Community Engagement Manager

AbsoluteCARE Medical Center & Pharmacy; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

AbsoluteCARE Medical Center & Pharmacy seeks a Community Engagement Manager to oversee engagement teams, aligning them with care team objectives to improve health outcomes and reduce costs.

The role focuses on member outreach, service connections, and addressing social barriers to care, with KPI-driven leadership across multiple departments in a matrixed organization.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of management experience required.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• 2+ years of experience working within community agencies or healthcare field.
• Proven accountability for a team achieving KPIs.
• Experience using electronic medical records and/or clinical management platforms.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagement teams and align around priorities and KPIs.
• Provide critical reasoning and problem-solving to address risks and prevent issues.
• Manage individual performance through coaching and action plans.
• Track and report KPI performance and drive improvement actions.
• Collaborate with shared services to implement consistent processes.
• Train and reinforce new processes, metrics, and tools across teams.
• Delegate tasks and ensure timely delivery of outcomes.
• Lead weekly team meetings and bi-weekly progress reviews.

Skills

People management

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Communication

Organizational skills

MS Office

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Excel

Job description

• Salary Range: $85-$90K

Job Summary

The Community Engagement Manager role oversees critical engagement team members that are aligned around engaging our membership with care teams and services to achieve improved healthcare outcomes, and reduced cost. This important role will be instrumental in creating and leading a team culture focused on our mission and the members we serve. The teams under the Community Engagement Manager will focus on finding members, new member engagement and ongoing member engagement and relationship building, connecting members to services and identify and addressing social service needs and barriers to care. Each team has its own Key Performance Indicators, and the Community Engagement Manager will be responsible for ensuring that each department is achieving its goals.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for team management including hiring, promoting, retaining, and disciplinary action for engagement team, utilizing AbsoluteCare's values as guidelines in a matrixed, cross-functional organization.


• Provide excellent critical reasoning, decision-making, and problem-solving skills to analyze situations, determine risks, and find solutions to prevent future issues and recurring defects for team


• Ownership for individual level performance management through tracking and reporting of key performance indicators, quality measures, observation, one-on-one coaching and feedback and corrective action plans where needed.


• Leverage data, key performance indicators, quality metrics and reporting to track leading and outcome performance indicators and ensure all teams are achieving expectations; identify and drive actions to address gaps in performance.


• Collaborate with shared services leadership to understand program(s) process, technology, expectations, and implement consistently across engagement teams within market.


• Reinforce shared services training of new processes, expectations, metrics, technology, etc., ensuring consistency and compliance of team.


• Identify opportunities for team, process and technology improvements and leverage critical reasoning, decision-making, and problem-solving skills to resolve.


• Work collaboratively across market and shared services leaders to drive outcomes, identify challenges, improve processes and create a culture of teamwork.


• Manage and delegate team assignments and work queues and ensure that each team achieves respective outcomes.


• Lead weekly team meetings to align around priorities, key performance indicators and goals.


• Meet with Manager at least bi-weekly regarding progress and barriers to success of operations, key performance indicators, progress toward goals and team engagement.


• Administer any staff bonus programs tied to enrollment.


• Ensure teams are properly documenting and reporting in appropriate technology system(s).

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years previous management experience required, leading teams across multiple functions or processes preferred.


• Bachelor's degree required


• 2+ years of experience required working within community agencies or healthcare field.


• Proven experience of accountability for a team achieving key performance indicators


• Previous experience using electronic medical records and/or clinical management platforms


• Excellent computer skills including knowledge of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and different databases.


• Excellent organizational skills, ability to multi-task, self-motivated and able to work in a fast-paced environment.


• Passionate about serving the under-served.


• Must have own transportation.

Working conditions

This job operates in the community and within a professional office environment. This role requires reliable personal transportation to travel to member homes, community settings, and the AbsoluteCare office; routinely uses general office equipment.

Physical requirements

• Ability to communicate clearly and exchange accurate information constantly.


• Ability to travel, drive, walk within the community where members live daily.


• Ability to remain stationary for long periods of time.


• Constantly operates computer, keyboard, copy and fax machine, phone and other general office equipment.


• Operates a personal motor vehicle.


• Ability to occasionally move objects up to 20 lbs.

Direct reports

Community Health Worker and/or New Member Engagement teams. Lead or Supervisor titles (if applicable), optional Member Relations Coordinator