Medicaid Strategic Consultant

Position: Medicaid Strategic Consultant

Duration: 12 months

Location: St. Paul MN (Remote)

Agency: DHS

Job ID: 3180

Client: State of Minnesota

Job Description

Description of Project

The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) is seeking one fulltime resource to work on the new unified effort that will be known as Medicaid Enterprise System (MES) modernization. Recently the Redesign for an Agile Medicaid Program (RAMP) became the steering body for modernizing all Medicaid functions. In the past different Medicaid functions have had different planning efforts which has created challenging complexity.

At a high level RAMP seeks a Strategic Consultant to guide RAMP on the continued creation of an MES modernization strategy with an actionable plan that is feasible targeted to real outcomes for the people we serve and efficient in progress.

Tasks

• Build relationships with and conduct interviews with key contributors of Medicaid Enterprise System (MES) modernization to collect information and feedback about work products and utilize what is collected to improve work products.
• Facilitate meetings with multiple contributors of MES modernization to collect feedback ask strategic questions and provide information from past experiences to guide the MES modernization initiative towards identified goals. Utilize what is collected to improve work products.
• Listen in on standing MES modernization planning meetings and identify themes patterns and opportunities that can populate recommendations for new ways of working within MES modernization as aligned with the MES modernization strategy.
• Engage with the existing MES modernization strategy and provide recommendations for improvements and lead the creation and implementation of an action plan to implement this strategy.
• Facilitate a process to develop outcomes that align with information and priorities (such as equity) collected from Medicaid business areas and which align with the MES modernization strategy. This process should also include measuring current state/baselining of these outcomes so improvements can be measured as the action plan is implemented.
• Provide guidance and leadership to support the MES modernization effort in creating and implementing a communication plan for all work efforts this role has a lead role in.
• Provide guidance on how to align the MES modernization strategy with the Agencys broader efforts to move toward being a Product organization and using Agile ways of working.
• Provide support to Redesign for an Agile Medicaid Program (RAMP) as they try to be a model for the new ways of working that are part of the new MES modernization strategy asking questions and sharing insights about how RAMP can align more with those new ways of working.
• Collaborate with change management staff and change management efforts to ensure alignment with the MES modernization strategy.
• Actively learn about other modernization and transformation efforts within the Agency and provide guidance on alignment and potential risks.
• Lead planning for implementing the MES modernization action plan under the MES modernization strategic plan and provide guidance and feedback to contributing teams.
• Facilitate a process to develop substrategies of the MES modernization strategy such as procurement/vendor management staffing outcomes demand management and system integration.

Minimum Qualifications

• Five (5) years experience providing consultation and guidance to a State Medicaid program
• Three (3) years experience supporting the creation of a strategy for modernizing systems and technology.

Desired Skills

• Product and Agile Methodology
• Strategy planning and consultation
• Facilitation and interviewing
• Ability to work across organizations to gather requirements
• Demonstrable leadership ability: especially to build consensus around solutions
• Ability to establish program/project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools and tracking such milestones and deliverables
• Extensive experience with industry standards for Medicaid HIT such as for data interoperability