Center Director, Center for Health Care Model Implementation

Overview

RTI’s Health Care Payment and Quality (HCPQ) division has an opening for a Center Director in the Center for Health Care Model Implementation.

The Division’s mission focuses enhancing the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care delivery by applying innovative statistical, risk-adjustment, and policy modeling methods, supporting quality measurement and value-based care through outcomes research, and defining and promoting best practices around model and program implementation.

The Center for Health Care Model Implementation defines and promotes the best practices around model and program implementation.

The Center develops innovative approaches around rulemaking, data processing, TA, monitoring, and performance analysis.

The Center Director oversees operations, establishes, plans and administers the goals of the Center in alignment with the Health Practice Area.

This position wins, leads and / or manages highly complex Health Practice Area research projects. The position also researches highly complex Health Practice Area issues and reviews published and web-based Practice Area sources.

Responsibilities

• Assists leadership in the preparation and implementation of strategic plans.
• Plays a leadership role in committees or initiatives around operational and management issues (i.e. labor planning) within Practice Area and SSES.
• Determines the appropriate tools, techniques, staffing and methodologies to extract data that produces meaningful results.
• Has both strategic and operational accountability for the direction and performance of the groups being managed, including meeting financial and non-financial goals for the Center.
• Stays abreast of and leverages new methodologies to advance the business.
• Interacts with senior levels of the Practice Area to develop and deliver that accountability.
• Contributes across the Practice Area and supports collaboration across SSES in working with senior managers on broad strategic and operational issues.
• Leads the development of the function ensuring sufficient resources and needed skill sets are present to meet the needs of RTI.

Fully responsible for identifying and implementing improvements in work processes.

Manages staff through performance planning, development and evaluation process. Ensures staff development and career progression.

Ensures practices in place to drive towards a high level of staff morale and retention.

• Guides promotion and succession processes.
• As a scientific / technical manager, may write and review proposals or portions of proposals. Mentors staff in same.
• Supports business development activities relevant to the organization that they manage (the center) and to position RTI to go after those opportunities (through staff development, hiring, innovation, etc.).
• As a scientific / technical manager, may lead or advise appropriate part of complex projects.
• Mentors staff in project Leadership
• Oversees or identifies appropriate lead reviewers for project management review meetings for projects led by the Center;
• ensures processes are in place for Project Managers to receive appropriate project management and human subjects related trainings, mentoring, and oversight;

ensures client feedback is requested and addressed; and ensures processes in place with Project Managers in the Center and the Practice Area Finance Partner on anticipating and addressing project overruns.

This may also be performed by VP.)

Ensures the professional credibility of the group function internally and externally with key clients, professional organizations, and partners.

Helps to develop the scientific and / or professional stature of staff.

• Oversees support to Practice Area operations, including but not limited to administration, and review, time reporting monitoring, corporate credit card administration, travel coordination, records management, and conference logistics.
• Monitor best practices and changes in procedures and adjust, update and disseminate the SOP documentation to ensure they are implemented and adherence by staff at all levels.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications :

• Bachelor's Degree and at least 20 years of experience, or a Master's degree and at least 16 years of experience, or a PhD and at least 12 years of experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience managing complex projects for federal agencies such as Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Center for Disease Control (CDD), and Federal Drug Administration (FDA)
• Extensive knowledge as SME in Medicare payment policy and alternative payment models
• Extensive knowledge as SME in Medicare program data
• Strong analytics and quantitative skills
• Successful record of obtaining competitive funding and scientific stature activities.
• Experience leading highly complex projects with multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent project and proposal management skills and engagement with clients.
• Highly skilled in budget management, reporting systems, cost estimating, and evaluation of cost drivers.
• Communication and interpersonal skills required to guide, moderate and exchange information across all levels of the organization.
• Experience mentoring and supervising leaders.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Ability to work well with others and independently.
• Demonstration of the RTI Values and Lead Forward behaviors by all employees is critical to the Institute’s success. Behaviors associated with our Values and Lead Forward can been found on RTI Insider and Careers page.
• To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States and should not require now, or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status.
8 days ago