
- An equivalent combination of experience and education that provides the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the essential functions of this position.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement audit, monitoring, and review frameworks.
- Proficiency in interpreting complex and varied information sources to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for operational improvement.
- Ability to analyze, interpret, explain, and apply complex regulations and other requirements affecting KCHA’s federally subsidized housing programs.
- Ability to manage multiple, concurrent compliance projects, drive process improvements, and lead change management initiatives within a complex organizational environment.
- Competency in facilitation, process improvement, data analysis, communications, strategic thinking, relationship building, conflict management, project management, performance management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to convey complex compliance and policy issues in a clear, concise, and actionable manner.
- Proven ability to meet deadlines and performance standards.
- Proven ability to translate agency mission to day-to-day activities.
Special Requirements:
- Consent to and pass a criminal records background check.
To be considered for this opportunity, you must:
- Complete the online application profile in its entirety.
- Upload a cover letter that addresses how your experience and education qualifies you to perform the essential functions listed in the job announcement. (Cover Letter)
- Upload a detailed résumé of all educational and professional experience. (Résumé)
Salary & Benefits:
The starting salary range for this position is $99,905.00 - $122,382.00 annually dependent on qualifications and professional experience. The complete salary range for this position is $99,905.00 - $144,861.04 annually. Performance based merit increase opportunities and COLAs are reviewed on an annual basis. A comprehensive health care benefits package for you and your dependents includes medical, dental and vision insurance, life and long-term disability insurance plans, vacation, sick and personal leave, tuition reimbursement, and retirement benefits are also available. For more details regarding KCHA comprehensive benefits, please visit our benefits page, www.kcha.org/employment/employeebenefits.aspx.
Work Environment:
After initial onboarding, this role will have the opportunity to work remotely up to 60% in accordance with the KCHA's flexible work arrangements; however, remote work conditions will be reviewed on a regular basis based on business and program need. The ability to report to the Central Office in Tukwila will still be required on occasion. Some local travel may be required to support KCHA business needs.
Physical Requirements
This work is sedentary and requires little to no exertion of force; work regularly requires sitting and using hands to finger, handle or feel, frequently requires repetitive motions and occasionally requires standing and speaking or hearing; work has standard vision requirements; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data; work has no exposure to environmental conditions; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic).
Equal Opportunity:
King County Housing Authority is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
Salary : $99,905 - $122,382
