Workforce Development Program Manager & Career Coach (Health Care Instructional Leadership)

COPE Health Solutions; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness stipend

Paid parental leave

Job summary

COPE Health Solutions is seeking a Program Manager to independently maintain day-to-day operations at multiple Health Scholar sites, serving as a key link between participants, internal teams, and hospital/health system clients. The role involves recruitment, supervision of 50–200 scholars, and ensuring smooth program operations across sites.

The position reports to the Regional Manager, with up to 80% travel and a full-time schedule in Woodland Hills, CA.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 1–2+ years of work experience strongly preferred.
• Passion for student teaching, mentoring and development.
• Strong project and people management skills; experience managing large group strongly preferred.
• Recruitment experience preferred; comfortable recruiting and networking is required.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio).

Responsibilities

• Actively recruit and ensure a strong pipeline of diverse Health Scholar candidates by attending recruitment events and engaging campus centers, professors and student organizations.
• Provide direct supervision to programparticipants (typically 50-200) as the sole Program Manager at client site, including mentorship and development opportunities.
• Manage and improve on-site program operations, including quarterly training, meetings, and major projects.
• Build and manage relationships with hospital client executives and staff for ongoing and future growth.
• Conduct analyses on program metrics to report impact, risks, and value to client partners.
• Plan for future client growth by opening additional rotations with client executives.
• Engage with Account Principal to pursue value-added services for clients.
• Support business development through market research and BD collateral.
• Identify and mitigate risks by addressing complaints from clients, staff and participants.

Skills

Recruitment experience

Project management

People management

Communication skills

Independent work

MS Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

The Program Manager independently maintains the day-to-day operations at multiple Health Scholar sites, located at any of our hospital or ambulatory care center clients. The Program Manager serves as a vital link between Health Scholar program participants, our internal team, and the client, ensuring program operations run smoothly. The ideal candidate has the adaptability and enthusiasm to excel across a wide range of responsibilities, from ensuring Scholars have an excellent program experience, to maintaining and exceeding student recruitment goals, and building strong relationships with our hospital and health system client executives. This position is a fantastic opportunity for those interested in the intersection of health care delivery, student mentorship, and program administration.

To hear one of our Program Managers speak about the Health Scholar program in more detail, you can watch a brief video produced by one of our hospital clients here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syfH6x_n-hY.

FLSA Status: Exempt

Salary Range: $70,304 - $74,664

Reports To: Regional Manager

Direct Reports: None

Location: Woodland Hills, CA

Travel: Up to 80%

Work Type: Regular

Schedule: Full-Time

Position Description:

• Actively recruit and ensure a strong pipeline of diverse Health Scholar candidates on an ongoing basis by attending recruitment events such as fairs and presentations, cultivating relationships with campus career centers, professors, counselors and others, engaging student organizations through presentations, flyersand other potential opportunities
• Provide direct supervision to programparticipants (typically 50-200), as the sole Program Manager at client site, including providing mentorship, coaching and professional development opportunities
• Manage and actively improve or implement on-site program operations at client site, including quarterly training for scholars, departmental operations, scholar recruitment activities, facilitating meetings and professional development workshops, and major projects such as seasonal programs
• Build and manage relationships with key hospital client executives and staff to ensure ongoing success of current programs and future growth through regular meetings, committees, daily rounding
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses on program metrics to effectively report service line impact, risks to clients, and to identify opportunities demonstrate value to client partner
• Plan for future client growth by raising opportunities for opening additional clinical and administrative departments for participant rotations with client executives, as appropriate
• Engage with Account Principal and other team members to identify and pursue opportunities to add value to client through value-based payment, population health management, PMO, Process Improvement or other services offered by our firm
• Support firm wide business development through activities such as participating in market research or contributing to an article or other BD collateral
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks by addressing complaints or concerns from clients, staff and/or program participants. Risks may include HIPAA issues, compliance, background checks, policy violations and more. Elevate high risk complaints or concerns to management
• As time and program performance allow, engage as a billable team member for consulting projects engaged with the client
• Display sound judgement, professionalism, and strong conflict-resolution skills, modeling these behaviors for our program participants
• Ensure compliance with all local, state and federal regulations, client site‑specific policies and ethical standards
• Carry out all other responsibilities, tasks and projects as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 1-2+ years of work experience strongly preferred
• Passion for student teaching, mentoring and development
• Strong project and people management skills; experience managing large group strongly preferred
• Recruitment experience preferred; comfortable recruiting and networking is required
• Valid driver's license and reliable transportation
• Experience and interest in health care a plus
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
• Able to work well independently; the role requires you to work directly at the client site as the sole Program Manager
• Available to participate in regional trainings that occur during the evenings and on some weekends (typically 1-2 weekends every month)
• Ability to travel to corporate office in downtown Los Angeles occasionally
• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio)

Benefits:

As a firm passionate about health care, we’re deeply committed to the health and wellness of our own team members. We offer comprehensive, affordable insurance plans for our team and their families, and a host of other unique benefits, such as a yearly stipend for wellness‑related activities, and a paid parental leave program. You can learn more about our benefits offerings here: https://copehealthsolutions.com/careers/

About Health Scholar

Health Scholar is COPE Health Solutions’ health care workforce development program, connecting aspiring health professionals with experiential learning opportunities in hospitals and other care settings. In collaboration with health care partners, the program recruits, prepares and supports participants through structured training, supervised clinical exposure and professional development. Health Scholar helps participants explore health care careers while supporting partner organizations’ workforce pipelines, patient experience and long‑term talent development.

About COPE Health Solutions

COPE Health Solutions is a national tech‑enabled services firm powering success for health plans and for providers in risk arrangements. Our comprehensive NCQA certified population health management platform and highly experienced team brings deep expertise, experience, proven tools, and processes to improve financial performance and quality outcomes for all types of payers and providers. CHS de‑risks the roadmap to advanced value‑based payment and improves quality and financial performance for providers, health plans and self‑insured employers. For more information, visit https://copehealthsolutions.com/about-us/