Health Strategy Consultant

Job Family:

Management Consulting

Travel Required:

Up to 25%

Clearance Required:

Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do:

A career within Guidehouse Health will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients transform care delivery and health care operations. We focus on the operations and performance of mission-oriented agencies, academic medical centers and commercial health care enterprises, to plan and drive change that enables best-in-class outcomes.

Our Health Informatics and Technology Consultants help federal health clients plan and manage complex initiatives, support executive decision-making, and advance the effective implementation and optimization of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems and related digital health capabilities.

As a Consultant II, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team with extensive consulting, health care, and technology experience. You will provide project management and executive-level support, translate health informatics and EHR concepts into actionable guidance, and help clients deliver complex digital health initiatives on schedule and in alignment with mission priorities.

Specific responsibilities include:

Project Management and Delivery

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, resource needs, risks, issues, decisions, and measures of success for federal health and digital health initiatives.
• Coordinate activities across technical, clinical, operational, policy, and communications workstreams to keep deliverables aligned, 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 practical mitigation strategies and recommendations for client leadership.

Executive-Level Support and Stakeholder Engagement

• Provide direct support to senior executives by developing decision briefs, executive summaries, talking points, presentations, meeting materials, read-ahead packages, and recommendations.
• Synthesize complex program, clinical, technical, and operational information into concise, decision-ready products tailored to executive audiences.
• Prepare leaders for governance meetings, stakeholder engagements, and high-priority discussions by coordinating inputs, anticipating questions, and identifying decisions or actions required.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with client executives, clinical and technical subject matter experts, program offices, vendors, and other internal and external stakeholders.

Health Informatics and Electronic Health Records

• Apply health informatics knowledge to support the planning, implementation, optimization, governance, and evaluation of EHR and digital health capabilities.
• Collaborate with clinicians, informaticists, technologists, operational leaders, and vendors to translate user needs into clear requirements, priorities, and actionable recommendations.
• Support change management, stakeholder readiness, and adoption activities associated with EHR implementations and other enterprise health information technology initiatives.
• Promote consistent project management practices, clear documentation, and effective knowledge transfer across multidisciplinary teams.

Program Operations, Analysis, and Reporting

• 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.

Team Collaboration and Practice Development

• Contribute to a collaborative, high-performing consulting team by supporting business development growth, internal Guidehouse initiatives, and mentoring junior team members, as appropriate.

What You Will Need:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Health Informatics, Health Information Management, Health Administration, Public Health, Business, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum of THREE (3) 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 while collaborating effectively with clients, executives, clinicians, technical teams, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Experience supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), 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 is a plus.

Master's degree in Health Informatics, Health Information Management, Health Administration, Public Health, B

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays

• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Basic Life & Supplemental Life

• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability

• Student Loan PayDown

• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities

• Skills Development & Certifications

• Employee Referral Program

• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach

• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program

• Mobility Stipend

About Guidehouse

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