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Tennessee Department of Health · 3 weeks ago

Rural Health Transformation Coordinating Director

Tennessee, United States

Contract

Onsite

Director/Executive

The Tennessee Department of Health is seeking a Rural Health Transformation Coordinating Director to lead the strategic coordination of Tennessee’s 5-year, $1 billion Rural Health Transformation Program. This role involves managing engagement across state agencies, facilitating decision-making for leadership, and ensuring effective communication and documentation throughout the program.

Wellness

Responsibilities

Drive strategic alignment within and between state agencies across RHTF’s 17 initiatives involving 40+ budget programs:

Co-lead governance, reporting, communication, and alignment efforts across the RHTP program

Provide day-to-day support for RHTP initiative leaders, triage inquiries to appropriate parties, provide technical assistance, and assist initiatives in proactively addressing barriers

Champion interagency coordination and collaboration between Tennessee Department of Health (TDH), TennCare, Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, County Health Councils, and other state partners to ensure alignment of funding, policy, and implementation activities

Direct operations of the RHTP Governance Committee, ensuring standing meeting times/schedules, robust agendas, relevant speakers and materials (including background materials), shared expectations (decisional/pre-decisional, for awareness/for discussion), and ensuring appropriate follow up

Conduct site visits alongside OSI and other TDH leadership to monitor implementation, strengthen partnerships, and identify and address programmatic opportunities, challenges, and concerns

Enable effective decision-making for leadership:

Coordinate with the RHTP Evaluation Lead to analyze, synthesize, and present process, outcome, and impact data to inform RHTP leadership within TDH and the Governance Committee, other state agencies, and partners

Identify coordination challenges and proactively recommend process improvements

Serve as the chief liaison for the RHTP ecosystem, exhibiting breadth and depth of knowledge and personal/organizational relationships, and acting as a resource for decision-makers across the state

Ensure clear communication and documentation across the program:

Prepare and/or oversee the development of policy briefings, progress summaries, and compliance documentation for internal and external stakeholders in support of the Deputy Commissioner

Lead the design and execution of communication strategies and materials– including briefings, performance summaries, and progress reports– for the public, legislative, federal, and other audiences

Coordinate presentations of program data, outcomes, lessons, and challenges for leadership and other diverse audiences that effectively “tells the story.”

Lead knowledge management activities of the RHTF Governance Committee, including maintaining and distributing meeting minutes, action logs, and follow-up reports to ensure accountability and continuity

Ensure establishment, upkeep, and use of a central repository of governance documents, reports, and performance materials to support transparency and audit readiness