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Thank you for your interest in the Alliance. Current open positions are listed below.
Project Coordinator
The Puget Sound Health Alliance was created to build a leadership coalition - among patients, providers, purchasers, health plans and others - to improve the quality of health care for our community, at a price more people can afford. The work of the Alliance focuses on defining, measuring, reporting and rewarding high quality, efficient health care in the Puget Sound region.
A key component of this effort is to develop and produce performance reports and interactive analytic capabilities using regional health data to improve health care decision-making, leading to quality improvement and ultimately cost control. The Project Coordinator will report to the Director of
Performance Measurement and support overall tracking and coordination of internal Alliance resources and projects, including the development of project plans for a number of initiatives.
Duties and Responsibilities: The Alliance seeks an exceptionally strong and technically minded project coordinator who is experienced, capable, and comfortable working on dynamic, multi-faceted, fast-paced projects for which continuous planning, oversight, and management is essential.
Major responsibilities of this position include:
- Manage and coordinate a variety of technical project details, including ensuring that critical deadlines are met.
- Establish and maintain a repeatable project management methodology.
- Monitor project progress using Microsoft Project and regularly report on project status.
- Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
- Identify issues and conflicts within the project team.
- Identify project dependencies and critical path.
- Coordinate relevant projects with third-party vendors and other resources.
- Planning and execution of report production, distribution, and support activities.
- Conduct project post mortems and create recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
- Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
Qualifications: Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor’s Degree or relevant experience with an emphasis in the coordination of technical oriented projects. Healthcare industry experience through previous work within a health plan or provider organization is highly desirable.
Additional qualifications include the following:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Highly organized and experienced in multi-tasking
- Fast learner with an understanding of technology
- Ability to work in a team environment and bring about consensus on contradicting views
- Ability to provide exceptional follow through and be customer-service driven
- Proficient with Microsoft Office, including MS Project and Visio
- Experience implementing all aspects of a technology focused project
- Advanced knowledge and demonstrated experience in the use of project implementation methodologies, best practices and processes
- Communication with and/or regular exposure to high-level executives within a project or company setting
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment and manage multiple projects
- Create and manage project plans per defined project management methodology
- Provide concise project related reporting to appropriate audiences
- Have a passion for work flow and process improvement
- Have track record of success in a highly matrix environment
This position offers a unique opportunity to join with like-minded individuals to successfully transform the health care system in the Puget Sound region. Please send resume and salary requirements to:
Mark Pregler
Director of Performance Measurement
Puget Sound Health Alliance
600 Stewart Street, Suite 824
Seattle, WA 98101
mpregler@pugetsoundhealthalliance.org
Please, no unsolicited phone inquiries.
Puget Sound Health Alliance is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome job applications from qualified individuals without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
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Business Intelligence Developer
The Puget Sound Health Alliance was created to build a leadership coalition - among patients, providers, purchasers, health plans and others - to improve the quality of health care for our community, at a price more people can afford. The work of the Alliance focuses on defining, measuring, reporting and rewarding high quality, efficient health care in the Puget Sound region.
A key component of this effort is to develop and produce performance reports and interactive analytic capabilities using regional health data to improve health care decision-making, leading to quality improvement and ultimately cost control. The Business Intelligence Developer will report to the Director
of Performance Measurement and support the evolution of the Alliance Performance Reporting System through continued and enhanced use of Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Tools.
Duties and Responsibilities: The Alliance seeks an exceptionally strong and analytically-oriented business intelligence developer who is experienced, capable, and comfortable working on dynamic, multifaceted, fast-paced projects for which continuous planning, oversight, and management is essential. The position will include direct work with industry experts and top executives among health care purchasers, providers, health plans and patients in the Puget Sound region.
Major responsibilities of this position include:
- Play a key role in the planning, development and production of performance reports and interactive analytic applications addressing health quality and resource use for the Puget Sound region.
- Support the design and development of advanced analytic and reporting capabilities using Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Tools.
- Support the creation and maintenance of business intelligence design standards and best practices.
- Collaborate with business subject matter experts, business analysts, functional leads, architects and technical leads from other disciplines to come up with end to end solutions to meet assigned business requirements.
- Identify technical issues that arise and work with project teams and associated stakeholders to address and resolve issues.
- Develop technical documents related to performance reports including technical specifications, issue briefs, write-ups of technical items for committee/Board consideration.
- Assist with the development and preparation of project plans and schedules.
Qualifications: Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information System or Health Information Technology with significant experience using Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Platform. Strong health care industry experience through previous work within a health plan or provider organization is highly desirable.
Additional qualifications include the following:
- 5+ years’ experience in data warehouse development, dimensional modeling, OLAP, ETL design
- 5+ years’ hands on experience with SQL Server 2005/2008, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, SharePoint, Performance Point, Excel Services
- Demonstrated SQL development with extensive experience in developing stored procedures, views, functions, triggers, & advanced logical methods
- Solid understand and experience designing and developing multidimensional databases
- Knowledge of and experience with VB, C#, ASP and/or MDX highly desirable
- Experience creating compelling and meaningful end-user reports displaying health quality and cost information for a wide range of audiences, including providers, consumers, health plans, and
purchasers
- Strong analytic and quantitative aptitude, including an understanding of statistics
- Ability to work effectively on multiple complex projects simultaneously, manage multiple deadlines, and to anticipate and coordinate resources
- Excellent oral and written communication skills including ability to communicate complex ideas in a simple way
- Demonstrated ability to execute on cross-organizational initiatives
- Self-directed; a self-starter who can work with minimal supervision
- Strong inter-personal skills and poise to interact with senior leaders
- Technical and detail oriented
- Enthusiastic team player
This position offers a unique opportunity to join with like-minded individuals to successfully transform the health care system in the Puget Sound region. Please send resume and salary requirements to:
Mark Pregler
Director of Performance Measurement
Puget Sound Health Alliance
600 Stewart Street, Suite 824
Seattle, WA 98101
mpregler@pugetsoundhealthalliance.org
Please, no unsolicited phone inquiries.
Puget Sound Health Alliance is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome job applications from qualified individuals without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
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