Sr Project Specialist- Epic Healthy Planet Certified- Kelsey-Seybold Clinic - Pearland Texas

Join Kelsey-Seybold Clinic

Explore opportunities with Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, part of the Optum family of businesses. Work with one of the nation's leading health care organizations and build your career at one of our 40+ locations throughout Houston. Be part of a team that is nationally recognized for delivering coordinated and accountable care. As a multi-specialty clinic, we offer care from more than 900 medical providers in 65 medical specialties.

Take on a rewarding opportunity to help drive higher quality, higher patient satisfaction and lower total costs. Join us and discover the meaning behind Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Top-level technical expert in one or more highly specialized areas of application, systems analysis, and programming. Acts independently with very little direction. May have duties, such as instructing or leading project application teams. May be asked to work with KS Executive management, in. Shares knowledge and learning with others. Provides technical leadership on complex projects. May act as an expert in a business or functional area.

Keeps abreast of new technology. Formulates/defines system scope and objectives. Has full technical knowledge of all phases of application systems analysis. Assists client departments in identifying and designing opportunities for operational improvement, which can be enabled by, improved systems configuration, deployment, acquisition, or development. Provides project management and direction for system related projects. Performs configuration changes and system setup to ensure scope and quality of product.

This position plays a key role in advancing population health and value-based care initiatives by designing, optimizing, and maintaining Healthy Planet tools within Epic. This position supports quality improvement, care management workflows, and payer-specific analytics and reporting, with a focus on improving outcomes, closing care gaps, and supporting performance under value-based contracts. The analyst collaborates closely with clinical, care management, quality, and operational stakeholders to ensure accurate data capture, actionable insights, seamless workflows, and compliance with NCQA certified HEDIS measures.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Healthy Planet Configuration & Optimization
• Value-Based Care Analytics
• Population Health Strategy
• Project Management
• Teamwork
• System Development
• System Support
• Proficiency
• Communication/Customer Relations
• Optimization
• Interpersonal Skills
• Vendor Relationship
• Budget
• Reliability
• Certifications
• Other duties as assigned

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical/application area or 4+ years equivalent work experience
• Epic Systems Healthy Planet Certification or be able to attain within 12 months of being hired
• 4+ years of experience in applicable healthcare or business operations unit, utilizing Healthy Planet or other KSC healthcare applications
• 4+ years of systems experience with development, analysis, installation and support
• Solid understanding of clinicalworkflows, care management processes, project management experience in IT, and population health programs
• Proven technical and analytical aptitude for multiple application points of integration
• Proven report writing capability
• Proven communication, presentation, project management, problem-solving, and technical skills are also
• Ability to assume more than one role on the team
• Ability to travel occasionally
• Valid Texas Driver's License

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in related field
• Epic Systems certification in one or more applications
• 7+ years of experience in applicable healthcare business operations
• 4+ years or project management/lead experience in IT

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