Reports To: Health Director and Tribal Council
Department: Health Services
Salary Range: $75,000
Drug Free Workplace: The Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation is a drug-free workplace. All employees are subject to random drug screen.
Status: Salary
Classification: Full Time (1.0 FTE) w/ benefits
Initial Term: 1 year, with potential continuation for up to 5 years
Location: Ogden, UT
Closing Date: UNTIL POSITION FILLED
Background Check: All employees must be able to pass a background check per the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation.
Reports To: Health Director
Position Summary
The Project Director provides overall leadership, coordination, and implementation oversight for the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) New Models of Care project. The position is responsible for ensuring that project activities are implemented according to the approved work plan, budget, timeline, grant requirements, and organizational priorities.
The Project Director leads the interdisciplinary project team and coordinates with clinical leadership, Community Health Workers, care-management staff, Tribal leadership, healthcare providers, community partners, vendors, and other stakeholders. The position ensures that the Specialized Role and Care Team Integration model is implemented effectively, measured consistently, and positioned for long-term sustainability.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Grant and Project Coordination
- Direct day-to-day implementation of the New Models of Care project and maintain alignment with the approved scope of work, objectives, milestones, and budget.
- Develop and maintain the project work plan, implementation schedule, performance targets, risk log, and corrective-action plans.
- Supervise and coordinate project staff and ensure appropriate role clarity, workload distribution, training, and performance expectations.
- Coordinate implementation of Community Health Worker, care coordination, referral management, and multidisciplinary care-team workflows.
- Work with clinical leadership to ensure appropriate clinical oversight, escalation pathways, and scope-of-practice requirements.
- Coordinate with healthcare providers, behavioral health, dental, public health, Tribal programs, community organizations, and other partners.
- Develop and maintain project partnerships, MOUs, referral pathways, and operational agreements.
- Monitor project expenditures and work with finance and administrative staff to ensure appropriate use of grant funds.
- Coordinate required grant reporting, reimbursement documentation, performance reporting, and compliance activities.
- Monitor project performance measures and use data to identify barriers, improve workflows, and support continuous quality improvement.
- Lead regular project meetings, multidisciplinary team meetings, and partner coordination activities.
- Prepare regular updates for the Health Director, Health Board, Tribal leadership, and grant administrators.
- Ensure appropriate privacy, security, documentation, consent, and regulatory requirements are incorporated into project operations.
- Lead sustainability planning, including identification of reimbursement opportunities, Tribal funding, partnerships, and other long-term support.
- Support evaluation and development of a scalability/replication playbook documenting project processes, lessons learned, and best practices.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Knowledge of rural healthcare access challenges and barriers experienced by underserved populations.
- Ability to work effectively with Tribal members, healthcare providers, community partners, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong organizational, administrative, communication, and project coordination skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, maintain accurate records, and meet deadlines.
- Proficiency with computers, electronic health records, Microsoft Office, telehealth platforms, and other digital technologies.
- Ability to teach individuals with varying levels of digital literacy in a patient, respectful, and culturally responsive manner.
- Ability to protect confidential patient, financial, and grant information and follow applicable privacy and security requirements.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to independently identify and address operational barriers.
- Ability to collect, track, analyze, and report project performance data.
- Demonstrated ability to establish positive relationships and work collaboratively with internal and external partners.
Standards of Conduct
- Consistently exhibit professional behavior and the high degree of integrity and impartiality appropriate to the responsible and confidential nature of the position.
- Effectively plan, organize workload, and schedule time to meet workload demands.
- Maintain a clean and well-organized office environment.
- Exercise judgment and initiative in performance of duties and responsibilities.
- Work in a cooperative manner with all levels of management and with all NWBSN staff.
- Treat NWBSN delegates/alternates and Tribal people with dignity and respect and show consideration by communicating effectively.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration, public health, business, social services, or related field required; master’s degree preferred.
- Experience in healthcare, rural health, Tribal health, program management, grant administration, or a related field.
- Demonstrated project management and organizational skills.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary teams and community partnerships.
- Knowledge of rural healthcare access and care-coordination challenges preferred.
- Strong written, verbal, analytical, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, budgets, deadlines, and reporting requirements.
- Experience with grant-funded programs and performance measurement preferred.
Physical and Work Requirements
- Ability to work in an office, healthcare, community, and outreach environment.
- Ability to travel within the service area to support community outreach, partner meetings, and patient services as needed.
- Ability to work with patients who may have limited technology access, digital literacy, transportation, or other barriers to healthcare.
- May require occasional evening or community-based activities to support project outreach and engagement.
Position Impact
This position integrates grant/project coordination and direct digital navigation into one full-time role, creating a direct connection between project administration and the people the LIFT grant is intended to serve. The position will help ensure that grant resources are properly managed and documented while also providing hands-on assistance that enables Tribal members to access telehealth, remote patient monitoring, and other digital healthcare services.
The LIFT Project Coordinator & Digital Navigator will support successful implementation, strengthen coordination among partners, reduce technology-related barriers, improve patient engagement, and contribute to sustainable improvements in healthcare access for Tribal members living in rural communities.
Tribal Preference
The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation is committed to supporting employment opportunities for Native American and Tribal communities. Preference will be given to qualified enrolled members of federally recognized Tribes, consistent with applicable Tribal employment policies and law.
Candidates with experience working with Tribal communities, rural populations, healthcare navigation, digital health, telehealth, or community-based services are strongly encouraged to apply. All applicants will be considered based on their qualifications, experience, and ability to successfully perform the essential functions of the position, subject to applicable Tribal preference requirements.
Funding: This position is funded through the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through the State of Utah. The position is grant-funded for an initial one-year term, with the potential for continuation for up to five years, subject to continued grant funding, project requirements, performance, and successful sustainability efforts.
Federal Funding Disclosure: This project is supported by the Rural Health Transformation Program, administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through an award to the State of Utah.
Applicants must agree to serve a minimum three-month probationary period during which time their employment can be terminated at will.
Typical Physical Activity:
Constantly requires the ability to receive detailed information through oral communications, and to make fine discrimination in sound. Constantly requires verbally expressing or exchanging ideas or important instructions accurately, loudly, or quickly. Constantly requires working with fingers rather than the whole hand or arm. Constantly requires repetitive movement of the wrists, hands and/or fingers. Often requires walking or moving about to accomplish tasks. Constantly requires standing and/or sitting for sustained periods of time. Constantly requires use of a computer, keyboard, and mouse. Occasionally requires ascending or descending stairs or ramps using feet and legs and/or hand and arms. Occasionally requires stooping which entails the use of the lower extremities and back muscles. Infrequently requires crouching.
Typical Environmental Conditions:
The worker is frequently subject to inside environmental conditions which provide protection from weather conditions, but not necessarily from temperature changes, and is occasionally subject to outside environmental conditions.
Please submit your application and questions to:
Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation
Attn: HR Department/Tribal Council
2575 Commerce Way
Ogden, UT 84401
435.734.2286
or email mrichards@nwbshoshone.com