About Intrepid Ascent

Intrepid Ascent, a multi-disciplinary team of passionate experts, provides consulting services to drive community health transformation. We partner with health care and social service organizations to enhance connections through leveraging technology and enhancing overall coordination and collaboration. Our services support clients implementing innovative approaches to cross-sector relationships, including data sharing across teams, organizations, and sectors to better serve individuals and improve health outcomes. We offer competitive pay with excellent benefits and a strong company culture focused on long-term growth, collaboration, and positive social impact. We are headquartered in Berkeley, CA with a fully remote and distributed team across multiple states. Although this position is remote it does require the ability and willingness to travel to support client engagements up to 40% of total time on an annual basis. No relocation assistance is offered with this position. 

Job Overview

We seek a self-directed, reliable, energetic, and insightful person with a broad understanding of the health care and/or human service environment and a focus on change management, quality improvement, or human-centered design to serve in a full-time role as an Analyst. This role features intensive teamwork requiring exceptional collaboration skills – you will be supporting multiple projects at a time. You will be embedded with our teams of consultants and interact directly with clients, gaining experience in the fields of consulting, cross-sector coordination and collaboration, health, and human service data exchange, and health policy in the context of transformative changes taking place in today’s health care and human service industries.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Project Coordination: Serve as a member of Intrepid consulting teams on client engagements by coordinating activities for the team such as: helping to prepare and maintain project documents including meeting agendas, notes/minutes, presentations, reports, updating and maintaining project calendars, scheduling meetings, and assisting with project monitoring and reporting.
• Research and Analysis: Conduct research, analyze information, and contribute to the development of high-quality work products for our clients, such as assessments, presentations, and other documents including proposals for new business. Apply critical thinking skills to draw sound conclusions from information and various data sources.
• Client Interaction: Provide support to client teams by scheduling meetings and coordinating our work with guidance and/or direction from client teams, acting at all times with professionalism and efficiency.
• Professional Development: Develop skills toward higher-level consulting and project management with increasing levels of responsibility; learn about subject areas in our field, with the opportunity to begin specializing in one or more areas; engage in professional growth activities, such as reading industry material, attending conferences and educational events, and participating in online webinars and courses.
• Human-centered design and/or quality improvement: Apply human-centered design and/or quality improvement methodologies to supporting project teams and client engagements, including but not limited to supporting the development of engaging meetings, supporting external human-centered design and/or QI-focused sessions, and data analysis and tracking.

 Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with a healthcare, social work, or public health focus, preferred;
• 1-3 years of professional experience in a role directly associated with stakeholder engagement, human-centered design and/or quality improvement, project coordination, or analysis at a public health, health care, or social service organization, consulting firm, or other relevant experience;
• Experience structuring and facilitating inclusive, participatory meetings; 
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills with the ability to master new topics and ideas quickly;  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; interpersonal and collaborative skills; creative and strategic thinker with strong analytical skills; the ability to communicate privacy, security, and risk-related concepts to technical and non-technical audiences; persuasive, encouraging, motivating, and inspiring.

Experience that prepares you to thrive in this role

This is our ideal wish list, but most people don’t check every box on every job description. If you meet most of the criteria below and you’re excited about the opportunity and willing to learn, we’d love to hear from you.

• Previous experience in a consulting environment;
• An interest and understanding of public health and/or Medicaid programs;
• Experience with Human Centered Design concepts, Healthcare IT, and/or Community Health;
• Experience with Microsoft Office product suite, project management tools such as Wrike or Monday.com, and/or CRM tools;
• Data analysis experience in an academic, public health, or consulting environment.

 Who you will work with

• You will be a key member of the Consulting Services Delivery Team and a part of a highly collaborative interdisciplinary team.
• You will be a member of Intrepid Ascent’s ANCOOP Team.
• You will work with staff at our clients and partnering organizations.
• This position reports to a Senior Consultant role.

 Why we think you will like working here

• You will be part of a stellar team doing exciting work that makes a positive impact.
• Our company combines a strong culture of collaboration and mutual support with high expectations; we celebrate each other’s accomplishments!
• You want to work with a great team and have the skills to be a trusted colleague who embraces challenges, learns from mistakes, and grows with our company.
• We are dedicated to your growth and career development in the form of training, coaching, and mentoring, and cultivating your confidence and knowledge.
• Benefits include competitive pay, 401K, medical, dental, vision & life insurance for employees and their dependents covered at 100%, medical and dependent care Flexible Savings Accounts (FSAs).
• In addition, we offer flexible time off and are committed to work-life balance, flexibility in getting work done, and respecting and valuing the life you want to live. 
• Stipends for home office expenses. 
• We are dedicated to your growth and career development in the form of training, coaching, and mentoring, and cultivating your confidence and knowledge.
• The salary band for this position is $70,000 - 90,000 annually

To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered. 

Equal Employment Opportunity

Intrepid Ascent is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with physical and/or mental disabilities. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified candidates without regard to actual or perceived race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, age, sex (including childbirth, breastfeeding, pregnancy, and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, HIV-status, natural hair, genetic information or testing, domestic violence/sexual assault/ stalking victim status, and all other bases protected by federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.