Senior Health Planning Consultant - Cornerstone Planning Group

Cornerstone Planning Group is growing and adding a Senior Health Planning Consultant to our team! We are looking for an experienced consultant who is driven to solve problems, complete quantitative and qualitative analysis, and lead client-facing healthcare projects with support from partners and other staff members. 

Cornerstone is a boutique consultancy located on Granville Island in a dog friendly office Vancouver, BC, Canada. Specializing in strategic planning for public sector organizations -- typically related to organizational design and infrastructure requirements -- our work emphasizes long-term planning and rigorous research into relevant trends and service demand patterns. Our work spans a wide variety of sectors, and facilities can include: hospitals, libraries, community centres, transitional housing, art and culture venues, theatres, schools and universities, clinics, offices, industrial workshops and yards, and more. About half of our projects are related to healthcare across portfolios, including the range of acute services, community health services, mental health and substance use, long term care, primary care, and supportive housing. Deep knowledge of the sector nuances combined with a data driven and systems-based approach are our competitive advantage. 

Our collaborative team is focused on providing exceptional service and value to our clients, continuously learning while supporting good vibes and overall company health. We provide a flexible and entrepreneurial environment where all team members have the ability to influence long-term, high-value impacts for our company, clients, and the wider world. 

Our Consultants typically work on 3-4 projects at a time (depending on size and scope), applying a logical and methodological approach with curiosity and care. We conduct detailed analysis using large data sets to create informed conclusions, while engaging with multiple stakeholders in-person or remotely at user-groups, board meetings, and other client presentations.

The Senior Health Planning Consultant will lead the development of complex health planning reports and play a key role in business development, as well. 

Responsibilities

Strategic Planning (80%):

• Understand the client’s key concerns and aspirations and establishing an approach that responds to them using knowledge of the sector.
• Articulate problems and developing comprehensive and effective analytic approaches to solve them, taking into account the quality and likely nuances of available data.
• Plan and conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis on large and sometimes abstract data sets in order to understand current state, project potential future states, and reach reliable conclusions.
• Recognize errors and outliers in methodology and data sets. Know when something’s not right, and work to fix it. 
• Able to create, justify, and accurately communicate reasonable assumptions applicable specifically to the healthcare field. Know what’s important and what isn’t.  
• Write clear and comprehensive reports to explain situations, processes, analytical and strategic approaches, findings, and conclusions. 
• Develop well-founded and useful recommendations based on analysis of clinical data, clinical flows, infrastructure evaluations, tours, relevant standards and best practices. 
• Develop relevant and beautiful graphics to convey key information in the clearest way possible.
• Project management: manage project scope, schedule, budgets and resources, internally and externally.
• Develop meeting agenda and materials, run meetings both internally and externally. 
• Consult with clients in a way that is fun, easy, relevant to the situation, and polite. 
• Keep up to date on innovations in healthcare, and with relevant standards and news items.

Business Development (20%):

• Clearly comprehend needs as described in procurement documents.  
• Lead proposal development, including development of creative and effective project approach and methodology, team, level of effort (hours), costs and expenses. 
• Write proposals to meet procurement requirements, selling our team, experience, and services.
• Support business development via attending and contributing to conferences, talks, articles, informational meetings, supporting external mentorship programs, etc. 
• Identify new business opportunities, leverage networks, and follow up.
• Initiate new and innovative approaches to project work.
• Maintaining follow up contacts with previous clients on a periodic basis.

Requirements

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor Degree required. Preferred background in clinical service planning, functional programming, health analytics, consulting, or project/program management in healthcare, with 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Proficiency in using MS Excel to manipulate and analyze large/complex data sets. Prior experience working with healthcare data sets, with preference for more advanced data processing techniques.
• Knowledge of the variety of health services in BC, including roles and responsibilities across the healthcare system. Exposure to acute clinical services an asset. 
• Familiar with relevant space and health planning standards and best practices including BCNU nursing ratios, CSA Z-8000, SpaceMed, and others. 
• Experience in project management, with PMP certification an asset.
• Experience in complex report development & presentation skills to a variety of audiences including physicians and clinical staff.
• Positive team player with strong written and verbal communication skills, high detail orientation, and dedication to service and quality. 
• Proven ability to make real connections with clients and maintain relationships past the end of projects. 

Benefits

We evaluate market rates using up to date market data to create salary bands for levels based on level of seniority and applicable experience. Our range for this senior role is $95k – $130k/year. We offer excellent benefits, flexible work environments, hybrid office structure, and the opportunity to be involved in excellent projects with impact.