About the Role
OrthoAlaska has been awarded federal funding under Alaska's Rural Health Transformation Program to do something that has not been attempted at scale by an independent practice in this state: build the infrastructure to move rural primary care away from fee-for-service and toward payment models that reward keeping people healthy.
The AVPCO Project Manager runs that effort. It is a builder's job rather than a caretaker's. Nothing exists yet — no team, no vendor relationships, no data infrastructure. Over eight months you will hire and lead a community health worker team, procure and manage an actuarial engagement, stand up quality reporting across our EHR, and open contracting conversations with Alaska's largest employers and commercial payers.
What You Will Do
Lead the program
- Own delivery across three workstreams: value-based contract development, community health worker outreach, and data infrastructure
- Hire, train, and supervise three Community Health Workers
- Maintain the project plan, track milestones, and escalate risks to the COO before they become problems
- Convene a monthly internal review with organizational leadership
Build the contracting foundation
- Manage the competitive procurement and ongoing engagement of an actuarial firm developing bundled payment models
- Coordinate with legal counsel on employer direct contracting templates and performance guarantee structures
- Lead outreach to self-insured Alaska employers including state government, municipalities, oil and gas operators, and school districts
- Open and advance conversations with commercial payers
Stand up community outreach
- Design outreach protocols, caseload assignment, and escalation pathways for a panel of 450 to 600 high-risk patients
- Plan and execute community screening events in Soldotna, Kodiak, Wasilla, and Palmer
- Monitor outreach volume, care gap closure, and patient engagement, and adjust the approach based on what the data shows
Build the data layer
- Work with our EHR team and NextGen to develop quality dashboards tracking HbA1c control, blood pressure control, and preventive screening completion
- Lead engagement with the Alaska Health Information Exchange on data sharing and interoperability
- Establish automated care gap reporting that feeds community health worker caseloads
Keep us compliant
- Prepare and submit quarterly reports to the Alaska Department of Health
- Work with the Accounting Manager on monthly budget-to-actual review and quarterly financial reconciliation
- Ensure all procurement follows OrthoAlaska's federal procurement policy and is properly documented
- Identify when prior State approval is required — scope changes, key personnel changes, significant budget transfers — and secure it before acting
- Author the Year 1 annual report
What We Are Looking For
Required
- Five or more years managing complex projects, preferably in healthcare, public health, or a grant-funded setting
- Experience managing federal or state grant compliance and reporting
- Demonstrated ability to manage vendors and contractors, including competitive procurement
- Supervisory experience
- Strong written communication — you will be writing documents that regulators and payers read
- Comfort with healthcare data and the judgment to know when a number is telling you something real
- Willingness to travel to rural Alaska communities, occasionally overnight
Strongly preferred
- Familiarity with value-based care, alternative payment models, or ACO operations
- Working knowledge of EHR systems, particularly NextGen
- Experience with 2 CFR Part 200 or comparable federal grant requirements
- Prior work in Alaska, or demonstrated understanding of rural Alaska healthcare delivery
- Experience launching a program rather than inheriting one
What Will Make You Successful Here
This project runs eight months and the clock is already going. We need someone who moves — who can hold three workstreams in their head, make decisions without waiting for perfect information, and tell leadership early when something is not working.
You will spend your time with clinical staff, finance, vendors, state agency contacts, and employer benefits managers. The ability to move between those audiences and be credible with each matters more than deep expertise in any one of them.
Important information about this position
This position is funded by a federal grant through June 30, 2027. Continuation beyond that date depends on renewed federal funding, which is not guaranteed. OrthoAlaska will communicate openly about funding status throughout.
OrthoAlaska is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.