Health Strategy Consultant

Guidehouse Inc.; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidehouse Health is seeking a Consultant II to join our Health Informatics and Technology practice in the Washington, DC region. You will work on federated teams to plan, manage, and deliver complex digital health initiatives, including EHR optimization, governance, and stakeholder communications.

You will translate clinical and technical requirements into actionable guidance for executives, coordinate cross-functional efforts, and support senior leaders with decision-ready analyses and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in health informatics or related field.
• At least three years of project or program management experience in healthcare or IT.
• Experience providing executive-level support (briefings, summaries, materials).
• Strong written and verbal communication, facilitation, and analytics.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, Teams).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans and governance documents.
• Coordinate activities across clinical, operational, policy, and communications workstreams.
• Prepare executive-level materials and briefings for governance meetings.
• Support analytics, reporting, and performance monitoring.
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to practice development.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Executive-level support

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Health Informatics

Tools

Microsoft Office

SharePoint

Teams

PowerPoint

Job description

Job Family : Management Consulting

Travel Required : Up to 25%

Clearance Required : Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do:

A career within Guidehouse Health will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients transform care delivery and health care operations. We focus on the operations and performance of mission-oriented agencies, academic medical centers and commercial health care enterprises, to plan and drive change that enables best-in-class outcomes.

Our Health Informatics and Technology Consultants help federal health clients plan and manage complex initiatives, support executive decision-making, and advance the effective implementation and optimization of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems and related digital health capabilities.

As a Consultant II , you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team with extensive consulting, health care, and technology experience. You will provide project management and executive-level support, translate health informatics and EHR concepts into actionable guidance, and help clients deliver complex digital health initiatives on schedule and in alignment with mission priorities.

Specific responsibilities include:

Project Management and Delivery

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, resource needs, risks, issues, decisions, and measures of success for federal health and digital health initiatives.
• Coordinate activities across technical, clinical, operational, policy, and communications workstreams to keep deliverables aligned, resolve dependencies, and support timely execution.
• Facilitate project governance, working sessions, and status reviews; document decisions and action items; and drive follow-through with accountable owners.
• Identify and elevate delivery risks, scope changes, and emerging issues, and develop practical mitigation strategies and recommendations for client leadership.

Executive-Level Support and Stakeholder Engagement

• Provide direct support to senior executives by developing decision briefs, executive summaries, talking points, presentations, meeting materials, read-ahead packages, and recommendations.
• Synthesize complex program, clinical, technical, and operational information into concise, decision-ready products tailored to executive audiences.
• Prepare leaders for governance meetings, stakeholder engagements, and high-priority discussions by coordinating inputs, anticipating questions, and identifying decisions or actions required.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with client executives, clinical and technical subject matter experts, program offices, vendors, and other internal and external stakeholders.

Health Informatics and Electronic Health Records

• Apply health informatics knowledge to support the planning, implementation, optimization, governance, and evaluation of EHR and digital health capabilities.
• Collaborate with clinicians, informaticists, technologists, operational leaders, and vendors to translate user needs into clear requirements, priorities, and actionable recommendations.
• Support change management, stakeholder readiness, and adoption activities associated with EHR implementations and other enterprise health information technology initiatives.
• Promote consistent project management practices, clear documentation, and effective knowledge transfer across multidisciplinary teams.

Program Operations, Analysis, and Reporting

• Develop and maintain project management tools, including status reports, dashboards, schedules, risk and issue logs, decision logs, action trackers, requirements traceability tools, and executive reporting materials.
• Monitor scope, schedule, quality, dependencies, and performance indicators; identify trends and provide data-informed recommendations to improve delivery and outcomes.

Team Collaboration and Practice Development

• Contribute to a collaborative, high-performing consulting team by supporting business development growth, internal Guidehouse initiatives, and mentoring junior team members, as appropriate.

What You Will Need:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Health Informatics, Health Information Management, Health Administration, Public Health, Business, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum of THREE (3) years of experience supporting project or program management in health care, health information technology, management consulting, or a related environment.
• Experience providing executive-level support, including preparing briefings, presentations, decision materials, executive summaries, meeting materials, and status reports for senior leaders.
• Strong analytical, writing, facilitation, and communication skills, including the ability to translate complex clinical, technical, and operational information for executive and nontechnical audiences.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, and Teams.
• Ability to work indepen