About this role
Overview
This position serves as a strategic legal resource, partnering with Northwest Permanente attorneys and organizational leaders to support litigation, contracts, regulatory compliance, employment matters, and policy development. The role operates with significant autonomy, managing complex legal and operational issues while safeguarding highly sensitive and privileged information. Success in this position requires sound judgment, strong business acumen, and the ability to influence outcomes across a diverse healthcare environment.
Major Responsibilities
- Partner with attorneys, leaders, and cross-functional teams to address legal, regulatory, compliance, and operational matters.
- Manage litigation support activities, including coordination with outside counsel, case administration, document production, and legal responses.
- Draft, review, negotiate, and administer contracts and other legal agreements, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and regulatory requirements.
- Provide legal and operational support related to employment, healthcare regulatory, and business matters.
- Conduct legal and regulatory research; prepare analyses, recommendations, and executive-level communications.
- Support regulatory audits, investigations, accreditation activities, and responses to governmental or legal inquiries.
- Monitor changes in applicable laws and regulations and facilitate implementation of required organizational updates.
- Lead and support cross-functional initiatives involving legal risk management, compliance, policy development, and process improvement.
- Maintain the highest standards of confidentiality, professionalism, and ethical conduct.
Minimum Qualifications
- Seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience as a paralegal or legal professional in a law firm, corporate legal department, or comparable environment.
- Five (5) years of experience in healthcare, health insurance, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical technology, or other highly regulated industries.
- Demonstrated knowledge of legal, regulatory, and compliance frameworks applicable to healthcare organizations.
- Proven ability to interpret and apply complex laws, regulations, accreditation standards, and organizational policies.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and project management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to build effective partnerships and influence outcomes across all levels of an organization.
- Sound judgment, discretion, and experience managing highly confidential information.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Ten (10) years of progressive experience in healthcare legal, compliance, regulatory affairs, government affairs, or healthcare operations.
- Experience leading complex negotiations, dispute resolution efforts, or significant policy and process initiatives.
- Juris Doctor (JD), Paralegal Certificate, or other advanced legal credential.
- Demonstrated leadership in process improvement, operational excellence, project management, and organizational change.
For more information about this position, contact Courtney Johnson, [email protected]. About Northwest Permanente: We are the Permanente in Kaiser Permanente. Northwest Permanente is a self-governed, multi-specialty group of 1,500 physicians, clinicians, and administrative professionals caring for more than 600,000 members in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Together with Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, we form Kaiser Permanente of the Northwest, an integrated health care program. Kaiser Permanente is one of the nation's pre-eminent health care systems, a benchmark for comprehensive, integrated, value-based, and high-quality care.Our Northwest Permanente administrative professionals enjoy a wide range of company sponsored benefits:
- 15% employer contribution to retirement programs, including pension.
- 90% employer-paid health plan
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Child Care Benefits
- Flexible Work Schedules
- Paid Parental Leave
- Self-Care Days + Paid Time Off
Equal Opportunity Employer Northwest Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.