Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we’ve been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That’s where our people come in – from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.
Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace — earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 11 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare — but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark’s full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career.
This role leads initiatives for the Population Health business. This business is a Value-based health offering that we deliver in partnership with various payers. The person filling this role must possess the ability to operate in a complex health delivery space which will require strong communication and listening skills, problem identification and solution development skills, including analysis, prioritization, and project management skills across a number of initiatives all at the same time.
Position Functions and Responsibilities
- Partners with leadership to guide prioritization of initiatives and utilization of resources.
- Interfaces with senior management and stakeholders across the organization to gather support and ensure alignment amongst all impacted teams.
- Assists in the development of performance metrics, dashboards and management tools that clearly articulate the status of key activities ensuring timely and successful execution.
- Manages end to end activities related to initiatives:
- Resource allocation including budgeting and personnel assignment.
- Quality assurance, compliance, and risk management activities.
- Regularly communicate initiative status with a broad audience.
- Tracking project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short- and long-term goals.
- Change management relative to the scope, cost, or timeline of the initiatives under management.
- Leads, coaches and mentors the project team to enhance performance and professional growth. May include direct resource supervision.
- Establishes and implements project management processes and methodologies to ensure best practices.
- Champions continuous improvement within the project management team by reviewing and optimizing policies and procedures.
- Manages change in collaboration with impacted teams to minimize distraction and maximize value to the end user.
- Celebrate and champion Lifespark culture.
- Follow and implement Lifespark expectations for courageous conversations, honesty and integrity, transparency, and good intentions.
Qualifications
- 4-year college degree or equivalent experience.
- Experience, training or certification in Project Management.
- Experience, training or certification in process improvement methodologies.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a clinical setting.
- Previous experience in leadership roles preferred.
- Experience working with seniors preferred.
- Experience in customer service/direct member contact field preferred.
- Experience in multiple settings and situations.
- Experience in long term goal setting and pro-active intervention.
It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer’s premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.
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