Strategic Consultant

Position: Strategic Consultant

Location: Remote - St. Paul, MN.

Duration: 12 Months Approx.

Minimum Qualifications

• Five (5) years’ experience providing consultation and guidance to a State Medicaid program

• Three (3) years’ experience supporting the creation of a strategy for modernizing systems and technology.

Desired Skills

• Product and Agile Methodology

• Strategy planning and consultation

• Facilitation and interviewing

• Ability to work across organizations to gather requirements

• Demonstrable leadership ability: especially to build consensus around solutions

• Ability to establish program/project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools and tracking such milestones and deliverables

• Extensive experience with industry standards for Medicaid HIT, such as for data interoperability

Sample Tasks

• Build relationships with and conduct interviews with key contributors of Medicaid Enterprise System (MES) modernization to collect information and feedback about work products and utilize what is collected to improve work products.

• Facilitate meetings with multiple contributors of MES modernization to collect feedback, ask strategic questions, and provide information from past experiences to guide the MES modernization initiative towards identified goals. Utilize what is collected to improve work products.

• Listen in on standing MES modernization planning meetings and identify themes, patterns, and opportunities that can populate recommendations for new ways of working within MES modernization, as aligned with the MES modernization strategy.

• Engage with the existing MES modernization strategy and provide recommendations for improvements and lead the creation and implementation of an action plan to implement this strategy.

• Facilitate a process to develop outcomes that align with information and priorities (such as equity) collected from Medicaid business areas and which align with the MES modernization strategy. This process should also include measuring current state/baselining of these outcomes, so improvements can be measured as the action plan is implemented.

• Provide guidance and leadership to support the MES modernization effort in creating and implementing a communication plan for all work efforts this role has a lead role in.

• Provide guidance on how to align the MES modernization strategy with the Agency’s broader efforts to move toward being a Product organization and using Agile ways of working.

• Provide support to Redesign for an Agile Medicaid Program (RAMP) as they try to be a model for the new ways of working that are part of the new MES modernization strategy – asking questions and sharing insights about how RAMP can align more with those new ways of working.

• Collaborate with change management staff and change management efforts to ensure alignment with the MES modernization strategy.

• Actively learn about other modernization and transformation efforts within the Agency and provide guidance on alignment and potential risks.

• Lead planning for implementing the MES modernization action plan under the MES modernization strategic plan and provide guidance and feedback to contributing teams.

• Facilitate a process to develop sub-strategies of the MES modernization strategy, such as procurement/vendor management, staffing, outcomes demand management, and system integration.