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About the Role

The Planning Manager supports sub-regional planning for an assigned health system, driving the execution of planning frameworks and implementation strategies across clinical, behavioral health, and community-based partners. This role is dedicated to planning and implementation projects led by Care Compass through the NYS DOH Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP). The manager brings knowledge of health system structure, transformational change, regional partner relationships, and stakeholder alignment to ensure coordinated regional planning and sustainable progress.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Care Compass relationship manager and point of coordination for assigned health system(s).
• Develop trusted relationships with executive, clinical, IT/data, workforce, finance, and other key stakeholders to support RHTP planning and implementation.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of assigned health system priorities, organizational structure, capabilities, competing priorities, challenges, existing initiatives, and key personnel.
• Coordinate RHTP planning activities between assigned health system(s), Care Compass, external partners, and the RHTP Regional Planning Council.
• Organize meetings, facilitate discussions, gather input, and translate partner feedback into clearly defined planning needs and next steps.
• Serve as an internal quarterback for assigned health system(s) and partners, connecting them with appropriate Care Compass subject matter experts.
• Ensure information related to workforce, technology, data, care delivery, finance, community services, and other initiatives reaches the appropriate teams.
• Support the development and implementation of regional initiatives by coordinating partner participation.
• Ensure appropriate stakeholders have been identified and engaged.
• Support the resolution of implementation barriers with implementation team(s).
• Maintain consistent two-way communication between Care Compass, assigned Health System(s), and other partners.
• Ensure priorities, decisions, concerns, opportunities, program updates, deadlines, or changing priorities are accurately communicated, documented, and escalated when appropriate.
• Identify opportunities where health system priorities may benefit from regional collaboration, shared infrastructure, community partnerships, or coordinated solutions.
• Bring identified opportunities forward to the Director and appropriate Care Compass teams for evaluation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Health Administration, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum of 4–5 years of experience in health care, community health, or program coordination, preferably in a rural health or regional network setting.
• Demonstrated experience in stakeholder engagement, partner management, and facilitation of multi-organizational workgroups.
• Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple deliverables and deadlines across sub-regions.
• Experience coordinating data collection activities and working with diverse data sources including public health, hospital, and social care data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate complex program requirements for diverse audiences.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams).
• Familiarity with project management tools preferred.
• Ability to travel within the assigned sub-region for partner and network meetings.

Skills

• Health system structure
• Transformational change
• Regional partner relationships
• Stakeholder alignment
• Stakeholder engagement
• Partner management
• Facilitation of multi-organizational workgroups
• Organizational skills
• Project management skills
• Data collection coordination
• Working with diverse data sources (public health, hospital, social care)
• Written communication
• Verbal communication
• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)
• Project management tools

Location

• Assigned sub-region

Work Type

• Travel within assigned sub-region

Experience Level

• 4-5 years of experience

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree
• Master's degree preferred