National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives ยท 15 hours ago
Consultant III
The National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives is seeking a Consultant III to be part of a consulting team focused on driving successful business initiatives and projects. The role involves managing projects, supporting strategic planning, and ensuring stakeholder alignment while providing insights for business process improvements.
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Responsibilities
Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members. Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome
Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives. Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team
Serves as part of a consultant team to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse stakeholders to drive the implementation of successful business initiatives and projects within a functional track or workstream 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; identifying and escalating tough stakeholder issues while maintaining an independent perspective; preparing presentations and reports; and leading or facilitating team meetings
Develops requirements for 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; and developing and documenting comprehensive business cases to assess the costs, benefits, and ROI of proposed solutions
Provides insight and supports the development and implementation of business initiatives, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state by maintaining a working understanding of how current processes impact business operations; 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; and identifying and validating value gaps and opportunities for process enhancements or efficiencies
Supports strategic planning and 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; and managing assigned initiatives 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; and serving as an advocate to ensure continuous learning and improvement is championed as a people strategy
Manages moderately 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 change management activities associated with business initiatives by engaging stakeholders to obtain support and buy in for changes; collaborating with management, project champions, and business owners to communicate and align improvement initiatives with business objectives; using appropriate change management methods and approaches; and ensuring stakeholders embrace a change management mindset, and understand initiative intent and purpose
Performs data analyses to support business initiatives by using appropriate data analysis tools and approach to assess business performance; deploying 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; and partnering with Procurement and/or Legal to assist in the development of 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
Qualification
Required
Serves as part of a consulting team 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
Supports strategic planning and organizational alignment and prioritization of business initiatives
Manages moderately complex projects or project components
Participates in change management activities
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
Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members
Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members
Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses
Influences others through technical explanations and examples
Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work
Helps others adapt to new tasks and processes
Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions
Ensures all procedures and policies are followed
Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems
Escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information
Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations
Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team
Develops requirements for business, process, or system solutions within assigned business domain(s)
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
Maintaining a working understanding of how current processes impact business operations
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
Identifying and validating value gaps and opportunities for process enhancements or efficiencies
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
Managing assigned initiatives to ensure delivery of measurable results and alignment with strategic objectives
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
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
Resolving or escalating risks or issues as appropriate
Engaging stakeholders to obtain support and buy in for changes
Collaborating with management, project champions, and business owners to communicate and align improvement initiatives with business objectives
Using appropriate change management methods and approaches
Ensuring stakeholders embrace a change management mindset, and understand initiative intent and purpose
Using appropriate data analysis tools and approach to assess business performance
Deploying 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
Identifying and alleviating risks through data-driven analysis
Assisting with reviews of vendor performance levels
Ensuring service level agreements are met
Partnering with Procurement and/or Legal to assist in the development of service level and/or scope of work agreements as appropriate
Company
National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives
The National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives is a hospital and healthcare organization.