About This Role
The Project Director provides overall leadership, coordination, and implementation oversight for the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) New Models of Care project. This role is responsible for ensuring that project activities are implemented according to the approved work plan, budget, timeline, grant requirements, and organizational priorities.
Responsibilities
- Direct day-to-day implementation of the New Models of Care project and maintain alignment with the approved scope of work, objectives, milestones, and budget.
- Develop and maintain the project work plan, implementation schedule, performance targets, risk log, and corrective-action plans.
- Supervise and coordinate project staff and ensure appropriate role clarity, workload distribution, training, and performance expectations.
- Coordinate implementation of Community Health Worker, care coordination, referral management, and multidisciplinary care-team workflows.
- Work with clinical leadership to ensure appropriate clinical oversight, escalation pathways, and scope-of-practice requirements.
- Coordinate with healthcare providers, behavioral health, dental, public health, Tribal programs, community organizations, and other partners.
- Develop and maintain project partnerships, MOUs, referral pathways, and operational agreements.
- Monitor project expenditures and work with finance and administrative staff to ensure appropriate use of grant funds.
- Coordinate required grant reporting, reimbursement documentation, performance reporting, and compliance activities.
- Monitor project performance measures and use data to identify barriers, improve workflows, and support continuous quality improvement.
- Lead regular project meetings, multidisciplinary team meetings, and partner coordination activities.
- Prepare regular updates for the Health Director, Health Board, Tribal leadership, and grant administrators.
- Ensure appropriate privacy, security, documentation, consent, and regulatory requirements are incorporated into project operations.
- Lead sustainability planning, including identification of reimbursement opportunities, Tribal funding, partnerships, and other long-term support.
- Support evaluation and development of a scalability/replication playbook documenting project processes, lessons learned, and best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in healthcare administration, public health, business, social services, or related field required; master's degree preferred.
- Experience in healthcare, rural health, Tribal health, program management, grant administration, or a related field.
- Demonstrated project management and organizational skills.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary teams and community partnerships.