Quality Improvement Analyst II - Quality and Operations Excellence

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

1d • Remote

About The Position

The Health System Quality Improvement Analyst II (QIA II) is an intermediate-level analytics professional who plays a key role in advancing clinical and non-clinical quality improvement and operational excellence across the health system. Partnering closely with physicians, nurses, and healthcare leaders, the QIA II ensures that data insights reflect real-world clinical and non-clinical workflows, regulatory requirements, patient safety priorities, and quality performance standards.
Working under general supervision, the QIA II supports the design, development, and delivery of system-wide quality and operational performance analytics. The analyst produces reports, dashboards, analyses, and other data-driven resources that directly inform clinical decision-making and performance improvement initiatives.
This role contributes to organizational analytics by working with large and complex healthcare datasets and translating findings into clear, actionable insights for both clinical and non-clinical stakeholders. The position requires proficiency in, or the ability to learn, Microsoft SQL Server, experience with data visualization tools, and strong collaboration skills within interdisciplinary healthcare teams.
Work is primarily remote, with periodic on-campus presence required based on departmental and operational needs.

Requirements

• Associate's Degree in healthcare, computer science, nursing, or mathematics
• 2 years of relevant experience.
• Equivalent years of work experience may substitute for educational requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and automate clinical quality and performance metrics. Maintain knowledge base of data requirements and measure definitions.
• Serve as a content expert for clinical quality measures by keeping current with national healthcare quality program guidelines.
• Implements analytic approaches and technical methodology under supervision; executes work plan tasks as assigned.
• Uses judgement to distinguish relevant from irrelevant information.
• Uses factual data to produce and deliver credible and understandable reports.
• Participate on multi-disciplinary teams and provide comprehensive analytical support for clinical performance improvement initiatives.
• Extract, validate and summarize data from different large databases using data management and querying skills.
• Analyze and organize data using appropriate analytical and statistical methods to efficiently track clinical processes and outcomes.
• Assist in the interpretation of data to identify opportunities for improved healthcare delivery.
• Participate in special projects as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100%25 coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree