Job Title

Population Health Portfolio Manager

Department

Population Health Management

Exemption Status

Exempt

Requisition #

24357

Direct Reports

Population Health Specialists

Manager Title

Population Health Portfolio Director

Pay & Benefits

Estimated hiring range $ 98,390 - $120,250, /year, 5% bonus target, full benefits.

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Posting Notes

This role is Hybrid –1 day per week in the office

Job Summary

The Population Health Portfolio Manager is responsible for the oversight and continuous improvement of a regional Population Health Portfolio and initiatives. The position acts as an innovator and integrator across the network, convening Coordinated Care Organization (CCO) partners to co-create, learn together, and spread emerging best practices for improving care for CareOregon populations. This highly creative leadership position is responsible for promoting a great degree of intra-departmental collaboration and integration. Functionally, this position oversees the regional population health and high-risk strategy.

Essential Responsibilities

• Participate in the development, implementation, and evaluation of population health programs, including high risk CareOregon members in partnership with the CareOregon network and other community partners.

• Create, recommend, facilitate, and evaluate population health strategies and care enhancing cost-control programs that serve members across CareOregon’s regional population.

• Serve as the content expert for Population Segmentation and other population health tools for the region.

• Promote collaboration with delivery system leaders across the region to build a strong foundation of population health program support.

• Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with community-based social service organizations in partnership with community health staff to assure CareOregon can leverage and improve access to upstream non-medical health-enhancing services for its members.

• Support collaborative relationships with providers that promote and achieve Triple Aim goals.

• Ensure strategic performance goals, expectations and standards are clearly understood by stakeholders.

• Evaluate the Population Health Portfolio performance on an ongoing basis and take appropriate corrective action.

• Represent CareOregon on appropriate local, state, and national committees and work groups.

• Strategically inform and provide guidance from a population health perspective to care management teams.

  Employee Supervision

• Manages team and recommends team direction and goals in alignment with the organizational mission, vision, and values.

• Identifies work and staffing needs to meet work expectations; recruits and hires, using an equity, diversity, and inclusion lens.

• Plans, organizes, schedules, and monitors work; ensures employees have information and resources to meet job expectations.

• Leads the development, communication, and oversight of team and individual goals; ensures goals, expectations, and standards are clearly understood by staff.

• Trains, supervises, motivates, and coaches employees; provides support toward employee development.

• Incorporates guidance from CareOregon equity tools into people leadership, planning, operations, evaluation, and decision making.

• Ensures team adheres to department and organizational standards, policies, and procedures.

• Evaluates employee performance and provides regular feedback to support success; recognizes strong performance and addresses performance gaps and accountability (corrective action).

• Performs supervisory tasks in collaboration with Human Resources as needed.

  Organizational Responsibilities

• Perform work in alignment with the organization’s mission, vision and values.

• Support the organization’s commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion by fostering a culture of open mindedness, cultural awareness, compassion and respect for all individuals.

• Strive to meet annual business goals in support of the organization’s strategic goals.

• Adhere to the organization’s policies, procedures and other relevant compliance needs.

• Perform other duties as needed.

  Experience and/or Education

  Required

• Minimum 5 years’ related experience, including 3 years in a population health program

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a supervisory position or minimum 1 year experience in a supervisory position with completion of CareOregon’s Aspiring Leaders Program

• Valid driver’s license, acceptable driving record, and automobile liability coverage or access to an insured vehicle

  Preferred

• Leadership experience in a managed care organization

  Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

  Knowledge

• Strong understanding of impact of generational poverty and other social determinants of health on clients’ ability to develop and follow self-care goals to improve health outcomes

• Applied knowledge of program management and ability to lead and/or contribute to process improvement strategies

• General understanding of the management of diverse medical and psychosocial problems, and a deep understanding of the health effects related to poverty, societal discrimination, and intergenerational trauma

• Understanding of managed care and publicly financed health care stewardship principles

• Understanding of health equity, health literacy, shared decision making, and advanced care planning principles

  Skills and Abilities

• Ability to design and implement new initiatives and strategies that improve population outcomes

• Strong people leadership skills, including the ability to lead a diverse group of people toward a common vision with proven results related to motivation, engagement, and goal attainment

• People management skills, including the ability to coach and develop staff

• Highly effective strategic planning, communication, organization, continuous improvement, and interpersonal skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to train diverse groups about population health, complex care management, and triple aim principles

• Ability to work with high-energy, be persistent, assertive, data driven and focused

• Highly effective and active communicator who works well with people at all levels

• Ability to work with an open leadership style and actively seek out and support collaborative thinking and problem solving with others inside and outside the organization and approaches his/her work as an interconnected system

• Ability to work effectively with diverse individuals and groups

• Ability to learn, focus, understand, and evaluate information and determine appropriate actions

• Ability to accept direction and feedback, as well as tolerate and manage stress

• Ability to see, read, and perform repetitive finger and wrist movement for at least 6 hours/day

• Ability to hear and speak clearly for at least 3-6 hours/day

• Ability to operate a motor vehicle

  Working Conditions

  Work Environment(s): ☒ Indoor/Office ☐ Community ☐ Facilities/Security ☐ Outdoor Exposure

  Member/Patient Facing: ☒ No ☐ Telephonic ☐ In Person

  Hazards: May include, but not limited to, physical and ergonomic hazards.

  Equipment: General office equipment

  Travel: Requires travel outside of the workplace at least weekly; the employee’s personal vehicle may be used. Driving infractions will be monitored in accordance with organizational policy.

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Candidates of color are strongly encouraged to apply. CareOregon is committed to building a linguistically and culturally diverse and inclusive work environment.

Veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

We are an equal opportunity employer. CareOregon considers all candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.

Visa sponsorship is not available at this time.