[Hiring] Consultant V - Community & Social Health @Kaiser Permanente

Role Description

The Consultant V plays a key role within the Community & Social Health organization by helping identify, evaluate, and launch new strategic ventures that improve health outcomes and advance Kaiser Permanente’s mission. Working closely with the Executive Director, Impact & Partnerships, this role leads the early stages of new opportunities: assessing clinical relevance, operational feasibility, and overall value to determine whether ideas should move forward.

The Consultant V brings input from clinicians, operators, and business partners, conducts and coordinates analysis, and translates complex information into clear recommendations. The role’s primary goal is to move new ideas to a clear “go or no‑go” decision and set them up for successful implementation if approved.

Job Responsibilities

• Opportunity Strategy & Clinical Diligence:
  • Lead end‑to‑end evaluation of new partnership and venture ideas, assessing clinical relevance, operational feasibility, financial implications, and community impact.
  • Partner with the Executive Director, Impact & Partnerships, to shape opportunity strategy and guide initiatives to clear go / no‑go decisions.
• Stakeholder Alignment & Analysis:
  • Engage clinicians, operational leaders, health plan partners, and functional teams to gather input and build alignment around proposed opportunities.
  • Coordinate and synthesize research, data analysis, and market insights into clear, decision‑ready recommendations for senior leaders.
• Implementation Design & Governance:
  • Own the high‑level design of approved initiatives, including defining the target operating model, key workflows, roles, dependencies, and success measures.
  • Ensure proposals and designs align with organizational priorities, regulatory requirements, and internal policies.
  • Support transition from decision to execution by setting implementation direction and partnering with program and operational teams.
• Serves as lead consultant to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse stakeholders to drive the implementation of successful business initiatives and projects.
• Provides expertise and drives the development and implementation of business initiatives, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state.
• Develops business strategy and ensures alignment and prioritization of organizational objectives and business initiatives.
• Manages complex projects or project components, leads change management activities, and performs complex data analyses to drive business initiatives.
• Participates in vendor management as required.
• Monitors compliance of work activities by ensuring business plans and team members adhere to relevant policies and procedures.

Essential Responsibilities

• Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Listens, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members.
• Practices self-leadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit.
• Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback.
• Models team collaboration within and across teams.
• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies.
• Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves complex problems.
• Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals.
• Recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; evaluates recommendations made; influences the completion of project tasks by others.
• Serves as a lead consultant to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse stakeholders to drive the implementation of successful business initiatives and projects.
• Develops requirements, or leads a team of consultants in the development of requirements, for complex or specialized business, process, or system solutions.
• Provides expertise and drives the development and implementation of business initiatives, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state.
• Develops business strategy and ensures alignment and prioritization of organizational objectives and business initiatives.
• Serves as a lead advocate for continuous learning and professional development.
• Manages complex projects or project components by coordinating stakeholder contacts.
• Leads change management activities associated with business initiatives.
• Performs complex data analyses to drive business initiatives.
• Participates in vendor management as required.
• Monitors compliance of work activities by ensuring business plans and team members adhere to KP, departmental, and/or business line policies and procedures.

Qualifications

• Minimum two (2) years experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university and Minimum eight (8) years experience in consulting, project management, data analytics, operations or a directly related field OR Masters degree in Business, Public Health, or a directly related field and Minimum six (6) years experience in consulting, project management, data analytics, operations or a directly related field OR Minimum ten (10) years experience in consulting, project management, data analytics, operations or a directly related field.

Additional Requirements

• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):
  • Business Acumen
  • Change Management
  • Negotiation
  • Creativity
  • Applied Data Analysis
  • Financial Acumen
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Managing Diverse Relationships
  • Process Validation
  • Project Management
  • Risk Assessment
  • Service Focus
  • Requirements Elicitation & Analysis