Policy Director, National Medicaid Advocacy and Thought Leadership - Remote

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How we are able to serve and engage our members is governed largely by the role of public policy. By joining a team of policy experts as the Policy Director, National Medicaid Advocacy & Thought Leadership, you have the opportunity to engage in a fast paced, evolving and engaging area of health care. Our team works closely with health plans, functional partners and our government affairs colleagues to inform the broader business of emerging policy trends, establish policy positioning, build influence through advocacy and thought leadership, and support sustainable growth.

As a Policy Director, National Medicaid Advocacy & Thought Leadership, you would serve as a subject matter expert with health plans, functional teams, and external partners to provide needed policy expertise, consultation and collateral on issues pertaining to Medicaid, managed care functions, emerging trends, and national and market-specific advocacy priorities. You would be accountable for developing and supporting the implementation of advocacy strategies, fostering partnerships, and helping to translate policy trends into sustainable business practices. You will also serve as a bridge to connect the deep policy and business insights with the expertise and experience of our B2B marketing influence team to develop content and strategic partnership evaluation and tracking.

For this role, advocacy includes the creation of thought leadership content to support UnitedHealthcare Community & State's role as a trusted advisor. This will include policy recommendations, white papers, advocacy documents, presentations, and other ad hoc content on emerging trends and best practices to inform state and federal policies and support business growth.

The person in this role must have a deep passion and affinity for Medicaid policy and cultivating external partnerships and be a solid, concise communicator. The individual should also be acutely aware of the needs of diverse audiences internally and externally and adjust messaging accordingly. This individual must also be effective at synthesizing complex policies and concepts into meaningful messages and actions.
The Policy Director, National Medicaid Advocacy & Thought Leadership must also be skilled at building relationships and coalitions both internal to the business and externally. This individual will be a critical member of a national growth team bringing policy expertise and insights to health plan and business operations, competitive and organic growth activities, influence campaigns.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Monitor external environment for policy progress and predictions in Medicaid and offer insights to inform growth and sustainable business operations
• Create thought leadership content to support proactive role as trusted advisor, including:
  
  
  
  • Develop policy positioning to strengthen collaboration between managed care and providers, evolve health care delivery models, and improve the health and wellbeing of Medicaid members and communities.
  • Create content on emerging trends and their implications for Medicaid and UnitedHealthcare Community & State
  • Establish and manage national partnerships to identify, develop, and disseminate innovations and best practices
  • Organize and participate in forums with government and regulatory officials to review business activities and potential policy changes that may affect the organization.
  • Coordinate dissemination of the organization's positioning and thought leadership through special events, public speaking, and influence campaigns.
  
  
  
  
• Serve as SME for health plans and national teams as needed to provide policy expertise and be responsive to state and business needs, including:
  
  
  
  • Participate in internal efforts related to strategic planning, program and product development, business operations
  • Support RFI content to effectively shape program design
  • Produce ad hoc policy/position documents as needed
  • Represent the organization's interests in coalitions, at meetings with policymakers, and in the development of procurements, regulations and program design.
  
  
  
  
• Engage in ad hoc research, policy or thought leadership development

General Job Profile:

• Company thought leader
• Functional SME
• Resource to senior leadership
• Develops pioneering approaches to emerging industry trends that strengthen the capabilities of managed care and providers to collaboratively deliver comprehensive, unbiased care that meets the individual needs of Medicaid members

Job Scope and Guidelines:

• Possess a solid awareness of Medicaid policy trends to allow for strategic decision making necessary to navigate engagement with organizational leaders internally and externally
• Search for and secure opportunities to highlight organizational capabilities, policy objectives, and leaders through panels, presentations, webinars, etc.
• Partner with B2B marketing on thought leadership content development, conference planning and participation and white-paper development in partnership with national policy and business SMEs in a manner that aligns with key business objects
• Evaluate and make recommendations for strategic investments including partnerships and sponsorships
• Monitor budget and evaluation of investments in sponsorships, partnerships, and research
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to conduct research and develop position papers, social media content, etc. to ensure external presence
• Maintain relationships with Communication Teams, Regional Marketing Teams and Policy Leaders to ensure content calendar aligns with organizational priorities and proactively identifies and communicates areas of needed content or opportunity
• Responsible for establishing tracking and coordination tools that support transparency, evaluation and coordination of: Partnerships, Conferences, Speakers Bureau, Content Calendar
• Support C&S Communications team on executive presence requests requiring policy talking points and insights
• Lead large, complex projects related to policy, advocacy and influence to achieve key business objectives
• Convene stakeholders as well as expertise in developing and maintaining formal and informal external partnerships
• Translate highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences
• Influence senior leadership to adopt new ideas, products, and/or approaches
• Direct cross-functional and/or cross-segment teams

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with Medicaid policy and / or business strategy experience
• Experience with professional writing
• Intermediate or higher level of proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint
• Proven ability to translate highly complex research or concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences.
• Proven excellent written and oral communications skills
• Proven personal integrity and able to think strategically

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in public policy, advocacy/lobbying
• Experience in public relations and/or business to business marketing
• Experience working as a consultant supporting Medicaid or health system business needs
• Experience working on issues related to Medicaid, Medicare, healthcare or underserved populations

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

The salary range for this role is $124,500 to $239,400 annually based on full-time employment. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.