Senior Consultant, Quality Improvement Management & Client Success (VBC & Population Health)

About the role

Sellers Dorsey is a healthcare impact strategy firm dedicated to enhancing care access, quality, and outcomes for underserved communities. Our team includes former state Medicaid directors, healthcare policy experts, health plan executives, and hospital leaders who bring deep expertise to improve the healthcare system.

Key Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day work on traditional CMS quality/value-based care projects such as Directed Payment Programs, 105 Quality initiatives, workforce initiatives and others, including development of quality components and documentation aligned to CMS requirements and state expectations.

• Prepare and deliver internal and client-facing presentations and materials that explain quality processes, policy context, program impact and project progress in accessible terms.

• Agregate and analyze quality and population health data (including claims/encounters) to assess performance, identify gaps, and inform recommendations.

• Contribute to measure selection, target setting, measure definition documents, reporting templates, dashboards, and evaluation summaries that demonstrate program impact.

• Assist in designing and operationalizing gap-closure workflows, risk stratification, and care management processes that complement financing and quality program goals.

• Translate analytic findings into practical action steps for clinical and operational teams.

• Monitor state and federal policy developments and CMS quality guidance, synthesizing implications for CMS financed programs (DPPs, 105s) and quality/population health scopes; brief project teams and clients.

• Partner with internal teams in a matrixed environment to scope analytics, define data requirements, interpret outputs, and produce integrated deliverables.

• Support Constyn onboarding and workflows (e.g., dashboard interpretation, cohort/risk views, performance reporting); provide voice-of-client feedback to enhance product utility.

• Support firmwide strategic initiatives, tool development, and cross-department projects; perform additional responsibilities consistent with the role’s scope and expertise.

• Contribute to internal training and team knowledge assets.

Key Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required (Public Policy, Public Administration, Public Health, Health Administration or related).
• Advanced degree preferred or additional relevant experience in lieu of an advanced degree.
• CPHQ Preferred.
• 5–10 years in healthcare quality improvement, quality measurement, and/or healthcare consulting/operations.
• Experience with value-based care models, pay for performance programs and experience supporting quality improvement/population health initiatives (gap closure, risk/care management, claims/encounter data).
• Knowledge of quality measures across payers (e.g., NCQA HEDIS, CMS Core Sets) and comfort interpreting analytic outputs to inform recommendations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to translate complex policy and analytics into practical guidance.
• Organization and multitasking across several projects; initiative with appropriate escalation; collaborates effectively in a matrixed environment; serves as a role model for junior colleagues.

Critical Professional Related Technical Skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Proficiency with Microsoft collaboration tools: SharePoint, Teams.
• Experience with business intelligence software (Tableau/Power BI), project management software (Smartsheet) or statistical software (R, SAS, SPSS) a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

The anticipated salary range for candidates is $96,000/year in our lowest geographic market range to up to $125,000/year. The final pay offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to the type and years of experience within the job, the type of years and experience within the industry, the candidate’s education, and the candidate’s market location. Typically, candidates are not hired near the top of the range and compensation decisions are made based upon Sellers Dorsey’s Total Compensation Policies & Guidelines.

The successful candidate will also be eligible to participate in our annual Corporate Incentive Plan (CIP) that can range to up to 9% of annual salary. Provided they meet all eligibility requirements under the applicable plan documents, the successful candidate (and their eligible dependents) will be eligible to enroll in group healthcare plans that offer medical, dental, and vision and for insurance plans offering short term disability, long term disability, and basic life. Employees are also able to enroll in Sellers Dorsey’s 401k plan provided they meet plan requirements.

Sellers Dorsey offers a Flexible Time Off that allows employees to use what they need. Additionally, we offer 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, paid time off for qualifying medical leave, and up to 12 weeks of combined paid parental and bonding leave.

The foregoing benefits and paid time off, including an employee’s eligibility therefore, will be controlled by applicable plan documents and Sellers Dorsey policy. This is intended to provide a general description of benefits and other compensation and is not a substitute for applicable plan documents or company policies.

Sellers Dorsey is an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at HumanResources@sellersdorsey.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address.

Sellers Dorsey maintains a Drug-Free workplace.