Project Manager - Rural Access & Care Coordination

COMPREHENSIVE HEALTHCARE•Yakima, WA

5d•$79,019 - $98,779•Onsite

About The Position

The Project Manager - Rural Access & Care Coordination provides implementation leadership to move the approved RHT Initiative 6.2 and CCBHC Bridge Funding plan from funding request to coordinated operational practice. Reporting directly to the Executive Vice President of Outpatient Services, the role translates approved grant scope, annual funding requirements, and deliverables into an integrated implementation plan with milestones, accountable owners, dependencies, RACI assignments, monitoring, and documented results. The Project Manager coordinates internal teams, vendors, consultants, and community partners to implement rural access, care coordination, workflow, workforce, data, CCBHC readiness, and sustainability activities within approved timelines and budgets. The position manages the project life cycle from initiation and planning through implementation, operational transition, annual renewal activities, and grant closeout. It coordinates the design, documentation, training, implementation, and adoption of grant-funded workflows and data infrastructure; supports CCBHC readiness, quality, compliance, and grant-review preparation; and maintains implementation controls, reporting, and evidence. The role also ensures activities remain within the authorized grant purpose and that major grant-funded work has operational owners and sustainability plans before transition to routine operations. The position is based at the Yakima Main Center in Yakima, Washington, and is primarily office-based, with interactions across departments, service locations, vendors, consultants, and community partners. Travel between sites and occasional schedule flexibility may be required. This is a grant-funded position supported by RHT Initiative 6.2 and CCBHC Bridge Funding. The anticipated grant period begins October 1, 2026 and extends for five years, with funding requested and approved annually. Continued employment depends on annual funding availability, approved grant scope, satisfactory grant performance, and organizational need.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in healthcare administration, business administration, public health, social services, organizational leadership, information systems, project management, or a related field.
At least three years of project management experience.
Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and managing multiple complex workstreams, deadlines, dependencies, budgets, and stakeholders.
Strong project planning, organization, facilitation, documentation, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to translate grant requirements and approved scope into practical project plans, deliverables, roles, timelines, and evidence.
Ability to manage competing priorities, budgets, risks, dependencies, vendors, and stakeholders while maintaining clear accountability.
Knowledge of healthcare operations, workflow improvement, change management, continuous quality improvement, and data-informed decision-making.
Ability to prepare concise executive reports and communicate effectively with clinical, technical, operational, financial, community, and executive audiences.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and project management tools.
Knowledge of CCBHC certification requirements and Medicaid-funded behavioral health services.
Ability to analyze complex data, interpret trends, make strategic decisions, maintain attention to detail and accuracy, and exercise sound judgment in sensitive or high-risk situations.
Ability to work effectively in a behavioral health environment, including possible exposure to individuals experiencing emotional or behavioral crises, while maintaining professionalism and composure.
Ability to communicate verbally and in writing with diverse audiences, including staff, patients, community partners, and executive leadership.
Ability to travel between sites and attend meetings across locations as needed; occasional schedule flexibility may be required.
Ability to meet the physical demands of occasional lifting of up to 15 pounds and extended periods of sitting, standing, and computer use.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree.
Experience in healthcare, behavioral health, community health, public health, rural health, or human services.
Experience with grant-funded initiatives, grant reporting, quality improvement, workflow implementation, technology or data projects, or organizational change.
Experience with rural health transformation, care coordination, population health, data governance, quality reporting, healthcare analytics, or enterprise data platforms.
Experience implementing dashboards, data warehouses or data lakes, and redesigned clinical or operational workflows.
Knowledge of Washington State behavioral health systems and regulatory expectations.

Responsibilities

Maintain the integrated grant implementation plan, including milestones, accountable owners, dependencies, RACI assignments, schedules, resource needs, budgets, reporting requirements, success measures, and evidence of completion.
Manage the project life cycle from initiation and planning through implementation, operational transition, annual renewal activities, and grant closeout.
Maintain project documentation, including scope statements, schedules, action and decision logs, risk and issue registers, change-control records, meeting documentation, and deliverable evidence.
Coordinate governance and provide status updates, decision requests, and escalations to the Executive Vice President of Outpatient Services.
Ensure project tasks remain aligned with the approved RHT 6.2 and CCBHC Bridge Funding purpose and obtain documented approval before expanding beyond authorized scope.
Coordinate the design, documentation, training, implementation, and adoption of Same Day Access, referral, outreach, care-transition, and population-health workflows supporting rural access and care coordination.
Coordinate implementation and operational use of approved data infrastructure, including the Enterprise Data Warehouse/Data Lake, dashboards, reports, and data-validation processes.
Connect data and technology investments to care coordination, quality measurement, population health management, rural access monitoring, grant reporting, and certification evidence.
Facilitate workflow design, testing, training, adoption monitoring, and corrective action for approved grant-funded processes and tools.
Confirm completed work has named operational owners, documented procedures, defined review schedules, and escalation pathways before transition to routine operations.
Maintain a crosswalk linking funded activities and deliverables to applicable CCBHC certification criteria, contract expectations, quality measures, and organizational readiness needs.
Coordinate evidence repositories for workflows, policies, data validation, dashboards, corrective actions, training records, and grant deliverables.
Support audit, monitoring, certification, and grant-review readiness by keeping requested documentation current, organized, traceable, and available to authorized reviewers.
Use approved performance information to identify implementation gaps and coordinate corrective-action plans with accountable owners and due dates.
Protect confidential and sensitive information and follow organizational privacy, security, records-management, and grant-documentation requirements.
Coordinate clinical, operational, quality, finance, information systems, data, human resources, compliance, communications, and executive stakeholders according to the approved project plan.
Facilitate EOS, steering-committee, project, implementation workgroup, decision, and barrier-resolution discussions, with clear agendas, decisions, owners, and follow-up.
Prepare recurring EOS and steering-committee reports, executive summaries, milestone reports, budget updates, risk and issue summaries, corrective-action updates, adoption results, and recommendations for leadership review.
Manage communication with contractors, consultants, vendors, and community partners when their work is included in the approved grant scope.
Promote shared understanding of grant goals, responsibilities, timelines, dependencies, reporting expectations, and expected outcomes.
Track milestones, workflow documentation, training, adoption, expenditures, outcomes, and evidence; maintain risk, issue, decision, corrective-action, adoption, and deliverable-evidence logs with accountable owners and follow-up dates.
Align workforce, workflow, Data Warehouse/Data Lake, CCBHC readiness, rural access, care coordination, and sustainability activities with approved grant scope and annual funding requirements.
Maintain sustainability and operational transition plans for major grant-funded activities before the applicable funding period ends.