Job Description

Senior Consultant, Fiscal Strategy

Consulting, Technical Assistance

Rochester, NY [Remote]

PER DIEM, Nonexempt

Coordinated Care Services Inc (CCSI) seeks a talented Senior Consultant to contribute their expertise in providing essential business services to our provider organizations and customers. The Senior Consultant, Fiscal Strategy provides specialized consulting, technical assistance, and education to provider agencies, counties, membership organizations, and other organizations operating within New York State’s publicly funded service systems.

Drawing on more than 20 years of experience in New York State government finance, the Senior Consultant brings deep knowledge of state funding, policy priorities, regulatory requirements, and the financial realities of delivering publicly funded services. Areas of work may include behavioral health, housing, human services, special education, and other state and locally funded services.

The Senior Consultant helps customers understand and navigate complex funding environments, strengthen fiscal strategy, develop financially sound programs and service models, and make effective use of available public resources to meet community needs.

The Senior Consultant also serves as a resource to CCSI’s current business areas, bringing additional state-level fiscal and policy expertise to customer engagements and working closely with CCSI’s Director of Financial Services and other leaders on complex fiscal, program, and funding questions.

This position will initially operate on a per-diem basis through defined projects and engagements. The scope and volume of work will evolve as CCSI assesses customer needs, demand, and opportunities to build a sustainable portfolio of services.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

Fiscal Strategy and Technical Assistance

• Provide consultation on budgeting, claiming, reimbursement, contracting, procurement, financial analysis, and effective use of public funding.
• Help customers understand the financial implications of changes in state policy, regulation, funding, and reimbursement.
• Assess the financial and operational viability of existing or proposed programs and services.
• Help organizations identify fiscal or operational barriers and develop practical strategies to address them.
• Support organizations in aligning available funding with service needs and priorities.
• Help customers prepare for changes in the state and local funding environment.

Program and Service Model Development

• Support the development and refinement of programs and service models, bringing together fiscal, programmatic, policy, and regulatory considerations.
• Help organizations translate state priorities and funding opportunities into practical and financially sustainable approaches.
• Assess the fiscal implications of new programs, changes in service delivery, or new funding opportunities.
• Work across publicly funded service areas that may include behavioral health, housing, human services, and special education.

Education and Training

• Develop and deliver practical education for fiscal officers, program leaders, executives, and other professionals.
• Provide learning opportunities at introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels based on customer needs.
• Develop training related to areas such as CFRs, budgeting, claiming, reimbursement, contracting, procurement, program finance, and navigating New York State funding requirements.
• Contribute to learning collaboratives, regional sessions, executive education, and other shared learning approaches.
• Develop practical tools and resources that organizations can use in their day-to-day work.

Resource to CCSI

• Serve as a senior fiscal strategy resource to CCSI business areas when customer work involves complex state funding, fiscal, policy, regulatory, or program questions.
• Work closely with the Director of Financial Services as a thought partner and complementary source of expertise.
• Support CCSI teams in understanding how changes in New York State policy and funding may affect customers.
• Contribute specialized expertise to existing customer engagements when appropriate.
• Help identify and develop new consulting, technical assistance, and educational services in response to demonstrated customer needs.
• Other duties as assigned.

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

The Senior Consultant will work closely with CCSI’s CFO, Director of Financial Services, and leaders across CCSI’s business areas. The role is intended to complement and extend existing CCSI expertise rather than duplicate current functions.

The Senior Consultant may also work directly with customer executives, fiscal officers, program leaders, county officials, membership organizations, and other partners across New York State

Requirements

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelors Degree and more than 20 years of senior-level experience in New York State government finance, publicly funded services, program administration, or related work. see CCSI's equivalency chart
• Deep understanding of New York State funding, policy, regulatory, contracting, and reimbursement environments.
• Demonstrated experience working with publicly funded programs and services.
• Strong understanding of the relationship between fiscal strategy, program design, funding requirements, and service delivery.
• Ability to interpret complex fiscal, policy, and regulatory requirements and translate them into practical guidance.
• Experience working with government agencies, counties, provider organizations, and other partners within New York State.
• Experience providing consultation, technical assistance, education, or training to senior leaders and professionals.
• Strong analytical skills, judgment, and ability to work through complex financial and programmatic questions.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with CCSI leaders, staff, customers, and external partners.

Additional Requirements

• Satisfactory completion of all required background screenings.
• Participates as a member of the team in valuing individual differences and supporting one another’s opportunity to achieve their greatest potential.
• Recognizes and values diversity within the work environment. Participates as a member of the team in valuing individual differences and supporting one another’s opportunity to achieve their greatest potential.
• Culturally responsive to the population being served in the development, design, monitoring, evaluation and/or implementation of programs and services.
• Respects the confidential nature of all CCSI and CCSI customer information you are exposed to in the course of your work performance. Staff working directly with protected health information /electronically stored protected health information, personally identifiable information, and other patient/consumer/customer data, will abide by the specific procedures and policies outlined by CCSI’s Code of Conduct and CCSI’s Privacy and Security Policies, New York State regulations and Federal regulations.

We Are CCSI!

CCSI employs more than 500 talented, dedicated professionals who provide program management services, consulting, and operational support needed by local departments of mental health and social services, state agencies, community-based organizations, and school districts across New York State and beyond! Our mission, simply put, we help people and communities.

CCSI’s vision is to be an exceptional place for individuals to grow and build a career, while expanding our capacity to invest in communities. We do this by prioritizing employee voice and equity to ensure we protect employees from harm; provide connection and community; enable work-life harmony; foster mattering at work; and creating opportunities for growth and development.

We Can Offer You

• Market competitive compensation.
• An award-winning Wellness@Work and employee benefits program.
• An organization that is committed to racial equity and anti-racist practices.
• Continuous professional development opportunities.
• A voice in shaping CCSI’s ever-evolving diverse company culture.

CCSI does not accept inquiries from third-party recruiters or search agencies.

Coordinated Care Services, Inc (CCSI) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.