Analyst, Data & Policy

Job Description:

  • Design and conduct advanced descriptive, evaluative, and financial analyses using Medicare and Medicaid administrative data, research files, and public data files
  • Draft analysis plans for programmers to implement
  • Perform quality-control reviews of R and SAS programming, including statistical analyses of complex survey data and large claims data files
  • Create healthcare, policy, and business outcome financial models in Excel or R
  • Create informative data visualizations and communicate clear stories from analysis
  • Communicate analysis findings and data considerations to project teams, clients, and external audiences through publications and presentations
  • Translate data results into policy considerations and deliver data-backed recommendations
  • Collaborate across teams and practices on analyses informing clients' policy and business decisions
  • Contribute to discussions of policy analysis, data sources, methods, and analytic outputs
  • Plan and lead tasks within analytic-focused client projects, presenting plans and results to clients and internal teams

Requirements:

  • Minimum 2 years of professional experience analyzing and helping to design analyses of complex Medicare or Medicaid datasets (claims, encounters, public use files, surveys) in healthcare policy or economics
  • Professional experience and advanced proficiency in R and Excel analysis
  • Experience writing and visualizing research results and translating complex ideas and findings into relevant insights for an intended audience, visually, verbally, and in writing
  • A graduate degree in economics, public policy, public health, epidemiology, statistics, mathematics, or another related field, or an undergraduate degree with equivalent work experience
  • Experience and ability to prioritize multiple high-priority, complex tasks with competing deadlines
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to produce accurate, high-quality deliverables efficiently
  • High level of initiative, quick learning ability, and resourcefulness
  • Ability to solve problems independently, pivot quickly based on client needs, and work with incomplete information
  • Ability to support teams' project work while raising risks, questions, and options to appropriate team members
  • Experience independently executing and presenting data analyses in a consulting environment or similar setting
  • Preferred: proficiency with SAS programming or code review
  • Preferred: experience with Python programming or code review
  • Preferred: experience with data visualization in Tableau
  • Preferred: experience with Git or GitHub

Benefits:

  • Opportunity to work with nationally recognized healthcare experts on high-impact projects
  • Skills development to advance your career
  • Opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives
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