Consultant IV - Equity, Inclusion, & Diversity

Kaiser Permanente
Panorama, CA Other
POSTED ON 12/22/2022 CLOSED ON 5/30/2023

Job Posting for Consultant IV - Equity, Inclusion, & Diversity at Kaiser Permanente

Job Summary:

Serves as a consultant to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse stakeholders to drive the implementation of successful business initiatives and projects. Provides insight and supports the development and implementation of business initiatives, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state. Contributes to business strategy and supports organizational alignment and prioritization of business initiatives. Manages complex projects or project components, participates in and may lead change management activities, and performs data analyses in support of business initiatives. Supports vendor management as required. Monitors compliance of work activities by ensuring business plans and team members adhere to relevant policies and procedures.

Essential Responsibilities:


  • Promotes learning in others by proactively providing and/or developing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members; builds relationships with cross-functional/external stakeholders and customers. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; proactively provides actionable feedback to others and to managers. Pursues self-development; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; leads by influencing others through technical explanations and examples and provides options and recommendations. Adopts new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; champions change and helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Facilitates team collaboration to support a business outcome.

  • Completes work assignments autonomously and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area and business knowledge to generate creative solutions; encourages team members to adapt to and follow all procedures and policies. Collaborates cross-functionally and/or externally to achieve effective business decisions; provides recommendations and solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Supports the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; identifies resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines. Identifies, speaks up, and capitalizes on improvement opportunities across teams; uses influence to guide others and engages stakeholders to achieve appropriate solutions.

  • Serves as a consultant to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse stakeholders to drive the implementation of successful business initiatives and projects across one or more functional tracks or workstreams by identifying and ensuring representation and inclusion of appropriate stakeholders; building rapport and partnerships with stakeholder teams, third party vendors, and senior management; working with stakeholders to develop goals and set the prioritization of deliverables; discussing involvement of business processes (e.g. project change management, communication) and facilitating decisions necessary for the delivery of business initiatives; communicating tough issues to stakeholders while maintaining an independent perspective; and making formal presentations and providing reports to various senior level audiences.

  • Develops requirements for complex business, process, or system solutions within assigned business domain(s) by interfacing stakeholders and cross-functional teams as appropriate; leveraging multiple business requirements gathering methodologies to identify business, functional, and non-functional requirements; developing and documenting comprehensive business cases to assess the costs, benefits, and ROI of proposed solutions; and leading team members in the development process as appropriate.

  • Provides insight and supports the development and implementation of business initiatives, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state by maintaining a comprehensive understanding of how current processes impact business operations across multiple domains; mapping current state against future state processes; identifying the operational impact of requirements on upstream and downstream solution components; providing options and recommendations to management and business stakeholders on how to integrate solutions and deliverables with current systems and business processes across regions or domains; and identifying and validating value gaps and opportunities for process enhancements or efficiencies.

  • Contributes to business strategy and supports organizational alignment and prioritization of business initiatives by defining, developing, and evaluating performance metrics, standards, and methods to establish business success; collaborating with multiple stakeholders, often with competing/conflicting objectives, to ensure cohesive and reachable metrics; refining strategic plans and performance metrics as appropriate; and managing assigned initiatives or portfolio to ensure delivery of measurable results and alignment with strategic objectives.

  • Serves as a advocate of continuous learning and professional development by keeping abreast of industry practices, standards, and benchmarks; attending and participating in roadshows, conferences, and speaking events; contributing to the ongoing enhancement and innovation of 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 projects or project components by coordinating stakeholder contacts; recommending or assigning team resources based on project needs and team member strengths; consulting in the development, analysis, and management of project plans; coordinating project schedules and resource forecasts; proactively monitoring and identifying project or business initiative risks, issues, and trigger events; developing mitigation plans and strategies; and resolving or escalating risks or issues as appropriate.

  • Participates in and may lead change management activities associated with business initiatives by engaging stakeholders to obtain support and buy in for changes; partnering with management, project champions, and business owners to communicate and align improvement initiatives with business objectives; identifying appropriate change management method and approach; and ensuring stakeholders embrace a change management mindset, understand intent and purpose, and foster a culture of change.

  • Performs data analyses to support business initiatives by identifying appropriate data analysis tools and approach to assess business performance; 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 analyses and performing experimental tests to evaluate the effectiveness of business solutions; and identifying and alleviating risks through data-driven analysis.

  • Supports vendor management as required by assisting with reviews of vendor performance levels; ensuring service level agreements are met; managing vendor invoices; and partnering with Procurement and/or Legal to develop service level and/or scope of work agreements as appropriate.

  • Monitors compliance of work activities by ensuring business plans and team members adhere to KP, departmental, and/or business line policies and procedures.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:



  • Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university and Minimum five (5) years experience in consulting, project management, data analytics, operations or a directly related field OR Masters degree in Business, Public Health, or a directly related field and Minimum three (3) years experience in consulting, project management, data analytics, operations or a directly related field OR Minimum eight (8) years experience in consulting, project management, data analytics, operations or a directly related field.



 


Preferred Qualifications:



  • Two (2) years experience developing and delivering executive communications.

  • Two (2) years experience in human centered design.

  • Two (2) years working directly with physicians.

  • Three (3) years experience implementing modern equity, inclusion, and diversity (EID) concepts and best practices.

  • Two (2) years experience working with advanced Excel functions including, formulas, pivot tables, vlookup, macros, etc.

  • Two (2) years experience delivering presentations to management.

  • Two (2) years experience working in a matrixed organization.

  • Two (2) years experience deliverying training programs.

  • Two (2) years experience in process improvement.

  • Two (2) years experience in change management.

  • Two (2) years project management experience.

  • Two (2) years facilitating meetings with work teams or management.

  • Two (2) years experience working within a labor management partnership.

  • Two (2) years experience implementing large or complex projects.

  • Masters degree in Business, Public Health, or related field.


Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Advisor
Capital Group -
Los Angeles, CA
Executive, Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Creative Artists Agency -
Los Angeles, CA
Junior Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Associate
L'Oreal USA, Inc -
El Segundo, CA

Popular Search Topics

Hourly Wage Estimation for Consultant IV - Equity, Inclusion, & Diversity in Panorama, CA
$76.37 to $103.50
If your compensation planning software is too rigid to deploy winning incentive strategies, it’s time to find an adaptable solution. Compensation Planning
View Core, Job Family, and Industry Job Skills and Competency Data for more than 15,000 Job Titles Skills Library

Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs with skills like those required for the Consultant IV - Equity, Inclusion, & Diversity.

Click the checkbox next to the jobs that you are interested in.

  • SAP Asap Methodology Skill

    • Income Estimation: $148,807 - $197,435
  • Business Analytics Skill

    • Income Estimation: $115,245 - $158,166
    • Income Estimation: $113,660 - $155,970
This job has expired.

Job openings at Kaiser Permanente

Kaiser Permanente
Hired Organization Address Mc Lean, VA Other
Job Summary: Assists surgical team by preparing instruments and equipment needed for scheduled procedures. Assists surge...
Kaiser Permanente
Hired Organization Address Walnut Creek, CA Other
Technical Summary: Candidate will use their prior EMR implementation or support experience to Lead the Team. Epic EHR ex...
Kaiser Permanente
Hired Organization Address Clackamas, OR Other
Job Summary: The Nursing Professional Development Consultant is a registered nurse with expertise in nursing education w...
Kaiser Permanente
Hired Organization Address Clackamas, OR Other
Job Summary: The Nursing Professional Development Consultant is a registered nurse with expertise in nursing education w...

Not the job you're looking for? Here are some other Consultant IV - Equity, Inclusion, & Diversity jobs in the Panorama, CA area that may be a better fit.

Manager Of Diversity, Equity And Inclusion

O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, CA

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Specialist

Harvard-Westlake School, Studio, CA