Analyst: Data & Policy

The company is a healthcare research and the company services firm changing how businesses, communities, and public programs serve complex populations. We deliver insight backed by original research and provide practical solutions for our clients and the families they serve. Our team includes nationally recognized experts across Medicare, Medicaid, long-term care, and provider delivery, and we bring an influential voice to efforts transforming health care.

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The Role

The company is seeking a high-performing Data and Policy Analyst to join our Data S trategy team. The team serves clients across payers, providers, states, investment firms , and philanthropies, spanning Medicare and Medicaid. In this role, you will design Medicare or Medicaid data analyses and translate complex results into understandable and actionable findings. You will balance multiple projects at once, such as a fast-paced market analysis and a long-term, detail-oriented research study.

What You’ll Do

Design and Run Analyses

• Conduct and help design advanced analyses (descriptive, evaluative, and financial) 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 for data analyses, including statistical analyses of complex survey data or analyses of large claims data files.

• Create financial models in Excel or R related to healthcare, policy, and business outcomes.

Translate Findings into Insight

• Create informative data visualizations and develop and tell clear stories that emerge from analysis.

• Communicate analysis findings and data considerations to project teams, clients, and other external audiences through publications and presentations.

• Translate data results into policy considerations and deliver data-backed recommendations to clients or colleagues.

Partner Across Teams

• Collaborate with teams across multiple projects and practices to plan and implement data analysis to inform clients' policy and business decisions.

• Help identify solutions for teams and clients across practices by contributing to discussions of policy analysis and data sources, methods, and analytic outputs.

• Plan and lead tasks within analytic-focused client projects, presenting plans and results to clients and internal teams.

What We're Looking For

• 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 the ability to translate 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, including the ability to work efficiently to produce accurate, high-quality deliverables.

• High level of initiative, quick learning ability, and resourcefulness, with the 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 Experience

• Proficiency with SAS programming or code review.

• Experience with Python programming or code review.

• Experience with data visualization in Tableau.

• Experience with Git or GitHub.

Why the company

At the company, you’ll have the chance to move fast, and work with a team of nationally recognized healthcare experts on high-impact projects, and develop skills that advance your career while making a difference in people’s lives.

How to Apply

Click the Apply button below and s ubmit a cover letter connecting your experiences to the required job responsibilities listed above (under “What You’ll Do”).

The company is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.