Health Center Controlled Network (HCCN) Project Manager

Louisiana Primary Care Association

Supervisor: Health Information Technology/Data Analytics and Research Program Manager

The HCCN Project Manager is responsible for grant program monitoring, compiling, and tracking activity, scheduling and participation efforts with HCCN Participating Health Centers (PHCs); maintaining ongoing deliverables matrices and functional feedback report cards for individual and network-wide aggregate goal reporting; and identifying gaps and priority measures to assist the HCCN team in assuring resources are allocated as efficiently as possible to fulfill HCCN deliverables.

• Serve as lead/team lead assigned to federal HCCN program grant writing applications
• Serve as resource to team projects, goals and objective identification from grant/project initiation to completion, being productive and cost-efficient, creating milestone schedules, assisting in compilation of draft project work plans and budgets, and preparing action reports for HCCN program updates and application cycles.
• Prepare compilation and completion of HCCN progress and PHC feedback reports, including creating surveys and maintaining project management reporting system databases.
• Develop and maintain HCCN T/TA programmatic registration and participation logs, set up webinar and on-site activities and agendas, and attend each as documentation monitor of participants and material discussed, which will provide a standardized mechanism to track progress of both Network activities and individual PHC work plans.
• Collect and monitor Smartsheet information for the HCCN grant application continuation submissions, update current goal percentages, and collect and compile qualitative and quantitative information from the health centers as needed for application and/or progress reporting processes.
• Develop and deploy bi-annual participating health center surveys which will be utilized in T/TA needs development and benchmarking of goals and activities.
• Collate information on each of the participating health centers for individual progress reports.
• Assist in completion of work plan activities as assigned by HCCN and/or Divisional Director(s) and team members, and identify gaps and priority measures to assist Directors in assuring resources are allocated as efficiently as possible.
• Prepare monthly (bi-monthly) Project Office update agenda utilizing updates from responsible staff for individual work plan goal areas.
• Facilitate EHR user-group forums to address PHC/HCCN issues, concerns and ability to serve as peer networking collaborator.
• Coordinate data compilation for presentation(s) as needed for HCCN reporting and HRSA site visits and/or audits.
• Support use of developing direct mail capabilities for PHCs that are not able to connect with an existing health information exchange; working with HCCN team and PHC members, assist in the development of a registry of direct mail addresses for all HCCN members and partner care delivery sites.
• Assist in the development of instructional tools and training programs that familiarize PHC staff with available provider/patient portal functions.
• Participate in core training and chronic care management best practices within community health center environments, exploring disease registry development, risk stratification and clinical decision support efforts with all internal divisions, relating to operational efficiencies and financial sustainability.
• Participate in team efforts which perform analytic functions to develop dashboards of key clinical and operational indicators that are available to practices.

• A master's degree in epidemiology or related field plus four years of professional level experience in epidemiology or related field.

• A master's degree in public health, which included twelve hours in epidemiology, biostatistics, tropical medicine, maternal and child health, occupational health, international health, community health, or any combination, will substitute for the master's degree in epidemiology only.
• A master's degree in nursing, a social science, a biological science, or a behavioral science, which included twelve semester hours in epidemiology and/or biostatistics or a combination, will substitute for the master's degree in epidemiology only.

Any college hours or degree must be from a school accredited by one of the following regional accrediting bodies: the Middle States Commission on Higher Education; the New England Commission of Higher Education; the Higher Learning Commission; the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities; the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools; and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.