Healthcare Planner I & II, Chicago
The Innova Group is searching for ambitious, career minded, curious and inquisitive professionals, with an aptitude for learning, to join our team. These professionals will support all aspects of the firm’s consulting services, which include but are not limited to: Clinical Planning and Strategy as well as Capital Planning and Strategy. The work may include the organization, analytics and understanding of healthcare service areas, population demographics, service line demand, operational and financial models, regional service delivery, functional programming, facility master planning, design assist and budgeting. The most successful candidate will have and demonstrate diverse skills and experience with a blend of data science, medical economics, graphic communication, health care system understanding, facility planning, and storytelling.
The Innova Group is a Healthcare Planning Consultancy with offices and staff in Austin, Boston, Charleston, Charlotte, Chicago, Colorado Springs, Dallas, Minneapolis, Nashville, and Tucson. Since 1995, our multidisciplinary team have been developing innovative strategic capital investment solutions for healthcare systems, both nationally and overseas. We offer a small, entrepreneurial team culture with direct leadership mentoring, training, and involvement.
Our work revolves around strategic capital investment planning for health care systems. These efforts ensure facility projects meet the strategic, financial, and operational goals of the organization— setting the table for architectural design and real estate acquisition processes. The Innova Group provides these services to large private systems such as Kaiser Permanente and Providence, academic medical centers such as Yale New Haven Health, community hospitals, and public sector systems such as the Military Health Service, Indian Health Service, and Veterans Affairs.
These positions are entry level positions within the firm and offered salaries will be based on experience and qualifications. It is not expected that each candidate be able to address all aspects of the requested skills and experience, broad minded individuals with diverse skills though are desirable, multiple positions will be addressed with this job posting.
Salary Range
$60,000-100,000
Job Description
- Acquire, normalize, analyze, and maintain multi-sector data (patient/facility/physician)
- Analyze, forecast, and display findings to support project requirements
- Demonstrate growing expertise utilizing healthcare planning metrics and emerging trends to define operational requirements (space and staff)
- Support development of complete healthcare planning documentation for regional service delivery, functional programming, and facility master planning
- Provide 3d modeling and graphics support for healthcare facility and strategic planning activities
Qualifications Required
- Bachelor’s degree in one of the following programs: Healthcare, Business, Economics, Applied Mathematics, Architecture, GIS, or other data/analysis intensive major. Master’s or professional degree desirable.
- Problem seeker/problem solving skills
- Team player
- Ability to create/communicate relevant solutions to complex problems
Experience/Technical Skills Desired
- 1-2 years of healthcare experience in related Innova core sectors (healthcare strategy, operations, capital/facility planning)
- Data Management experience
- Healthcare Data Analysis experience (Decision Support / Finance / etc.)
- Graphics capability – able to portray data/analysis visually
- AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, Bluebeam experience
- MS Office: Outlook, Word, Power Point, and Excel (intermediate proficiency – Pivot tables, complex “if” statements, conditional formatting)
Complementary Skills and Knowledge
- Business Intelligence Tools
- Tableau
- Alteryx
- Power Bi
- SQL: intermediate to advanced proficiency
- GIS Experience (Data or Graphics Side)
Location/Benefits/Travel
These positions are being offered at our Chicago office located at 420 West Huron Street, Suite 300a Chicago, IL. 60654. We offer paid vacation, healthcare, healthcare savings account, 401K, and profit-sharing benefits. Travel is project based and variable but is typically less than 5 nights per month for this position.
Application Requirements
Please submit resumes with a cover letter to resumes@theinnovagroup.com
A cover letter is required and should clearly identify your career goal, your rationale for applying, a summary of your education and past work experience, and why you are a good fit for the position. Resumes submitted without cover letters will not be reviewed.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
- When attaching your resume and cover letter, please use following filename style: “last name_first name_resume.doc/pdf” and “last name_first name_cover.doc/pdf” (for example, if your name was Chris Miller and you were submitting a pdf file, your resume would be saved as “miller_chris_resume.pdf”, and your cover letter would be saved/submitted as “miller_chris_cover.pdf”.
- The Innova Group does not pay candidates for travel expenses associated with interviewing, unless otherwise indicated at the time of the initial phone interview.
