Associate Consultant

Details

• Department: Strategic Integration

• Schedule: Full-Time, 8-hour day shift, Monday-Friday

• Location: Remote with 80% travel

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Various health insurance options & wellness plans

Retirement benefits including employer match plans

Long-term & short-term disability

Employee assistance programs (EAP)

Parental leave & adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Ways to give back to your community

_*Please note, benefits and benefits eligibility can vary by position, exclusions may apply for some roles (for example: Travel, PRN, Short-Term Option, etc.). Actual compensation offer will vary based upon role, education, experience, location, and qualifications. Connect with your Talent Advisor for additional specifics._

Responsibilities

As an Associate Consultant on the Strategic Integration Team at Ascension, you will support the organization by implementing national strategic and operational initiatives. Your work includes collaborating with executive stakeholders across all business areas to solve Ascension's most important and ambiguous problems. Your role requires exemplary critical thinking, relationship building, and organizational skills to analyze complex data to develop strategic and tactical approaches, bring together the vision of diverse stakeholder perspectives, and deliver results on time. Within the team, you will play an essential peer role in onboarding new associates.

Project Management and Change Management

• Support the implementations of new healthcare strategies and processes across Ascension of low to medium complexity by identifying critical next steps, tracking project tasks and goals to completion, and holding multiple stakeholders accountable.

• Assist in the design and execution of implementation and change management plans, including workstream development, formal and informal communications pathways, business transformation, end-user training, and success measurements.

Relationship Building

• Build relationships quickly by exhibiting executive presence among senior leaders, exceptional customer service, situational awareness, and proactive hospitality to all project stakeholders, including leaders, end-users, and external parties.

Deliverable Creation

• Develop business cases for national initiatives, including cost/benefit and pro forma financial analyses, persuasive funding justifications, and implementation schedules and strategies.

• Utilize internal and external data sources and research to drive project decision-making and implementation strategies.

• Prepare analyses and reports from various data sources that deliver insightful and easy to understand conclusions and recommendations to the target audience.

• Create, review, and present executive-level deliverables, including weekly project updates, status reports, and presentations on a workstream or project.

• Research and develop new and creative solutions to continually improve the team's processes and effectiveness across current and future initiatives.

People Management

• Assist in the onboarding process for new team members by serving as a peer partner, integrating them into the team culture, and transferring team and organizational knowledge.

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Requirements

Education

• High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree OR 4 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required.

Additional Preferences

No additional preferences.

Why Join Our Team

Ascension associates are key to our commitment of transforming healthcare and providing care to all, especially those most in need. Join us and help us drive impact through reimagining how we can deliver a people-centered healthcare experience and creating the solutions to do it. Explore career opportunities across our ministry locations and within our corporate headquarters.

Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of over 134,000 associates and 2,600 sites of care, including more than 140 hospitals and 40 senior living communities in 19 states.

Our Mission, Vision and Values encompass everything we do at Ascension. Every associate is empowered to give back, volunteer and make a positive impact in their community. Ascension careers are more than jobs; they are opportunities to enhance your life and the lives of the people around you.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Ascension will provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, genetic information, carrier status or any other legally protected status or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

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As a military friendly organization, Ascension promotes career flexibility and offers many benefits to help support the well-being of our military families, spouses, veterans and reservists. Our associates are empowered to apply their military experience and unique perspective to their civilian career with Ascension.

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