Community Health Consultant V

Guides, plans, and organizes the market-wide delivery of short and long range community initiatives and focus areas, ensuring alignment with community health priorities and organizational goals. Provides advanced knowledge into the development and implementation of community health strategic plans. Partners with key stakeholders including non-profits, for profits, elected officials, public agencies, and other key community and internal stakeholders to engage in strategic community health work. Guides communication of KPs position and commitment to community health to internal and external audiences. Leads community health grantmaking and investments by recommending complex, innovative charitable contribution strategies in alignment with other community health priorities. Provides guidance to ensure programs and activities are in compliance with legislative, regulatory, and KP policies. Conducts market-wide portfolio assessment, budget analysis, and preparation of community health spending plans.

• Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross-functional stakeholders. Listens, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members. Practices self-leadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit. Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Models team collaboration within and across teams.


• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies. Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals. Recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; evaluates recommendations made; influences the completion of project tasks by others.


• Guides budgeting and financial planning by: managing community health operations, grantmaking, and budgets for individual initiatives and overall portfolio ensuring that community health objectives are attained and within approved budget parameters; conducting market-wide portfolio assessment, budget analysis, and preparation of community health spending plans; and aligning and monitoring community health funded programs with community health strategy and reviewing, developing, and advancing business cases affecting broad organizational objectives.


• Leads community health grantmaking and investments by: managing administration of and presenting at market charitable contributions committee meetings, training, and orienting committee members; interpreting multiple sources of data and information to develop a comprehensive understanding of how data, evidence, and lessons learned inform upcoming strategy design; serving as an expert resource regarding charitable contributions programs/initiatives, including investments, in-kind, and business operational assets, and providing consultation, technical assistance, and leading training sessions as needed; coordinating the development and implementation of program evaluations of current grantmaking to ensure and assess of the impact of KPs charitable contribution strategy and working with expert evaluation consultants, including managing contracts, developing scope of work, and co-designing program evaluations; exercising independent judgment and discretion in all aspects of developing grants, including scoping, inviting, analyzing, developing recommendations, presenting to committees; and recommending complex, innovative charitable contribution strategies in alignment with other community health priorities.


• Creates communication strategies by: leading communications between KP and management in community agencies regarding health programs; guiding communication of KPs position and commitment to community health to internal and external audiences; guiding identification of corporate marketing, community relations outreach, and promoting media opportunities to increase visibility of community health portfolio and programs; creating and executing regular communication with internal and external stakeholders through regular reports and presentations as needed to communicate and integrate the impact of community and social health initiatives; guiding the development of communications to update programs, related stories, factsheets, press releases, and news articles; representing KP by initiating collaboratives, working groups, advisory boards, committees, panels, conferences, and planning groups; and educating and influencing community leaders by promoting KPs value and commitment to communities served.


• Leads community health program management by: leading community health programs in KPs Community Health Program, including assessing outcomes planning, design, and operations of initiatives that address community wellbeing and developing outcomes; guiding efforts to ensure that all community health programs and activities meet the needs of KPs diverse communities; assisting with development and managing implementation of community health strategies and programs across the market, including philanthropy, in-kind, and/or community health improvement programs at the local and/or market level; guiding, planning, and organizing the market-wide delivery of short and long range community initiatives and focus areas, ensuring alignment with community health priorities and organizational goals; and designing, developing, and implementing programs that measurably improve community health and support the organizations tax-exempt status.


• Guides regulatory compliance by: providing guidance to ensure programs and activities are in compliance with legislative, regulatory and KP policies; and reviewing and synthesizing information to support all regulatory, governmental, and KP reporting requirements, and ensuring accuracy and facilitating report writing and submission of all regulatory reports.


• Leverages organizational resources by: utilizing advanced knowledge in leveraging in-kind resources from KP, including technical expertise, programs managed by KP, and operational assets (e.g., hiring, investments, purchasing) to connect to, support, and improve the health of KP communities and organizations and identifying strategies to engage in bi-directional learning from stakeholders.


• Builds stakeholder relationships by: partnering with key community leaders including non-profits, for profits, elected officials, public agencies, and other key community and internal stakeholders to engage in strategic community health work; engaging market and program office leadership and other key internal and external stakeholders to lead execution of community health strategies; fostering collaborations with community health partners to leverage existing and build new relationships with community organizations to advance KPs mission; guiding work groups involving members of different departments to build and foster partnerships between health plan, care delivery, and community organizations that serve identified populations; and building collaborative partnerships with philanthropic, policy, public health, and academic organizations to advance shared missions.


• Leads strategic planning by: providing advanced knowledge into the development and implementation community health strategic plans; providing advanced knowledge on planning, and implementing national and market community health programs, projects, and initiatives; guiding the strategic development and implementation of a market wide integrated community health plan which supports the organizations strategic imperatives and ensures alignment to local medical service area needs; and supporting market and national teams and Communities of Practice to develop, implement, and guide innovative approaches to population health improvement.

Qualifications:

• Minimum three (3) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.


• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university AND minimum eight (8) years of experience in government, public health, health services, economic development, community/social/human services, or a related field OR Minimum eleven (11) years of experience in government, public health, health services, economic development, community/social/human services, or a related field.

• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Written Communication; Compliance Management; Health Care Compliance; Health Care Policy; Financial Acumen; Financial Plan Budgeting; Community Health; Company Representation; Interpersonal Skills; Managing Diverse Relationships; Relationship Building; Stakeholder Management; Project Management; Community Engagement; Computer Literacy; Microsoft Office; Presentation Skills; Applied Data Analysis