Job Description

Use Your Strengths as a Health Equity & Improvement Manager at Wellmark for the state of Iowa!

About the opportunity:

Wellmark has an opportunity to collaborate with like-minded entities across the state of Iowa to build long-term, sustainable coalitions around initiatives - we are looking for the right team member to make this happen and help build upon our existing rural health equity strategy! As a member of the Health Equity/Access & Improvement team, you will actively research, assess and seek out best practices, organizations, and existing work expansion opportunities in an effort to address targeted social determinants of health in an impactful way within Iowa.

About you:

You are passionate about improving the health and well-being of others. You see yourself as a subject matter expert on Iowa’s health-related challenges and jump at any chance to foster relationships with various state and regional entities working to improve health outcomes. You are an organized and detail-oriented planner and utilize your data-driven research and analysis skills to build and execute strong evidence-based solutions. You are a confident and influential professional with strong written and verbal communication skills that aid you in consultation and collaboration with a wide variety of individuals. You love to educate and teach others to make a lasting and impactful difference in our communities!   Top candidates will have experience working on issues related to rural and/or minority health equity disparities in the state of Iowa.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or direct and applicable work experience.
• 5 years of related experience in both partnering with key stakeholders (e.g., state and regional government, business leaders, associations) and working with groups of professionals to achieve goals, as well as in working with state government and state and regional non-profit and funding organizations.
• Ability to connect disparate organizations and ideas which enable effective coalition building and sustainable collaborations to ensure project outcomes.
• Influencing and soliciting cooperation from local and statewide stakeholders. Must be able to understand the agenda and business models of other organizations. Ask meaningful questions, and distill information into actionable solutions.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to cultivate and manage key relationships. Professional, polished, and diplomatic in approach.
• Utilizing strong verbal and written communication skills to articulate accurate information to stakeholders, both internally and externally, including key decision makers and diverse audiences.
• Effective at delivering a presentation to a large audience to convey ideas, frameworks, and inspire action of others.
• Ability to understand and interpret data to support point of view and persuade stakeholders.
• Establish baseline measures and understand how to facilitate planned change and report outcomes.
• Being a self-starter working proactively and independently. Adaptable and flexible with changing priorities.
• Working strategically. Ability to support multiple projects to achieve short and long-term goals translating progress to internal stakeholders.
• Valid driver’s license. Ability to travel >35% including possible overnight or weekend stays.

Preferred:

• 10 years of related experience.
• Experience working on state and regional health equity and/or rural health issues as well as in developing positive relationships with state and regional entities working on health equity and/or rural health.