Health Strategy Consultant

Guidehouse•Arlington, VA

About The Position

A career within Guidehouse Health offers the opportunity to help clients transform care delivery and health care operations. The organization focuses on the operations and performance of mission-oriented agencies, academic medical centers, and commercial health care enterprises to plan and drive change that enables strong outcomes. As a Consultant II on the Health Informatics and Technology team, you will support federal health clients with complex initiatives, executive decision-making, and the implementation and optimization of EHR systems and related digital health capabilities. You will work on a multidisciplinary team, providing project management and executive-level support, translating health informatics and EHR concepts into actionable guidance, and helping clients deliver digital health initiatives on schedule and in alignment with mission priorities. The role also supports program operations, analysis, reporting, stakeholder readiness, change management, knowledge transfer, and team and practice development. Travel is required up to 25%, and the position requires the ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Health Informatics, Health Information Management, Health Administration, Public Health, Business, Information Technology, or a related field.
At least three years of experience supporting project or program management in health care, health information technology, management consulting, or a related environment.
Experience providing executive-level support, including preparing briefings, presentations, decision materials, executive summaries, meeting materials, and status reports for senior leaders.
Strong analytical, writing, facilitation, and communication skills, including the ability to translate complex clinical, technical, and operational information for executive and nontechnical audiences.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, and Teams.
Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with clients, executives, clinicians, technical teams, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, or another federal health agency.
Experience with large-scale EHR modernization, implementation, or optimization initiatives in complex health care environments.
Knowledge of clinical informatics, interoperability, health data standards, data governance, patient safety, usability, workflow redesign, or health information exchange.
Experience with project management methodologies and tools, such as Agile, hybrid, or predictive delivery approaches.
PMP, CPHIMS, CAHIMS, or related certification.
Master's degree in Health Informatics, Health Information Management, Health Administration, Public Health, Business, or a related field; the source text is truncated after “B.”

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, resource plans, risk and issue information, decisions, and success measures for federal health and digital health initiatives.
Coordinate activities across technical, clinical, operational, policy, and communications workstreams to align deliverables, resolve dependencies, and support timely execution.
Facilitate project governance, working sessions, and status reviews; document decisions and action items; and drive follow-through with accountable owners.
Identify and escalate delivery risks, scope changes, and emerging issues, and develop mitigation strategies and recommendations for client leadership.
Support senior executives by preparing decision briefs, executive summaries, talking points, presentations, meeting materials, read-ahead packages, and recommendations.
Synthesize program, clinical, technical, and operational information into concise, decision-ready products for executive audiences.
Prepare leaders for governance meetings, stakeholder engagements, and high-priority discussions by coordinating inputs, anticipating questions, and identifying required decisions and actions.
Build and maintain relationships with client executives, clinical and technical subject matter experts, program offices, vendors, and other stakeholders.
Apply health informatics knowledge to support planning, implementation, optimization, governance, and evaluation of EHR and digital health capabilities.
Work with clinicians, informaticists, technologists, operational leaders, and vendors to translate user needs into requirements, priorities, and recommendations.
Support change management, stakeholder readiness, and adoption for EHR implementations and enterprise health IT initiatives.
Promote consistent project management practices, clear documentation, and knowledge transfer across multidisciplinary teams.
Develop and maintain project management tools, including status reports, dashboards, schedules, risk and issue logs, decision logs, action trackers, requirements traceability tools, and executive reporting materials.
Monitor scope, schedule, quality, dependencies, and performance indicators; identify trends and provide data-informed recommendations to improve delivery and outcomes.
Contribute to business development growth and internal Guidehouse initiatives, and mentor junior team members as appropriate.