[Hiring] Program Management Specialist @Seattle Children's

Role Description

Serve as the program-governance and project-coordination lead across Payor Contracting, Reimbursement Analytics, and Provider Enrollment. This role independently establishes project structures, workplans, and tracking mechanisms to translate leadership decisions and negotiation priorities into actionable deliverables.

(Note: This position drives governance, implementation, and cross-functional follow-through; it does not set legal/negotiation strategy, perform rate modeling, or manage routine executive calendars.)

Key Responsibilities

• Program & Portfolio Governance: Build and maintain integrated project plans, decision logs, risk registers, and milestone tracking for multi-faceted contracting, regulatory, and operational initiatives.
• Executive Payor Governance: Oversee end-to-end planning for executive payor meetings, including agenda prioritization, briefing materials, commitment tracking, and documentation of key outcomes.
• Executive Decision Support & Synthesis: Distill complex operational, financial, and contractual updates into concise, executive-ready presentations, decision briefs, and status reports.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Coordinate deliverables among internal teams (Legal, Finance, Revenue Cycle, Analytics), external partners, and executive sponsors to ensure timeline alignment and smooth operational handoffs.
• Workflow Optimization & Automation: Leverage Microsoft 365, work-management systems, and approved automation/AI tools to streamline project intake, reporting, and tracking while maintaining strict data confidentiality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, health care or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Five (5) years experience with program support; including three (3) years in program/project coordination in a professional capacity.
• Two (2) years experience working on quality and process improvement projects with cross-functional teams; including data collection, analysis and reporting.
• Proven record of project completion, program planning, execution and status reporting.
• Experience successfully developing relationships across the organization.

Requirements

• N/A.

Preferred

• Experience working in public health, health care or social services.
• Experience analyzing improvement data and working with internal clients to analyze and develop improvement strategies.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement/Lean methodologies and processes.
• Awareness of current and emerging trends in project management technologies, techniques, issues and approaches.
• Experience project coordinating/facilitating large complex organizational initiatives that cross all departments and roles.
• Proven track record leading project or portfolio governance across multiple concurrent, complex initiatives with senior stakeholders.
• Strong ability to translate ambiguous priorities into structured workplans, milestones, and accountability frameworks.
• Exceptional executive communication skills, with experience synthesizing complex technical, financial, or regulatory data into briefings and decision documents.
• Background in healthcare administration, health plans, payor contracting, reimbursement, revenue cycle, or related fields preferred.
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 tools, project management software, and workflow automation.

Compensation Range

$82,736.00 - $124,104.00 per year

Salary Information

This compensation range was calculated based on full-time employment (2080 hours worked per calendar year). Offers are determined by multiple factors including equity, skills, experience, and expertise, and may vary within the range provided.

Disclaimer for Out of State Applicants

This compensation range is specific to Seattle; positions located outside of Seattle may be compensated differently depending on various factors.

Benefits

• Seattle Children’s offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 403(b), life insurance, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more.
• Additional details on our benefits can be found on our website www.seattlechildrens.org/careers/benefits .