Title: VCC Product Owner

State Role Title: Info Tech Spec III

Hiring Range: $102,152-$122,000

Pay Band: 6

Agency: Dept Behavioral Health/Develop

Location: Dept Behav Hlth & Develop Svcs

Agency Website: www.dbhds.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) is seeking an experienced professional to serve as a Virginia Crisis Connect (VCC) Product Owner. This newly created position will provide strategic direction, functional governance, and oversight for the VCC platform. This position serves as the primary liaison among the Office of Crisis Services, Information Technology, system partners, and business stakeholders to ensure the platform supports agency operations, reliable data, compliance requirements, and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities include:
• Serving as the final business authority for VCC business processes, functional priorities, and data definitions in alignment with leadership direction and enterprise IT governance.
• Defining and maintaining the VCC product roadmap; prioritizing enhancements, configuration changes, defect remediation, patches, and upgrades based on business value, compliance, risk, audit findings, budget constraints, and user feedback.
• Leading business-readiness and approval activities for system updates and functional changes, including impact assessments, validation of process impacts, organizational change management, and go/no-go recommendations.
• Leading the annual Business Impact Analysis in coordination with agency security, VITA, continuity, and enterprise stakeholders, document critical processes, dependencies, recovery objectives, and operational and compliance risks.
• Serving as a business data owner or steward for VCC data domains; resolving data-definition and reporting conflicts and promoting consistent, secure, auditable data use.
• Developing and maintaining business process guides, standardizing operating procedures, job aids, and training materials that reflect approved system configurations, internal controls, policy changes, and audit findings.
• Establishing and leading a quarterly user group representing central office and providers; maintaining transparent feedback and decision logs, and translating feedback into prioritized system, process, communication, or training improvements.
• Supporting Change Advisory Board activities, internal and external audits, documentation and traceability expectations, and remediation of identified risks or findings.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience in product ownership, business analysis, or system implementation.
• Experience working with complex data systems or enterprise applications.
• Experience translating business processes and stakeholder needs into clear system requirements and priorities.
• Experience developing and maintaining business process documentation and supporting system governance.
• Knowledge of product ownership and project management, business continuity planning, data governance, data stewardship, and risk-based prioritization.
• Demonstrated skill in stakeholder facilitation, cross-functional leadership, business process analysis, and written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to balance compliance, risk, operational needs, and competing priorities in a complex enterprise environment and communicate system impacts to executive leadership.

Additional Considerations

• Experience working in or with public-sector organizations.
• Experience with crisis services, quality systems, or case management systems.
• Experience in a government or public-sector environment.
• Experience with Agile delivery or product lifecycle management.

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 is eligible, however not guaranteed, for telework opportunities; availability, hours, and duration of telework shall be approved as outlined in the Commonwealth telework policy.

For consideration, interested applicants must apply by completing the online application and/or submit a resume. However, emailed, faxed, and hand-delivered applications and/or resumes will not be accepted. Applications must be submitted by 11:55 p.m., on the listed closing date. Reasonable accommodations are available to persons with disabilities during application and/or interview processes per the Americans with Disabilities Act.

DBHDS welcomes all applicants authorized to work in the U.S. For more information on how to seek this authorization, please refer to Working in the United States or contact the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office directly.

For any technical assistance with the jobs.virginia.gov website, please contact applicantinquiry@dhrm.virginia.gov.

Contact Information

Name: ShaKiera Miles

Phone: N/A

Email: shakiera.miles@dbhds.virginia.gov - Inquiries Only/No Submissions, to include resumes.

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.