• Collaborate with communities to develop new state-designated rural health centers or improve existing centers. Work also includes conducting practice assessments to gauge an organization’s readiness to become a state-designated rural health center.
• Process and/or monitor contracts, amendments, contract budgets, contract scopes of work, performance measures, reimbursement requests, and other agreed upon deliverables within established ORH timeframes and according to the ORH monitoring plan.
• Provide technical assistance in the form of education, performance feedback, and monitoring to state-designated rural health centers and their boards of directors, CMS Rural Health Clinics, and other safety net healthcare sites to assist in meeting internal and external partners’ needs and grant goals through regular contact with sites/contractors.
• Assist with the development and maintenance of initiatives designed to increase access to health care, dental care, behavioral health services and/or prescription medications. This involves conducting needs assessments, evaluation of related data, grant writing, partnership development, and project monitoring.
• Assist the Program Manager in researching federal and state rules and regulations and public and private funders’ policies and procedural requirements for opportunities for financing healthcare services, eligibility criteria, coverage limitations and waiver options; analyzing the implications of these on project design strategies and products; and recommending options for consideration and project design.

About the Office of Rural Health:

The North Carolina Office of Rural Health (ORH) became the first State Office of Rural Health in the nation in 1973. The ORH was created to focus on the needs of rural and underserved communities and continues to empower communities and populations by developing strategies to improve quality and cost-effectiveness of health care for all. While ORH does not provide direct care, its programs support numerous health care safety net organizations throughout the state. Continued support and recurring funding for ORH strengthened North Carolina’s health care safety net infrastructure to ensure that all of the state’s medically vulnerable residents (Uninsured, Underinsured, Medicare and Medicaid) have access to affordable and appropriate high quality primary care. It is a conservative estimate that the State’s primary care safety net system serves 1.1 million vulnerable residents.

About the NC Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS):

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is one of the largest, most complex agencies in the state, and has approximately 17,000 employees. It is responsible for ensuring the health, safety, and well-being of all North Carolinians, providing human service needs for special populations including individuals who are deaf, blind, developmentally disabled and mentally ill, and helping poor North Carolinians achieve economic independence.

• Demonstrated experience providing clear communication verbally (including public speaking), and in writing (including technical documents including grant applications and RFAs). 
• Demonstrated knowledge of population health, value-based health care, and social drivers of health.
• Proven knowledge of insurance, operations, programs, policy, and procedure along with experience or insight into provider contracting and operations.
• Proven knowledge of the varieties of primary health care delivery systems and their operation; the principles of community organization; and/or the principles and practices of managed health care, particularly as applied to Medicaid programs.
• Demonstrated knowledge of contract monitoring, preferably in a healthcare or insurance environment.
• Proven experience establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with internal and external organizations, agencies, and individuals.

• Applicants seeking Veteran's Preference must attach a DD-214 Member-4 Form (Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty) to their applications.
• Applicants seeking National Guard Preference must attach a NGB 23A (RPAS) if they are a current member of the NC National Guard in good standing. If a former member of the NC National Guard, who served for at least 6 years and was discharged under honorable conditions, they must attach either a DD256 or NGB 22.
• If applicants earned college credit hours but did not complete a degree program, they must attach an unofficial transcript to each application to receive credit for this education.
• Applicants may be subject to a criminal background check. All candidates selected for positions considered "Positions of Trust" will be subject to a criminal background check.