Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Leavitt Partners is a consulting firm specializing in healthcare-related services. The Senior Consultant is responsible for client management, project management, and business development, ensuring high-quality deliverables and supporting the firm's growth initiatives.
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
- Minimum of a bachelor's degree in business management, public health, or a related discipline is required
- 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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