Description

Job Summary:

Serves as expert consultant to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse stakeholders to drive successful initiatives and projects within clinical settings across multiple technical areas or complex workstreams. Provides expertise and drives the development and implementation of complex clinical initiatives, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state. Serves as lead expert in the development of clinical or care delivery strategy and ensures organizational alignment and prioritization of clinical initiatives by developing and determining goals and priorities with management team sponsors; defining, developing, and evaluating performance metrics. Manages complex, highly visible projects or project components, leads large and complex change management activities, and leads, partners with analysts, and consults with team members in performing complex data analyses to drive care delivery or clinical initiatives. Participates in vendor management as required. Monitors compliance of work activities by ensuring project plans and team members adhere to relevant policies and procedures.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influences, mentors, and coaches team members. Practices self-leadership; creates, evaluates, and responds to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit or team members. Leads the adaptation to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members.
• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying member and operational needs; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; develops and updates new procedures and policies. Gains cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves highly complex issues; escalates and resolves issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures progress. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates, obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences the completion of project tasks by others.
• Serves as an expert consultant to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse stakeholders to drive successful initiatives and projects within care delivery or clinical settings across multiple technical areas or complex workstreams by making significant contributions and/or providing leadership to high visibility projects to identify and resolve issues of strategic importance to the organization; identifying and ensuring representation and inclusion of appropriate stakeholders and team members; building rapport and partnerships with stakeholder teams, third party vendors, and executive management to produce results that are outcome driven; working with stakeholders to set the strategic direction of initiatives, develop goals and set the prioritization of deliverables; discussing involvement of key processes (e.g. quality management, project change management, communication) and facilitating decisions necessary for the delivery of initiatives; communicating and resolving tough issues with stakeholders while maintaining an independent perspective; providing expertise and recommendations; developing written materials for senior executives and other key clients; and making formal presentations and providing reports to executive level audiences.
• Develops requirements, or leads a team of consultants in the development of requirements, for complex or specialized clinical, process, or system solutions across one or more technical area(s) by leveraging partnerships with key stakeholders and cross-functional teams as appropriate; leveraging multiple requirements gathering methodologies to identify clinical, functional, and non-functional requirements; leading and overseeing the development and documentation of comprehensive case studies to assess the costs, benefits, and ROI of proposed solutions; collaborating in the development of results-driven action plans; and leading team members in the development process as appropriate.
• Provides expertise and drives the development and implementation of complex clinical initiatives, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state by maintaining a comprehensive understanding of how current processes impact clinical operations across multiple technical areas; mapping current state against future state processes; identifying the operational impact of requirements on upstream and downstream solution components; providing options and recommendations to executive management and clinical stakeholders on how to integrate solutions and deliverables with current systems and processes across regions or technical areas; and leading the identification and validation of value gaps and opportunities for process enhancements or efficiencies.
• Serves as a lead expert in the development of clinical or care delivery strategy and ensures organizational alignment and prioritization of clinical initiatives by developing and determining goals and priorities with management team sponsors; defining, developing, and evaluating performance metrics, standards, and methods to establish success; partnering with senior stakeholders, often with competing/conflicting objectives, to ensure cohesive and reachable metrics; refining strategic plans and performance metrics as appropriate; and managing a portfolio of diverse and complex initiatives to ensure delivery of measurable results and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Serves as a lead advocate of continuous learning and professional development by keeping abreast of cutting edge industry practices, standards, and benchmarks; attending and presenting at roadshows, conferences, and speaking events; leading the ongoing enhancement and innovation of clinical consulting practices, standards, and methods across KP; serving as an advocate to ensure continuous learning and improvement is championed as a people strategy; providing training and guidance to stakeholders as appropriate; and providing ongoing coaching to build a continuous improvement mindset and build capabilities that drive results.
• Manages complex, highly visible projects or project components by coordinating and partnering with clinical leadership and key stakeholders; assembling teams based on project needs and team member strengths; consulting in the development, analysis, and management of project plans, including proposed project structure, approach and work plan; negotiating time commitments and resources; coordinating project schedules and resource forecasts; proactively monitoring and identifying project or clinical initiative risks, issues, and trigger events; developing mitigation plans and strategies; resolving or escalating risks or issues as appropriate; and providing leadership to project teams, as well as managing the work of outside consultants when needed.
• Leads large and complex change management activities associated with care delivery or clinical initiatives by engaging stakeholders to obtain support and buy in for changes; partnering with executive management, project champions, and clinical owners to communicate and align improvement initiatives with strategic objectives; determining appropriate change management method and approach; and ensuring stakeholders embrace a change management mindset, understand intent and purpose, and foster a culture of change.
• Leads, partners with analysts, and consults team members in performing complex data analyses to drive care delivery or clinical initiatives by recommending appropriate data analysis tools and approach to assess performance; designing analytic plans and determining suitable data gathering and analysis methods (e.g., process observation, hard data, etc.); defining data requirements and obtaining customer agreements, including customer requirements as appropriate; conducting advanced analyses and performing experimental tests to evaluate the effectiveness of clinical solutions; identifying and alleviating risks through data-driven analysis; and preparing and sharing data/analysis summaries and incorporating into action plans as appropriate.
• Participates in vendor management as required by reviewing vendor performance levels; ensuring service level agreements are met; managing vendor invoices; and partnering with Procurement, Legal, and/or clinical leadership teams to develop service level and/or scope of work agreements as appropriate.
• Monitors compliance of work activities by ensuring project plans and team members adhere to KP, departmental, and/or clinical policies and procedures.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum four (4) years experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Bachelors degree in Nursing, Health Care, Public Administration, Public Health, Statistics, Science or a directly related field and minimum ten (10) years progressive experience in consulting, data analytics, or project management in clinical operations or a health care environment OR Masters degree in Nursing, Health Care, Public Administration, Public Health or a directly related field and minimum eight (8) years progressive experience in consulting, data analytics, or project management in clinical operations or a health care environment, or a directly related field OR Minimum thirteen (13) years progressive experience in consulting, data analytics, or project management in clinical operations or a health care environment, or a directly related field.

Additional Requirements:

• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Business Acumen; Change Management; Negotiation; Business Process Improvement; Creativity; Applied Data Analysis; Financial Acumen; Business Relationship Management; Conflict Resolution; Consulting; Managing Diverse Relationships; Process Validation; Project Management; Risk Assessment; Service Focus; Requirements Elicitation & Analysis

Preferred Qualifications:

• Four (4) years experience managing vendor contracts and relationships.
• Four (4) years business case experience.

Primary Location: Georgia,Atlanta,Regional Office - 9 Piedmont
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
Working Hours End: 05:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard Worker Location: Onsite
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-GA-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Department: Regional Office - 9 Piedmont - Medical Office Administration - 2808
Pay Range: $150900 - $195250 / year Kaiser Permanente is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not include the value of our total rewards package. Actual pay determined at offer will be based on years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills and geographic location along with a review of current employees in similar roles to ensure that pay equity is achieved and maintained across Kaiser Permanente. Travel: Yes, 50 % of the Time On-site: Work location is on-site (KP designated office, medical office building or hospital). Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
Requisition #: 1384869

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