About Sellers Dorsey

Sellers Dorsey is a leading and fast-growing national healthcare consulting firm specializing in Medicaid financing, policy, and operations. We deliver impactful outcomes for our clients with a combination of technical expertise and deep understanding of public policy, government, and national and local political landscape. Together with its clients, Sellers Dorsey realizes opportunities that enhance the bottom-line and ultimately improve the lives of people and is committed to expanding access to healthcare in the US. 

Our National Medicaid Financing Practice (NMF) works with clients such as states, counties, health systems, safety net hospitals, academic medical centers, physicians, nursing facilities and medical schools navigate the opportunities to strengthen their Medicaid business through the conception, creation and implementation of programs designed to increase Medicaid reimbursement and leverage their unique capacities to deliver on the quality and value propositions growing in Medicaid.  Our teams work together to ensure that technical, policy and political solutions are created to ensure successful results for our clients, particularly in the area of Medicaid financing. 

About the Role

Sellers Dorsey is seeking a Senior Consultant who will provide project management to support for a portfolio that involves financial and policy initiatives connected to supplemental payment projects contained within the National Medicaid Finance (NMF) portfolio, working on an initiative that benefits all Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC). As the Senior Consultant for FQHC, you will help develop project plans, timelines, and strategies to move projects forward and work with a project team to implement these plans and track progress. You will participate in client meetings and coordinate with the project team to complete key deliverable tasks, project milestones and corresponding deadlines associated with client engagements. You will also utilize project management software (e.g., Asana) to maintain and update project plans including tasks, deliverables, resource assignments, milestones, and timelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Focus on project management, including scheduling, creating agendas, drafting necessary meeting materials, capturing salient points and next steps, distributing assignments to team members, tracking follow up items, and ensuring that deadlines and assignments are accomplished in a timely and complete manner.
• Provide project management support to internal initiatives to support knowledge management, training initiatives, recruiting and others as identified. Many of these are new initiatives that will require initial support to launch, including the identification of stakeholder needs and support processes.
• Develop and maintain a detailed, comprehensive project plan to monitor project milestones and deliverables. Manage strategic approach outlined by project team and ongoing implementation of projects.
• Writes various documents to contextualize technical information into understandable narratives.
• Anticipates, escalates, and proposes solutions for service, quality, or risk issues.

Key Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Public Policy, Public Administration, Public Health, Health Administration. Advanced degree in Public Policy, Public Administration, Public Health, Health Administration, business, economics, or MBA preferred (or additional relevant experience in lieu of such advanced degree).
• Experience with Federally Qualified Health Centers required.
• 5-7 or more combined years in a policy or healthcare management role and/or in consulting, healthcare industry required.
• 5-7 years of progressively responsible work experience is required, preferably in health or human services policy research, consulting and/or in a healthcare service delivery environment, or in consulting or operational experience in health care and/or health policy research/analysis.
• Previous project/task management experience strongly desired; attention to detail, a must.
• Experience delivering services on several projects simultaneously.
• Experience with Medicaid preferred.
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Share Point.

Other Requirements

• Excellent oral and written communication skills including relaying complex technical terms in an easy-to-understand manner.
• Ability to interact professionally with clients and other outside audiences. 
• Experience organizing and coordinating the work of others.
• Professional writing experience highly desirable. 
• Previous project/task management experience strongly desired; attention to detail, a must.
• The ability to work independently and in teams.
• Experience delivering services on several projects simultaneously.
• Time management skills. 
• Willingness to travel.

Compensation & Benefits 

The anticipated salary range for candidates is $79,200/year in our lowest geographic market range to up to $115,000/year in our highest geographic market range. The final pay offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to the type and years of experience within the job, the type of years and experience within the industry, the candidate’s education, and the candidate’s market location. Typically, candidates are not hired near the top of the range and compensation decisions are made based upon Sellers Dorsey’s Total Compensation Policies & Guidelines. The successful candidate will also be eligible to participate in our annual Corporate Incentive Plan (CIP) that can range to up to 7% of annual salary. 

Provided they meet all eligibility requirements under the applicable plan documents, the successful candidate (and their eligible dependents) will be eligible to enroll in group healthcare plans that offer medical, dental, and vision and for insurance plans offering short term disability, long term disability, and basic life. Employees are also able to enroll in Sellers Dorsey’s 401k plan provided they meet plan requirements.  Sellers Dorsey offers a Flexible Time Off that allows employees to use what they need. Additionally, we offer 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, paid time off for qualifying medical leave, and up to 12 weeks of combined paid parental and bonding leave. The foregoing benefits and paid time off, including an employee’s eligibility therefore, will be controlled by applicable plan documents and Sellers Dorsey policy. 

This is intended to provide a general description of benefits and other compensation and is not a substitute for applicable plan documents or company policies. 

Sellers Dorsey is an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at reasonableaccommodations@sellersdorsey.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address. For more information, view the EEO is the Law Poster and Pay Transparency Statement.

This position requires that you be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Requests for reasonable accommodation on the basis of disability and/or sincerely held religious beliefs will be provided subject to undue hardship.

Sellers Dorsey maintains a Drug-Free workplace.