Careers in Quality

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Senior Consultant, CMI Evidence Services

Oakland, California

Remote Position within Kaiser service areas: Open to California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Virginia, and DC areas.

Kaiser Permanente’s Care Management Institute, Evidence Services group is part of KP’s national clinical knowledge management team, which aims to rapidly translate emerging research into practice and make the right thing easy to do for clinicians. Evidence Services provides high-level evidence-based methodology and statistical expertise, project management, and consensus building to develop clinical practice guidelines and advise on national quality initiatives. Working with senior clinical leaders to build consensus across the enterprise, Evidence Services produces clinical practice guidelines and pathways and creates customized analyses that describe the rigor of available research. Knowledge products are developed using systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and critical appraisal of research and rapidly translated into actionable tools for clinical users.

This position demonstrates in-depth practice, knowledge and skills, manages evaluation projects, and is accountable for the successful execution of project goals and analytical deliverables. At the highest level of the job family, shares in accountability of outcomes and performance for all regions and the enterprise in oversight areas and demonstrate in-depth practice, knowledge, and skills, manage projects and programs, and are accountable for the successful execution of goals that are aligned with the goals of CMI in promoting the KP National Quality Program.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Works on assignment of diverse scope.
• Assists the Lead, Senior Manager, and/or Director in developing and executing goals that promote the success of overall CMI goals, related to analytical deliverables, by evaluating established and emerging care practices.
• Clarifies stakeholder needs and identifies potential solutions.
• Performs program evaluations and other analyses to establish priorities for improving analytics or assess the materiality of changes to technical measurement specifications and care delivery.
• Produces technical or professional work deliverables.
• Collaborates with peers, superiors, staff and regional stakeholders to influence regional strategies and goals for analytics and care delivery.
• Leads the development and implementation of key care delivery strategies at KP.
• Builds buy-in from internal and external key constituencies.
• Assists Manager or Director in monitoring project milestones and reports on progress.
• Consider appropriate compute skills necessary to perform job.
• Under minimal supervision and guidance, conduct complex and/or innovative program evaluations: collect data, using sophisticated methods and sources, identify and implement analytic approaches that address challenges to validity or generalability, and prepare interpretations, conclusions, and recommendations.
• With Manager and/or Director, prepared and makes formal presentations to various senior-level audiences.
• Contributes to development of Center infrastructure for conducting efficient and effective program evaluation and innovation support.
• Identifies and escalates barriers to milestone achievement and recommends strategies to    reduce or eliminate barriers.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with national and regional groups.
• Participates on regional or national work groups.
• Ensures customer service orientation both internally and externally.
• Coordinates appropriate training in areas of expertise.
• Plans and facilitates meetings, including agenda planning, minutes, follow-up, tracking, and timelines.

Basic Qualifications:

Experience

• Minimum five (5) years of related experience.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field required, OR four (4) years of experience in a directly related field.
• High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) required.

Additional Requirements

• Thorough knowledge of policies, practices and systems.
• Complete understanding and application of principles, concepts, practices, and standards.
• Full knowledge of industry practices.
• Broad application of principles, theories, and concepts in applicable discipline, plus working knowledge of other related fields.
• Consider clinical expertise needs.
• Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree preferred, OR six (6) years of experience in a directly related field.

For immediate consideration, please visit http://kp.org/careers for complete qualifications and job submission details, referencing job number 1079639.

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status.

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with federal and state laws, as well as applicable local ordinances, including but not limited to the San Francisco and Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinances.

This position supports Kaiser Permanente’s code of conduct and compliance by adhering to all laws and regulations, accreditation and licensure requirements, and internal policies and procedures.

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