How to hire a community health planning director

How to hire a community health planning director, step by step

Here's a step-by-step community health planning director hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a community health planning director job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new community health planning director
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   Before you start hiring a community health planning director, identify what type of worker you actually need. Certain positions might call for a full-time employee, while others can be done by a part-time worker or contractor.

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   Hiring the perfect community health planning director also involves considering the ideal background you'd like them to have. Depending on what industry or field they have experience in, they'll bring different skills to the job. It's also important to consider what levels of seniority and education the job requires and what kind of salary such a candidate would likely demand.

   Here's a comparison of community health planning director salaries for various roles:

   Type of Community Health Planning Director	Description	Hourly rate
   Community Health Planning Director	Health educators teach people about behaviors that promote wellness. They develop and implement strategies to improve the health of individuals and communities... Show more	$32-81
   Diabetes Educator	A Diabetes Educator helps improve the health condition of people who are at risk of developing diabetes. They collect patient data to monitor health status and manage the patients conditions.	$21-38
   Certified Diabetes Educator	A certified diabetes educator primarily works with patients diagnosed with prediabetes and diabetes to promote and educate them about necessary lifestyle changes and disease management strategies. As a certified diabetes educator, it is their responsibility to help patients understand their condition and how it will affect them, serve as a mentor in different self-care practices, suggest lifestyle and disease management plans, teach them about the different medication procedures and dietary needs, and coordinate other services when necessary.	$19-37

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Oversight
   • Public Health
   • Medicaid
   • Health Plan
   • Project Management
   • Data Collection
   • CMS
   • Primary Care
   • Health System
   • Program Development
   • Data Analysis
   • Strategic Direction
   • Chronic Disease
   • Community Outreach

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   Responsibilities:

   • Manage multiple patients, assessing ability to continue living independently or moving to higher acuity care.
   • Coordinate off site immunization clinics within the community.
   • Perform confidential investigations, supervise, and chart reviews to determine immunization status.
   • Provide clinical exercise physiology services and health/wellness counseling for family practice/sports medicine/orthopedics medical group effecting positive lifestyle changes in patients serve.
   • Develop and oversee tuberculosis and AIDS/HIV control efforts in civilian and prison populations in Russia.

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your community health planning director job description is a great way to entice the best and brightest candidates. A community health planning director salary can vary based on several factors:

   • Location. For example, community health planning directors' average salary in hawaii is 42% less than in new hampshire.
   • Seniority. Entry-level community health planning directors earn 60% less than senior-level community health planning directors.
   • Certifications. A community health planning director with a few certifications under their belt will likely demand a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for a prestigious company or an exciting start-up can make a huge difference in a community health planning director's salary.

   Average community health planning director salary

   $107,586yearly

   $51.72 hourly rate

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   Entry-level community health planning director salary

   $68,000 yearly salary

   Updated December 24, 2025

4. Writing a community health planning director job description

   A community health planning director job description should include a summary of the role, required skills, and a list of responsibilities. It's also good to include a salary range and the first name of the hiring manager. To help get you started, here's an example of a community health planning director job description:

   Community health planning director job description example

   Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, Executive Management, this position is responsible to drive Physician engagement, recruitment and contracting of all Providers. The Director works with the Independent Physician Association (IPA), Saint Agnes Medical Foundation (SAMF), and other community-based physician networks. This position will work to onboard and develop providers (primary care, specialty care, and ancillary) in their participation and growth as strategic participants in the network. The Director Provider Relations & Development will maintain mutually developed "IPA to Provider" approaches and strategies as required to achieve provider and membership satisfaction driving revenue growth targets. Along with the Director CVHP Operations, this position will set goals for contracting target increases, specific service level improvements and manage the quantitative and qualitative measurement of Provider engagement and commitment to the IPA and Central Valley Health Plan (CVHP).
   1. High School diploma or equivalent is required.
   
   2. Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
   
   3. Seven (7) years' experience managing care contracting and provider development is required.
   
   4. Valid California Driver's License (CDL) and mode of transportation to visit physician offices through the network area is required. Out of state candidates have three (3) months from the date of hire to present valid CDL.
   
   5. Extensive understanding of physician practice operations and associated performance metrics is required.
   
   6. Thorough Understanding in business development and healthcare strategy is required.
   
   7. Experience working with physicians and physician groups is required.
   
   8. Ability to successfully negotiate, build consensus and bring complicated deals to closure is required.
   
   9. Ability to interpret and convert contract language and identify areas impacting provider operation and implementation is required.
   
   10. Strong computer skills with Microsoft Suite are required.
   
   11. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are required.
   
   12. Strong quantitative/analytical skills are required.
   
   **Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**
   
   Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.
   
   Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

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5. Post your job

   There are a few common ways to find community health planning directors for your business:

   • Promoting internally or recruiting from your existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals from friends, family members, and current employees.
   • Attend job fairs at local colleges to meet candidates with the right educational background.
   • Use social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to recruit passive job-seekers.

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   • Use field-specific websites.
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6. Interview candidates

   Your first interview with community health planning director candidates should focus on their interest in the role and background experience. As the hiring process goes on, you can learn more about how they'd fit into the company culture in later rounds of interviews.

   You should also ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match the ideal candidate profile you developed earlier. Candidates good enough for the next step can complete the technical interview.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new community health planning director

   Once you've decided on a perfect community health planning director candidate, it's time to write an offer letter. In addition to salary, it should include benefits and perks available to the employee. Qualified candidates may be considered for other positions, so make sure your offer is competitive. Candidates may wish to negotiate. Once you've settled on the details, formalize your agreement with a contract.

   You should also follow up with applicants who don't get the job with an email letting them know that you've filled the position.

   After that, you can create an onboarding schedule for a new community health planning director. Human Resources and the hiring manager should complete Employee Action Forms. Human Resources should also ensure that onboarding paperwork is completed, including I-9s, benefits enrollment, federal and state tax forms, etc., and that new employee files are created.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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