Transportation Assistant Division Director - Kanawha Co.

State of West Virginia; West Virginia; On-site; USD 85,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

State of West Virginia, through the West Virginia Department of Transportation, seeks an Assistant Division Director for the Information Technology Division. The role leads the division, reports to the Division Director, and guides high-impact projects.

You will supervise staff, shape administrative strategy, and partner across the agency to deliver reliable technology solutions. The position requires navigating complex regulatory requirements and developing budgets, procedures, and policies.

Qualifications

• Seven (7) years of full-time or equivalent part-time paid administrative or supervisory experience in accounting, budgeting, business operations, personnel, purchasing or technology.
• Graduate coursework may substitute for up to two years of experience.
• Travel may be required; a valid driver’s license is required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the Information Technology Division as Assistant Division Director.
• Lead strategic planning and manage high-impact IT projects.
• Supervise staff across the division and coordinate with agency teams to deliver reliable technology solutions.

Education

Bachelor’s degree from regionally accredited college or university

Job description

**Disclaimer-this position will be considered classified-exempt and “at will.”

As the Assistant Division Director for the Information Technology Division at the West Virginia Department of Transportation, you will help lead the Division and report directly to the Division Director. In this role, you will manage high-impact projects, supervise staff, drive administrative strategy, and partner closely with teams across the agency to deliver reliable technology solutions. This position performs administrative work at the advanced level, managing an organizational section providing administrative and support services in a division where operations, policy, work processes, and regulatory requirements of the section are complex, varied, and dynamic. Work requires substantial depth of analysis and interpretation of theory, principles, practices, and regulations of a professional or administrative field. Duties involve the supervision of managerial, professional, technical and clerical employees. The scope of responsibility includes planning the operations and procedures of the unit; directing the work of employees; developing employees; evaluating unit operations; developing budget needs; researching new procedures and improvements; interpreting statutes, regulations, and policies. Direction at this level is over a larger more complex division with professional, technical and clerical employees. This position is granted the latitude to develop new methods and policies to improve overall organizational effectiveness. Complexity involves varied duties and many different and unrelated processes and methods are applied to a broad range of activities or substantial depth of analysis, typically for an administrative or professional field. Performs related work as required.

Note: More technical divisions will not have a training/education substitution.

**Preference may be given to Candidates with these qualifications**

TRAINING/EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university.
• Substitution: Experience, as described below, may be substituted for the training/education requirement through an established formula.

EXPERIENCE

• Seven (7) years of full-time or equivalent part-time paid administrative or supervisory experience in accounting, budgeting, business operations, personnel, purchasing or technology.
• Substitution: Successful completion of graduate coursework from a regionally accredited college or university may be substituted for up to two (2) years of the required experience through an established formula.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT

• Travel may be required, therefore; a valid driver’s license is required.

• Candidate Contact Name: Lena Shavers
• Phone Number:304-414-6816
• Email Address: [e-mail]