Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Leavitt Partners is a healthcare consulting firm. The Senior Consultant supports healthcare organizations through research, policy analysis, strategic planning, program development, quality improvement, reimbursement strategies, evaluation, and related consulting services. The role manages client projects, leads teams, supports business development, and delivers high-quality recommendations and project outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Meets with clients and colleagues to understand requirements
- Gathers and organizes information about the issue to be solved or the procedure to be improved
- Analyzes data to identify and understand issues to be addressed
- Presents findings to internal colleagues, and clients
- Provides advice, implementation plans, and/or suggestions for improvement, according to project objectives
- Evaluates client needs, as warranted, and adjusts as appropriate
- Ensures that all deliverables are high-quality in all aspects (content, grammar, presentation, etc.)
- Serves as a subject matter expert on projects
- Undertakes internal and external short-term and/or long-term project management to address identified issues and needs
- Develops and documents tools, analysis, frameworks, tracking tools, road maps, dashboards, and/or other approaches to manage a variety of large and small projects
- Supports firm business development activities to expand funded work from existing clients and/or new clients
- Develops and maintains a pipeline of future work
- Participates in competitive and/or non-competitive proposal development and submission
- Leads and manages teams, provides developmental feedback, and advances internal initiatives
- Serves as a mentor for other staff members, as requested
- Ensures performance meets or exceeds HMA expectations in the following areas:
- Billable hour target attainment
- Manages to budget/project caps established at the outset or assists in negotiating additional fees
- Meets quality and operational standards
- Participates in internal activities related to business strategies, forecasts, adoption of new technologies/platforms/approaches, and other process improvements
- Completes administrative requirements of the role in a punctual manner, including training, reporting, timesheets, expense reports, forecasting, and all other time-sensitive administrative duties
- All other duties as assigned
Skills
- This role requires frequent travel to client sites and HMA offices
- Minimum of a bachelor's degree in business management, public health, or a related discipline is required
- Equivalent work experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree, although not desired, may be determined as acceptable
- Minimum of 5 years of progressively increasing prior experience in work involving publicly funded healthcare including, but not limited to policy, administration, operations, compliance, research, consulting, or evaluation
- Strong project management skills
- Solid time management skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to multi-task and adhere to strict deadlines
- Capable of handling confidential information in a discreet manner
- Ability to work extended hours when deadlines are approaching
- Excellent internal and excellent professional networking skills
- Excellent critical thinking skills
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills
- Superior interpersonal skills, including leadership, contribution to culture, and acceptance of accountability
- Demonstrated thought leadership and deep expertise in more than one critical healthcare area
- Ability to maintain an approach to stay current in trends in areas of subject matter expertise
- A master's degree in a related discipline is strongly preferred
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