Consultant - Rural Healthcare Business Development | Arkansas

Avem Health Partners; Arkansas; On-site; USD 50,000 - 90,000; Part time

Job summary

AVEM Health Partners in Arkansas seeks an experienced rural healthcare consultant to open doors and build lasting relationships across CAHs and rural hospitals. The ideal candidate connects with hospital CEOs, administrators, board members, physicians, and other decision-makers, facilitating 1–2 face-to-face meetings monthly.

You will identify opportunities for strategic partnerships, management arrangements, or affiliations, and provide market intelligence to AVEM.

Qualifications

• Establish relationships with CAH and rural hospital leadership.
• Direct access to hospital CEOs, administrators and decision-makers.
• Strong knowledge of Arkansas rural healthcare landscape.
• Credibility within the rural healthcare community.

Responsibilities

• Open doors and build relationships with rural hospitals and CAHs.
• Identify hospitals/CAHs suitable for AVEM and connect with leadership.
• Facilitate 1–2 face-to-face meetings per month with rural hospital leadership.
• Introduce AVEM's capabilities and rural healthcare partnership model.
• Develop trusted, long-term relationships with hospital leadership.
• Identify potential strategic partnerships, management arrangements, or affiliations.
• Provide AVEM with market intelligence and relationship insights.

Skills

Relationship building

Healthcare industry knowledge

Business development

Strategic partnerships

Executive stakeholder management

Job description

Consultant – Rural Healthcare Business Development | ArkansasAVEM Health Partners is seeking an experienced rural healthcare consultant/business development professional with strong relationships across the Arkansas rural healthcare and Critical Access Hospital (CAH) community.AVEM has been providing quality healthcare to rural America for more than 15 years. We are now expanding our rural healthcare strategy into Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas and are looking for a well-connected individual who can help us build meaningful relationships in these markets.What You'll DoThe primary responsibility is simple:Open doors and build relationships.We are looking for someone who can:• Identify rural hospitals and CAHs that may be appropriate for AVEM• Connect directly with hospital CEOs, administrators, board members, physicians, and other key decision-makers• Facilitate 1–2 face-to-face meetings each month with rural hospital leadership• Introduce AVEM's capabilities and rural healthcare partnership model• Develop trusted, long-term relationships with hospital leadership• Identify organizations that may be considering strategic partnerships, management arrangements, affiliations, or other opportunities• Provide AVEM with relevant market intelligence and relationship insightsWho We're Looking ForThe ideal candidate is already well connected in Arkansas rural healthcare.You should have:• Established relationships with CAH and rural hospital leadership• Direct access to CEOs, administrators, and other decision-makers• Strong knowledge of the Arkansas rural healthcare landscape• Credibility within the rural healthcare community• Excellent relationship-building and communication skills• The ability to represent AVEM professionally and authenticallyThis is not a traditional research or report-writing consulting role. We are looking for someone whose relationships, credibility, and ability to create access can help AVEM establish a meaningful presence in the Arkansas rural healthcare market.About AVEMAVEM Health Partners is committed to strengthening rural healthcare and helping rural hospitals deliver sustainable, high-quality care to the communities they serve.Our goal is to build lasting partnerships—not simply transactions.If you have deep relationships within Arkansas rural healthcare and believe you can help open the right doors, we'd like to hear from you.Location: ArkansasEngagement: Consulting / Part-timeFocus: Rural Healthcare | Critical Access Hospitals | Business Development | Strategic Partnerships